I'm 37. The only quibble (if it really is a quibble, what I meant to be talking about is why I, personally, happened to read Cat's post a bit faster than I read most of her posts) is because I worked in comic book stores as The Watchman came out and it's considered established knowledge that it took forever, came in erratic dribs and drabs and the rumor was always that Moore asked for an extra issue or two to tidy things up and they didn't let him have it so he threw the ending together as best he could.
Since I, personally, take that as a given, the sentiments in the post happened not to be as compelling to me so I skimmed it on the first pass (and then read it twice more to try to see if dots were actually connecting the plots of the two works.
The presumption that I'd heard these thoughts before (and again, it wasn't merely my seething jealousy that I am now old an irrelevant (teasing) as much as it is that the info is readily available) and my own petty desires for an even greater understanding of why Moore is one of the few creators who consistently blows my doors off led to my sensing that this particular post wasn't going to advance my personal scholarship much.
[Interestingly, I agree with Cat on most of her points, I just wanted more on Moore. I also feel that rape has become shorthand in a way that renders it reductivist, but would posit that it was daring back then, an attempt to demyth the underwear perverts.]
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Date: 2009-02-17 02:37 pm (UTC)I'm 37. The only quibble
(if it really is a quibble, what I meant to be talking about is why I, personally, happened to read Cat's post a bit faster than I read most of her posts)
is because I worked in comic book stores as The Watchman came out and it's considered established knowledge that it took forever, came in erratic dribs and drabs and the rumor was always that Moore asked for an extra issue or two to tidy things up and they didn't let him have it so he threw the ending together as best he could.
Since I, personally, take that as a given, the sentiments in the post happened not to be as compelling to me so I skimmed it on the first pass (and then read it twice more to try to see if dots were actually connecting the plots of the two works.
The presumption that I'd heard these thoughts before (and again, it wasn't merely my seething jealousy that I am now old an irrelevant (teasing) as much as it is that the info is readily available) and my own petty desires for an even greater understanding of why Moore is one of the few creators who consistently blows my doors off led to my sensing that this particular post wasn't going to advance my personal scholarship much.
[Interestingly, I agree with Cat on most of her points, I just wanted more on Moore. I also feel that rape has become shorthand in a way that renders it reductivist, but would posit that it was daring back then, an attempt to demyth the underwear perverts.]