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David Dark & The Watchmen
by Jamie Wesson on Sun Sep 12 05:08:11 +0000 2004 in Unveiled Faces
I’m curious about D. Dark’s current take on The Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore. I remember that he was reading it in 1986 when he was working at The Brentwood Triple theater and he pressed it in my hands and really sold me on, what was then, a rather radical shift in the ideology of superheroes and the how comics could be something much more than they had been just a few years before then.
The Watchmen graphic novel was highly radical at the time, and I really wasn’t a particularly astute reader then. It probably was, in many ways, for me the beginning of a real loss of innocence for me. At the time, it wasn’t a very welcome, that loss. However, a loss of innocence if often a find of profound importance.
Looking back at how your life goes is very interesting, and sometimes you pin some important instances down. David’s enthusiam for The Watchmen was contagious, though, and although the years that followed were not the happiest in my life, they were certainly the most formative in forming my own approaches to living, philosophy, technology, friendship and relationships.
So, David, if you do catch this message, shoot me an email and we can argue about this whole God thing. ;)
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