Yeah 'Preview' worked fine. I always drop them in and do a final read through to catch as many errors last minute as possible. It was only when I clicked 'Post' (or 'Save' when I tried to modify) that I had an issue.
Weird?!?
Weird?!?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Colin YNWA on 18 March, 2024, 07:59:57 AMOh weird for some reason I can't post the entry. its certainly not longer than one's I've done before and has nothing I've not been able to add before , so just images and embedded URLS.
As I've already dragged this out I'll add a URL for the Google Doc for this one here and see if I can add it properly in a bit???
https://docs.google.com/document/d/106G-isLZb4OPgsKyShJ5_2qnhCTqn74b-ktGyiuCsUY/edit?usp=sharing
Quote from: Fortnight on 17 March, 2024, 09:14:44 AMIf you go looking you'll find a lot of stuff that's stylistically very far from what you're familiar with. Yet if you mostly hear music when it's pushed at you, it can give the impression that it's not much different now to what it was 60 years ago. Only the stuff that someone thinks will sell is marketed so widely that you'll hear it without trying to find it, and what sells is what the most people like. What most people like is what they already like, and so you get a long stream of just the same stuff with apparently very slow development.
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 16 March, 2024, 10:09:20 PMI do like that Live and Let Die song.
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 16 March, 2024, 10:09:20 PMI think Beatles is more comparable to those 60s comics people have mentioned. And with music maybe even more so than comics, it's all personal taste, how influential and important it is won't make you connect with it and love it. It does or it doesn't you know?
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 16 March, 2024, 08:44:52 PMI'm curious to hear about The Beatles being appraised off the pedestal like you mentioned! I've yet to get into them, and I've rarely heard anyone say anything less than lofty about them.
Quote from: BadlyDrawnKano on 15 March, 2024, 01:41:58 PMI think a certain amount of Moore's eighties work suffered from that, but it does vary a great deal (for me, at least). Like I love Halo Jones, D.R. & Quinch, Captain Britain and V For Vendetta, but there are parts of Swamp Thing, Miracleman and Watchmen which I found heavy going despite loving other aspects of them.
Quote from: broodblik on 14 March, 2024, 12:41:19 PMI have read Watchmen a few times but I still struggle to get it placed in my top 10. I cannot really put my finger to it and I might get "cancelled" here but I feel it is a bit overrated. The art as is always is top-notch from Gibbons
Quote from: Tjm86 on 14 March, 2024, 06:58:00 PMTo be honest I've always preferred V for Vendetta over Watchmen. The latter seems a bit pretentious at times, trying to do too much and be a bit too clever. V, on the other hand, is far more nuanced. Or maybe it is the way that it delves into the unsavoury aspects of the 'great and the good' of our nation. Peeling back the covers on the hypocrites who claim to be our moral arbiters. It also seems disturbingly prescient in the current climate.
Quote from: BadlyDrawnKano on 14 March, 2024, 09:55:59 PMI'm also intrigued as to what Colin's next entry is going to be, but I think the only thing that could really appal me is if it was Geoff Johns' Doomsday Clock!
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2024, 10:35:43 AMYou're too hard on yourself, Colin! I think a conservative but honorary position for Watchmen on anyone's personal ranking is pretty much the norm today.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2024, 10:35:43 AMThough I stand with you in the assessment though an excellent work in its own right, more than a little of its potency has been lost over the years, and I don't think Moore would disagree with anyone on that assessment.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2024, 10:35:43 AMI do, however, withhold the right to admonish you for this apparently equally scandalous next entry, whatever it may be!
Consider this a warning!
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 March, 2024, 09:41:32 AMI didn't realise this was in any kind of order. Won't hold that against you!
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 March, 2024, 09:41:32 AMI've never thought of Watchmen as The Beatles of comics, nor the Pink Floyd of comics, but the punk of comics. Not because of its aesthetic nor feel, but because I always reasoned its impact must have been far greater if you were 'there at the time'.
For me, today, it's one of those books I feel I kind of have to have in my comics library. It's foundational but also modern enough that I still care enough to read it from time to time. (By contrast, I don't – say – care about having early Marvel collections.) I probably need to give it another 'full' read at some point; but it's always been a series I've giving a respectful nod to rather than one I love.
Oddly, the same is true for me and punk. The vast majority of my music tastes start in the late 1970s. I don't care for much before that. But I also don't like much punk music. It was transformative and vital. But what I like is what it triggered, not what it did itself. Similar to Watchmen.