The movie took cyberfiction staples like those found in William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy and mashed them together with anime, wire-fu, postmodernism, metaphysics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations, and a torrent of other texts and contexts.
“The anger that I had when I first started meditating in 1974 lifted in two weeks. It kinda just went away.”
From mind-warping revisions of comic book heroes in All-Star Superman, Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis, to pop-cultural and philosophical exegeses like The Invisibles, The Filth and We3, brainiac graphic novelist Grant Morrison is a master of the Gordian-knot narrative.
But the dystopian comic blockbuster isn’t dead yet. Far from it.
I have been known to mash my science and scfi-fi before, usually because it is usually sci-fi that leads to sci in the first place. But give me a chance […]
Happy Friday the 13th! Now are you ready to be scared out of your underwear? Chris Cornell just made a crunk album. I am not kidding. That horror awaits you […]
But there is one wild card working in the Watchmen film’s favor, and it is a glaring one: The comic.
From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons borrowed from a stunning wealth of sources.
The slightly good news is that some of the music that made it into the film, but not the comic, didn’t make it to the soundtrack. The bad news? Some lousy songs made both the film and the soundtrack, but never made the comic at all.
If only it were that simple.
Back to Socal from snowy NorCal at last. Found some killer road and snowboarding music. This rocker from Dayton named Erika Wennerstrom and her band the Heartless Bastards. She is […]
Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is definitely a visionary comic. But is Watchmen director Zack Snyder a visionary filmmaker, just because he’s adaptating the seminal graphic novel for the […]
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Time sure flies when your life is changed. Thank the Big Bang for my daughter. Happy two years on Earth, my angel. Your mother and I love you forever.
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.
If Molina continues to impress like this, she’s going to demand her own terminology.
Be seeing you.
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
[Scott Thill, Morphizm] UPDATE: My fine fellow journos at the Huffington Post have syndicated this post there. Hop on, stir it up, spread the noise. “This disaster is not set […]
I feel like a jerk. I wrote a hopeful piece about Bill Richardson, president-elect Barack Obama’s selection for the Department of Commerce, for AlterNet. Sure, it was also about Richardson’s […]
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Let’s be real: Barack Obama can’t change the world on his own.
When acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons sat down to create epochal comic book series Watchmen with writer Alan Moore, neither had any idea what was to come.
What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]
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