Saturday, March 7, 2009

List #35: 12 Favorite things about Watchmen (the book)

List #35: 12 Favorite things about Watchmen (the book)

1: "Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
2. "I leave it entirely in your hands" and the recurring visual of hands holding objects
3. The use of "All Along the Watchtower" in ch. X
4. The Veidt Method advertisement
5. Triptych panels
6. "Fearful" symmetry
7. The opening and closing zooms
8. Chapter 1, page 4, panels 4&6 (the Comedian's fall)
9. "Somebody has to save the world..."
10. The recurring visual motifs (Reflections, Circles, Clocks/watches, smilies, lenses/viewing-through-glass, symmetry, the 'splatter', hands holding things)
11. the multi-level meaning of the title (which does not specifically refer to any group of characters).
12."It'll happen today. I've seen signs"

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