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JakobVirgil  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club Update: Looks like the graphic novel Watchmen

I just finished the first book spoiler Rorschach not Niteowl is Batman/Miller and is a huge prick.





user-inactivated  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He's Ditko's The Question/Mr. A, from the Objectivist religious tract comics he made after he went nuts. There's a really funny issue of Dennis O'Neil's Question series where he reads Watchmen and concludes that Rorschach is, indeed, a huge prick.

JakobVirgil  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

maybe it is because there are really only 5 or six superheros?

user-inactivated  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's true, at least in a Joseph Cambell sort of way, but Rorschach's ranting has more to his being based on the Question than his being a superhero of the same type as Batman.

JakobVirgil  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe it is because the last Miller I read was this

of course I my reading has been cape free since this came out (my tv viewing has not been go Paul Dini.) but I find for easy classification

Manhattan is Superman

Rorschach is A or the question (but really Batman hehe)

Silk is Wonder Woman

Nite Owl is the Blue Beatle

I don't have a really good peg on who Ozy is.

humanodon  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh. Suddenly, I'm seeing Frank Miller in a different light.

user-inactivated  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't have a really good peg on who Ozy is.

The Shadow/Doctor Strange/Doc Savage? He'll have directly based on a Charlton character, because they all were, but I don't know which.

But Wikipedia to the rescue

user-inactivated  ·  3722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I remember that. I try to avoid anything he's written since Daredevil and Elektra.

Vaguely relevant