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Watching the Watchmen

by Max Ross
posted on Nov. 13, 2008 - 11:57am

Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore might be the most successful villains in the history of comic books. In 1986 and 1987, as they published their epic serial The Watchmen, they essentially destroyed the notion of superheroes. The Watchmen - a group of six generally well-intentioned super-powered individuals - certainly have their own archetypal catastrophe to fight against, as New York is under siege from an alien threat.

He Wanted To Be “Really Evil.”

by Max Ross
posted on Sep. 24, 2007 - 12:00am

Ed Morrissey is terse, never letting a sentence extend beyond fourteen words. A typical example: “Shithead. You swing on me again, I’ll kill your sorry ass.” Ed Morrissey is garrulous—as political director at Blogtalk radio, he interviews some of the most prominent members of the conservative movement, his voice a slightly less nasal version of Wallace Shawn’s.
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