The Village Voice, November 23rd, 2005
PANEL DISCUSSION ABSOLUTE WATCHMEN By Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons DC, 464pp.,$75 Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and Cod was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone." Thus spake Rorschach, the terse, trench-coated heart of the classic 1987 graphic novel Watchmen. Rereieased in deluxe format on the eve of its 20th anniversary, Watchmen imagines a loose band of citizen crime fighters seeking to emulate superheroes. Rorschach, victim of a horrendous childhood, wears a black-and-white mask and rains vengeance on evildoers-incinerating a murderous k...
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