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...this year (nuff said)

Is that the symbol for the porn version?

Watch Men.

It's "Watchmen", not "the Watchmen".

It's "Watchmen", not "the Watchmen".

Ooooooooooooooooooh!



;)

fking yeh. I used to gnash my teeth at anyone who mention this title out of hand. Infact i thought it was my upbringing making, me really intolerant of people mispresenting a title, but when someone fucks up the Watchmen ?



It jarrs

you'll have to spell that one out nofuture, I don't get it

yours, not sure if he wants to get it,

Floyd

"Watch Men"

*Chortle*

Tulkas, you crack me up!!

***you'll have to spell that one out nofuture, I don't get it

yours, not sure if he wants to get it, **

Alan Moore, Lost Girls, sex etc.

"It's "Watchmen", not "the Watchmen".

Ooooooooooooooooooh! "

I quite enjoyed Alan Moores The LXG.

Hi s best effort was 'Hallo Jones'

Last night I administered an intense cousrse of self-flagellation.  

I hope this will make amends for my grevious error.

I think Doctor Quinch has to be his best stuff.



V

I was quite fond of T for The Vendetta.


And Albert Snozz.

here, is it proounced Skits or Skizzzz?

Well, the third series was definitely pronounced skIIIzz. Looking forward to skIVzz and skVzz myself

Shurely V 4 Vienetta is a teatime masterpiece.

'Black Dosser' sounds dodgy to me, racist stereotyping in comics we can well do without

Form Hell

tell me about it! I've just been applying for a green card so I know his pain


etc

I always thought that 'Dr Manhandle' was an odd name for a superhero.

Hmm, this talk of tweaked titles makes me a mashup of YouTube, Ridley Scott's Gladiator and misplaced vowels...

'On my order... unleash Hull!'




I'll get me coat.

If I understand you correctly you're asking what Watchmen might have been like *if* it had been produced and published this century.





Well for starters, can't imagine Pop Will Eat Itself would be releasing a single of the back of it now.


As an aside this reminded me of something I heard back then that still makes me smile.



"PWEI? So what's that then- French for PEPSI?"

Link: Riffs? Yeah!

grebo alert!! grebo alert!!

'Alan Moore knows the score' - classic! I said it before, but i'll say it again - in light of tame, piss-weak Britpop, it's a shame their name proved untrue. though i wasn't a massive grebo, i still have the large scar of a failed cheap tongue piercing.

"in light of tame, piss-weak Britpop, it's a shame their name proved untrue."

No, no - pop did indeed eat itself. Witness the endless stream of covers that employ either the gimmick of just keeping the chorus and replacing the rest with techno, or the other gimmick of adding two dozen rap verses in the middle.

Witness X-Factor, and the elevation of karaoke to a primetime light entertainment spot.

Witness the birth of New Rave. Elements of the past and elements of the future, combining to make something that's not as good as either.

It's the death of creativity. We're standing in the refuse tip of popular culture. No wonder PWEI were so nihilistic.

We're standing in the refuse tip of popular culture.

Ah, how Cicero echoes through the ages.  Or was it Aristophenes?  You see where I'm going with this.

I do indeed. Whenever the Jehovah's witnesses call at the door and tell me we're facing the End of the World, I always say we've been facing it for at least a thousand years, and probably more.

In the bitchy spirit of this thread, I feel compelled to point out that it isn't "Doctor Quinch" but "D.R. & Quinch". Two characters, with the D.R. standing for "Diminished Responsibility" (the excuse offered by Waldo Dobbs, being the characters real name).

Presumably, Dobbs & Quinch sounds too much like a firm of accountants.

***In the bitchy spirit of this thread, I feel compelled to point out that it isn't "Doctor Quinch" but "D.R. & Quinch". Two characters, with the D.R. standing for "Diminished Responsibility" (the excuse offered by Waldo Dobbs, being the characters real name). ***


Obviously not getiing the joke.

...but "V for Viennetta"'s OK?

I thought it was Doctor and Quinch?

Nope, D.R. and Quinch.

As in: Waldo "DR" Dobbs and his pal Earnest Quinch (at least, I think it's Earnest).

In any event, there is no doubt that the "D.R." are initials standing for Diminished Responsibility and that the title is therefore "Dee-Arr and Quinch".

I really think you should have a look at the beginnings of this thread to understand the spirit it's in. Not only isn't it Doctor and Quinch, but it also isn't Form Hell, or Hallo Jones either.
So what does the D.R. in The Enigmatic D.R.X. stand for? (couldn't resist it, sorry}

Doesn't Register

as in "The joke doesn't register..."

Is it true that Alan Moore stole the name Killing Joke from the band of the same name? The lazy beardy bastard!!!










;-D

Yeah. He also stole the idea behind the excellent movie LXG, and tried to pass off his own substandard version of it with a silly name to avoid copyright problems

The he took the perfectly servicable whodunnit of 'From Hell' and turned it into some longwinded dissection of the history of London, sanity and the human condition...

Where does this guy get off???

And another thing that gets my on my tits with Mr Moore. When I was a kid I read a comic called Warlord which featured a character called Marvellous man, years later I discover his names now Miraculous man.

In the name of the great snake god make your bloody mind up man!




KIMOTA!

And why he chose to write that treatise on The Legs of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I'll never know.

It wasn't as if their legs were the extraordinary bits of any of them!

surely your getting confused with the auto-biog of the table that will one day become a wooden stake: I am a leg-end?

and he also ripped off the book Superfolk -which is a minor masterpiece by the way- for no amount of plots, twists, and concepts for Watchmen, Miracleman, Lost Girls and all his other 80's superhero stuff. Still a genius though and Grant Morrison is still jealous.

And then there was the time he wrote a story about an alien that crashlands on Earth and has to rely on a local kid and their friends to protect him form the authorities before his people come back to get him, totally ripping off... oh.

I do have to admit to liking both books of Top of the Pops; the one that centres around a studio that houses superpowered Radio 1 DJs. The sequel 'Brux' and the prequel 'The 33 and a thirds' were good as well.

Dr X wouldn't like this one bit. (Does that sound a bit like a room name from Jet Set Willy to anyone else?)