{"id":1432,"date":"2010-08-12T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2021-06-17T06:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T12:35:32","slug":"1432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"But who will read the Watchmen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went yesterday from reading about the worst movie ever made to the best comic book ever made.<\/p>\n<p>I am of course, talking about &#8220;Sexdroids in Space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kidding.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just my personal favourite.<\/p>\n<p>No, I mean the Alan Moore written masterpiece &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;.\u00a0 I had heard people say it was good, etc, and so on, yadda yadda yadda, ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p>But since I&#8217;m not interested in fiction, I never bothered to care much about it.\u00a0 All I really knew is that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Moore is an uncompromising genius<\/li>\n<li>Watchmen contains some superhero dude who is blue and mostly naked<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s lots of violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I took a little trip down to Wikipedia and read up on just why it is considered to be the best there is.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll admit the story and presentation of the work are unparallelled.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually curious enough about the whole thing to want to read the comic book.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s even considering the fact that I consider the whole &#8220;dark, real life superhero&#8221; gimmick to be overplayed and thoroughly retardized at this late stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Batman_derp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1433\" title=\"Batman_derp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Batman_derp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Batman_derp.png 256w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Batman_derp-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only a fan of superheroes and comics inasmuch as there are sometimes fembots at hand.<\/p>\n<p>So, I might just buy a copy of Watchmen.\u00a0 Or I might not.\u00a0 I might forget all about it tomorrow.\u00a0 There are lots of fictional works I rightly should check out before I look into a coloured book with people wearing tights in it.<\/p>\n<p>(Alan Moore fans, please use the comment section for all hate mail and death threats.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Watchmenbabies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1434\" title=\"Watchmenbabies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Watchmenbabies-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Watchmenbabies-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Watchmenbabies.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went yesterday from reading about the worst movie ever made to the best comic book ever made. I am of course, talking about &#8220;Sexdroids in Space&#8221;. Kidding.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just my personal favourite. No, I mean the Alan Moore written masterpiece &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;.\u00a0 I had heard people say it was good, etc, and so on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,385,384],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-alan-moore","tag-comics","tag-watchmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11404,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}