If Alan Moore had written The Watchmen...

[JayzusB.Christ]

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

[Dunk!]

Shurely V 4 Vienetta is a teatime masterpiece.

[JayzusB.Christ]

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

[johnnystress]

Form Hell

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


etc

[SamuelAWilkinson]

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

[davidbishop]

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.

[Bart Oliver]

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.

http://www.indiebar.it/images/pwei.jpg>

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

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txirj1vX_Ck" target="_blank">Riffs? Yeah!

[nofuture]

grebo alert!! grebo alert!!

[JayzusB.Christ]

'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.

[House of Usher]

"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.

[TordelBack]

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.

[House of Usher]

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.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

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.

[JOE SOAP]

***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.

[Noisybast]

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