>>92970645>Other works like Sandman or Cerebus have a scope, but are more eclectic (or disjointed, depending on your point of view) -- they weren't as carefully conceived as a single work (due to the tension between monthly serials and single volume books).Hear hear. Due respect to Gaiman and Sim especially Dave for (mostly) double teaming the writing and art so it fits perfectly instead of just accompanying the matter, for their achievement in character and narrative, and character and narrative development but the thing about Watchmen is its skill coupled with its succinctness.
It's like seeing a team play a season of back to back perfect games like it was just backyard practice to them.
Footage of the whole thing is played years after interesting and inspiring others since, some who have stepped up to imitate or attempt to exceed the performance but fall short in some area or another or just the brazen brevity of it.
I think to replicate and exceed Watchmen the whole squad has to be at a point where being on point is effortless.
The combined method of Moore, Gibbons and Higgins is a triple threat that others seek to knockdown or knockoff because everyone saw them knock it out of the park, and you can't knock that.
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