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How about the Comics Evangelist? This pretty much describes me, and why my friends give each other looks any time it looks like one of them might mention a comics-based movie, for fear I might start trying to get them in the scary comics cult. 

I'd love to be able to read other languages, simply because any time I've visited Belgium/France/Italy I've realised that there are huge comics scenes that are impenetrable to me. That being said, if they were translated to English I'd probably have to expend less effort, so... 

I have all the issues and paperbacks (although the first paperback doesn't have the prologue from the first comic and The Golden Age paperback doesn't have the back-up story from his issues). Honestly, I love this series. It treats the characters as real people with real motivations and has interesting things to say about the consequences of a benevolent dictatorship.  I really hope the...

Black Dossier definitely ISN'T volume three of LOEG - it's a source book. As soon as you read it you realise that it isn't the same thing as the regular series. 

@TNC Anyone who's serious about replicating the theatre experience at home knows that EVERYTHING looks better on Blu-Ray. Oh, and Zodiac looks spectacular - I suspect you've forgotten just how many shots of San Francisco at night there were! I have over 60 Blu-Rays and over 1000 DVDs, and I find it really hard to go back to watching DVDs since the experience seems less profound. I know, I'm an...

Garth is Northern Irish - some of us have a problem with him being claimed by the 'Irish' and the 'British'. He's from 10 minutes up the road from me! 

RE: the Graphic Novel thing. Graphic Books is a much better catch-all term, since a lot of great comics aren't novels, but non-fiction.   I'm thinking of Louis Riel, Lindbergh Baby, MF Grimm, just to mention some recent ones. Its the 'Graphic' bit that bothers me, to be honest, since to a lot of people that evokes notions of sex and violence, or, as Alan Moore put it, 'Tits and Innar...

I've read the book 2 or 3 times since 1991, so there's that... However, the film left me completely underwhelmed. I was fascinated by the acting out of scenes from the book, but seriously guys, if you think that they've filmed the unfilmable then you've seen a different movie to me. Lets start from scratch:  When Moore said it was unfilmable, he didn't mean the nuts and bolts story - t...

I just don't get why more people don't feel the way that I do - that Watchmen is first and foremost an exercise in what can be done in the medium of COMICS. To translate it to a movie is kind of missing the point, in that the reason it is such a classic is precisely because of what it achieves in Moore's chosen medium. I honestly believe that when it appears in theatres an awful lot of people...