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Similar to how now everyone I know is listening to Biggie, since the Notorious B.I.G film came out, pretending they've always been big fans.

Lawrence wrote:

Relish wrote:ive just started to read the graphic novel and its very good, £12 from HMV

about now is where some elitest comic geek jumps in and says something along the lines of "you're only reading it because there's a film of it!".

I love those guys

Actually, as an elitist comic geek I'm jumping up and down screaming 'I had to pay £50 for a hardback watchmen comic because it hadn't become popular and mass produced for H.fuckingM.V yet!'

And then all these people who wouldn't be caught dead reading comics five years ago are paying £10 for the privilege.

Gyaaaagh!

Well, you have got 5 years worth more of reading out of that than anyone else so that's got to be worth something!

I'm seeing it on IMAX too, yay! It looks awesome, can't wait.

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:

Lawrence wrote:

Relish wrote:ive just started to read the graphic novel and its very good, £12 from HMV

about now is where some elitest comic geek jumps in and says something along the lines of "you're only reading it because there's a film of it!".

I love those guys

Actually, as an elitist comic geek I'm jumping up and down screaming 'I had to pay £50 for a hardback watchmen comic because it hadn't become popular and mass produced for H.fuckingM.V yet!'

And then all these people who wouldn't be caught dead reading comics five years ago are paying £10 for the privilege.

Gyaaaagh!

Or something like that!

Yes... "graphic novel". Otherwise known as a "picture book"

I will be seeing this, although I'm not expecting incredible things - surely it's just going to be a big, sluggish, Hollywood CGI-fest?

Farlsborough wrote:Yes... "graphic novel". Otherwise known as a "picture book"

isnt that like saying "meh...doctors! all of them are just after the easy money and will prescribe anti-depressants as the quick fix..."

pictures can paint a thousand words don'tcha know...

I'm leaving my classes early thursday to drive nearly two hours to the nearest imax theatre for a midnight showing. Already have tickets.
I really hope this movie doesnt suck

I don't bother calling comics 'graphic novels', in my mind it just sounds like trying to justify something shameful.

I call them all comics and when someone say's they're for kids I throw 'From hell' at them and say 'Go on then, read it.'

But I don't mind about it being made into a movie. Of course it won't be as good as the comic, it can't be, there just isn't the time. But as long as the point of the comic comes across clearly, I don't mind. (I know, big of me isn't it? I bet Zach Snyder is thrilled.)

Although, come to think of it, a big part of me is still screaming 'They don't deserve it! They don't get to mock comics and marginalize us, then enjoy the greatest masterpiece of the genre without appreciating the original art form!
b******s! Damn thieving b******s!

If the film as half as good as the graphic novel, it will be quite superb. While I'm on, I would also highly recommend From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and Blankets by Craig Thompson. Blankets is something different to the usual superhero thing and very good.

greedoniz wrote:Sunday, at an IMAX sceen, painted blue, acting like God.

The usual then

Not, um, 'tackle out' I hope.

IAIN wrote:

Farlsborough wrote:Yes... "graphic novel". Otherwise known as a "picture book"

isnt that like saying "meh...doctors! all of them are just after the easy money and will prescribe anti-depressants as the quick fix..."

pictures can paint a thousand words don'tcha know...

It is precisely as true as that statement!

Pictures can indeed paint a thousand words, thus removing from the "reader" (or "looker", in the case of comics) the responsibility of imagining it all...

Hey, I love comics - got addicted to them a while back (X-Men mostly). I hear the Kama Sutra is a good one too.

the pop-up edition with scratch and sniff card is excellent...

So I hear... if you buy it from Amazon you get a free tub of royal jelly

Not 18 but still going to see it... Thursday at Midnight! Yay!