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Just picked it up. Mandroid and Buttonman - just a bit too long, and both not as good as their respective predecessors.
Have to say, I thought the Adolf and Eva punchline was genius. Has no-one ever spotted the similarity before? Nice work, fella. Especially when coupled with the second punchline of everybody alive being a child of Hitler. (It's bad enough that most European people are suppose to be descendants of Genghis Khan)

Is it the same actor? He looks well different. In Watchmen as Moloch, and all

Yeah, he's perfect. And yeah, I'm a geek, i did the finger check.

'Of course, Chief Judge Hershey took the long walk years earlier, following the Sino-Cit debacle caused by Mini-Kazan. Checkmate! '

Gordon Rennie wrote that. So it DIDN'T HAPPEN!

(Sorry, couldn't resist it)

I remember reading all this mad stuff about big prozzies and monsters fighting with a sheep at the end of the world, great stuff. Can't remember the name of it, 'The Big Book of Re-evaluations' or something, part of some big compilation of weird stories as far as i can remember. The last few stories got a bit boring, just some hippy bloke who ends up getting nailed to a tree

Nah, wouldn't bother with The Culled, mate, it's a sack of shit.

...only joking, Si, haven't actually got round to reading it yet.

Believe they've left out the most horribly violent part of all, am i right? I won't spoil it for those who haven't read the Gn but jesus wept it's horrendous

Is the film worth a look then? My housemate described it to me; it sounds very different from the graphic novel. I'm thinking of getting it out but i don't want to waste two hours if it's muck.

Now that Mr Moore is on my mind; I'll just mention the film. I can't understand why it was torn apart so much; either by Moore himself and by comic readers, such as the majority of boarders here, it seems.

I thought it was quite a good adaptation; there was a few parts that stretched credibility a bit but there were one or two that did so in the GN too. Anyway, I thought it was a brave move to  introduce a terrorist hero in these sensitive times, and thought they'd managed to get most of the gritty parts across accurately (unlike the poor effort at From Hell and, from what I'd heard though I've never seen it, LOEG too).
 
I await your barrage of bricks and stones

following on from the From Hell thread. Though i loved V for Vendetta, I'd prefer Watchmen and From Hell. Just can't make up my mind which one is better though. I liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but it Watchmen and From Hell were breathtaking; it's hard to imagine they'll ever be bettered.

'Dredd - Joe Pasqale '

Bastard. I was just about to say the same thing.  Of course, you could always get Frank Sidebottom to do it if Joe's unavailable

Hang on a minute. Something's just struck me. If Gull's aim was to magically help in the fight between male and female dominance, then what was he doing taking orders from and protecting the most powerful woman, and person, in the world? Sorry, i'm a comic reader, pedantic questions about already-vague theories are in the contract

It was a recent re-read of From Hell that got me started on this thread. You get more out of it the second time round. In fact i pretty much read it twice each go, checking back with the reference notes at the end.

Great article. Never thought of the Hawksmoor churches monologue chapter as boring myself, in fact it made me want to do that exact route in London and check them out for myself. A friend of mine, who'd just read From Hell, flew to London for exactly that purpose himself a few years back.  
Another friend of mine, incidentally, mentioned 'Ja-bul-on' to a Freemason workmate of his recently, and noticed visible panic in the guy's face.

Anyway, can't decide which is better: From Hell or Watchmen.

Cheers, I've just remembered that she took Abberline's money and disappeared. i'm kicking myself now for not realising sooner.