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boom! We now have official dates and the like

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@RealSlimCAvery

Oh god.

If terrible nods to future events is all we get out of these comics...

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Look! Up in the sky! A big steaming pile of shit will soon be landing on the heads of comic readers!

Nods to future events? Can we really call it that when it's such a vague statement?


We get it, man, you hate these comics.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Yes.
It's a neat device in giving the character and reader an understanding that the protagonist does not possess, except for the fact that it's fucking retarded.
Clearly Sally Jupiter was deliberately dropping hints all the time in the hope that her daughter would figure it out.
She says herself, page 29 of the last chapter, "I never wanted you to know".

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I hope that these are awesome just so your obnoxiousness gets drowned out by other people's praise of the books.

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

I wasn't under the impression that that's supposed to convey she knows Laurie'll find out about her father being the Comedian, but that it was just meant to be a philosophical statement about the world in general.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Still, it seems cheap that they're building on the events of the novel to have any sort of impact.

Imagine one of the characters in the Rorschach mini telling Rorschach:

"They day you decided not to compromise, the day you decide not to give in, that will be the day of your downfall".

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well Watchmen establishes the fact that time does not exist as we perceive it, as well as establishing that psychics exist, so it would not be against per-established laws within the Watchmen universe.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Tyger, Tyger/burning bright, In the forests/of the night, What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

Sure, but those things only fly for Manhattan, not for everyone else.

And personally, I thought the whole psychic thing was an elaborate justification for how a gigantic squid can be created.

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No those things still occur for everybody, but Manhattan can see it. Imagine the comic was a puppet show, just for the sake of metaphor, all the characters are puppets (even Doc). The difference is that Manhattan is a puppet that can see the strings.

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@RealSlimCAvery

exactly, and DM can see the strings perfectly, so it's possible that some humans, if in possession of extrasensory abilities, could possibly see them to a lesser degree, probably enough of a degree to make vague premonitions.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I can maybe agree with this, but for characters to seem like they are conscious of those abilities sounds a little dumb to me, specially characters like Sally (if it's her who said those lines).

I've dealt with this idea before when Moore said it in his documentary, about describing time not as a long line, but "as a football", it's very interesting, but when applied to these prequels, it seems like they are just trying to exploit dramatic payoff for something they didn't write.

If there's anything I'd like from the prequels, it's for them to stand on their own two feet.

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I think we might be getting a little defensive here, it's one line of dialogue in a solicit, it's unfair to judge several mini series on one line of dialogue.

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@RealSlimCAvery

*sigh*

Voicing expectations and concerns about a possible issue =/= Reacting deffensively + Judging the novels before release.

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I think some people here are doing a little more than just voicing a concern. Primarily AYB calling this fucking retarded and talking about how that's all we'll get, and, considering that we don't even know who said the dialogue or what it's about, I really feel like that was an over reaction.

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@RealSlimCAvery

i totally agree. Though I can see how some people would be super cautious.

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/12/so-will-before-watchmen-actually-be-like/

Yup, what I figured. Which is why I won't get within 100 feet of this garbage.

Everyone involved here is going to show Alan Moore how to do these characters by "making them their own". Yeah, right.