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Originally Posted by elphenor
kinda, I more felt his abusive childhood, that made it plausible that he'd act that way
cuz if we're being real, someone that smart could have been graduating college by age 9 as actually happens irl
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So did you ever read Miracleman? I've been badgering these ignorant ****s on this site for years to read it and NO ONE has taken me up on it. You want the ultimate superhero deconstruction done perfectly the very first time, Miracleman is it. Watchmen was basically Moore building on the ideas of Miracleman to deconstruct American comic book history and 2000th century American history into one literate atom bomb of commentary. And in Watchmen he really only touched on the
pure superhero deconstructionism of Miracleman because he had explored it so thoroughly and so painfully in Miracleman that there wasn't anything left to explore without bringing those ideas to an even wider conceptual basis than he already had.
And Miracleman arguably did better what even Watchmen did on a conceptual level because Moore's conceptual reach on the former title was already so all-consuming. Watchmen is probably the better written and more sophisticated title, but Miracleman is pure and primal in a way that Watchmen is not.
God damn it, read Miracleman.