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** Basically, after Watchmen came along, a huge portion of the comic book industry devoted itself to 'deconstructing' the superhero genre through a lot of gratuitous violence. Whether you like the [[Dark Age]] or not, it was missing the point. As gritty ultra-violence and malevolence became the norm for supeheroes, the best way to deconstruct comics ''again'' would be to go for something [[Lighter and Softer]]. Hence, the stuff which seems like an 'apology' from Moore is really just more of the same, with different pants on. I think the real source of disappointment here is that he hasn't made anything quite like Watchmen again since - but really, it's lightning in a bottle. You very often ''can't'' do something like Watchmen twice.
** Put yourself in Moore's shoes. How would you feel if everyone told you that book you wrote 25 years ago was your best work, even though you've been putting other books in the years since? Most people I know believe thier skills improve with age, and I'm sure Moore prefers his recent efforts to some of his first.
*** Maybe I'd try and, I don't know, make something original instead of doing adaptations of other peoples' work, and then getting mad when other people adapted my adaptations. But that's just me. (In other words, I don't feel his skills have improved with age, and he's just being petty. ''Watchmen'' was, after all, born out of his petty desire to destroy the characters of people he didn't particularly like and DC telling him that he couldn't, so he instead filed the serial numbers off.)
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== Adrian Veidt's Peccadillos (Book/Film) ==
* Why does Adrian Veidt ever embark upon a career as a costumed vigilante? It seems uncharacteristically naive that a man of Veidt's intelligence and erudition - especially one who idolizes an ancient military and world leader such as Alexander the Great - should ever consider crimebusting on such a relatively small scale as being worth his efforts. I can accept the Comedian having a better grasp of the human condition than Veidt, certainly, but not the global political situation and where it was heading.
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