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Bezig met laden... Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre (editie 2013)door Darwyn Cooke, Darwyn Cooke (Illustrator), Amanda Conner (Illustrator)
Informatie over het werkBefore Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre door Darwyn Cooke (Author)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Great prequels. Recommended for any Watchmen fans. ( ) Visit my blog, The Itinerant Librarian,/i> to read the full review. Just click the link: http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2013/08/booknote-before-watchmen-minuteme... By the way, I gave it 4.5 out of 5, but as we all know, no fractions here on GoodReads. This volume collects two of the Before Watchmen series that DC commissioned and published against the wishes of Watchmen author Alan Moore. The first series is the six-issue Minutemen, chronicling the WWII-era predecessors to the Watchmen, and the second is four numbers of Silk Spectre, with a story about Laurie Jupiter in the 1960s. Darwyn Cooke serves as auteur for Minutemen, both writing and drawing throughout, and he gets a co-writer credit on the Silk Spectre issues by Amanda Conner. I wasn't interested in the individual issues when they were on comic shop shelves about five years ago, but curiosity got the better of me when I saw this book at the public library. The opening of Minutemen is clever and effective. Cooke imitates Moore's portentous voice and the panel designs from Watchmen (i.e. stacked full-width panels, with a repeating geometric motif--in this case the centered circle that turns out to be a clock), only to pull the perspective back and reveal Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) frustrated with his own prose style as he composes his memoirs. That breaks the tension and assuages the anxiety of influence so that Cooke can get down to work telling a story that really does share the ethos of Watchmen in exploring the interactions of deeply flawed costumed vigilantes and their efforts to work together as a team. Cooke's visual characterizations are very different than those of Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons, but still suited to the material. I was not as pleased with the shorter Silk Spectre story. It has Laurie running away from home and going to San Francisco to fall in with the sixties counterculture. It cast Owsley Stanley as a villain, collaborating to use hallucinogenic mind-control to re-instill materialistic consumerism in hippies. Neither Laurie nor her mother Sally were especially likable characters--the general approach of highlighting their personal flaws seemed to backfire here. I did enjoy Amanda Conner's art, though. It has a polished 21st-century comics ambiance, and she did excellent work depicting the retro-psychedelic subject matter. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all time are finally here: Before Watchmen! For over twenty years, the backstories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing. Now, DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of Watchmen, starting with this volume starring Minutemen and Silk Spectre. The critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-winning creator of DC: The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke, lends his talents to Minutemen. As the predecessor to the Watchmen, the Minutemen were assembled to fight against a world that had more and more rapidly begun to spin out of control. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin? Silk Spectre takes an introspective look at the Watchmen feature-player's struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre. With gorgeous art by co-writer and illustrator Amanda Conner (Power Girl, The Pro), Silk Spectre takes a very different perspective at the world of Before Watchmen. Collects Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-6 and Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre # 1-4. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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