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49. Watchmen.
When news of this being’s phenomenal genesis was first released to the world,
a certain phrase was used that has—at varying times—been attributed both to me
and to others. On the newsflashes coming over our tvs on that fateful night,
one sentence was repeated over and over again: ‘The superman exists and he’s
American.’
I never said that.... I presume the remark was edited or toned down so
as not to offend public sensibilities.... What I said was ‘God exists and
he’s American.’
Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is an superhero comic about
time, history, power, and the threat of the Cold War. In other words, it’s
very 1980s. Chris and Suzanne reflect on their own experiences of the 1980s,
and they become particularly fascinated with Dr. Manhattan—a character who
experiences all of time at once, but also moves through time linearly. They
also consider the book’s reckoning of an apocalypse, its deeply intricate
formal construction, and what it means if these characters are kind of
unlikeable.
Show Notes.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Watchmen.
[Bookshop.]
In memoriam Lee Maracle.
A recent interview with Lee Maracle.
Our episode on Memory Serves and our
bonus episode talking with Lee Maracle about Great
Expectations.
Our episodes on Middlemarch and
Persepolis.
Jon Osterman (Dr. Manhattan)
disintegrating.
The shadows left by the nuclear bombing of
Hiroshima.
The Doomsday Clock.
Our episode on Orlando.
An example of the opening pages of Chapter
XII
(from this interesting page).
Chris’s other podcast.
Our episodes on Frankenstein and
Paradise Lost.
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
Richard McGuire:
Here. [Full book version.]
Christine Brooke-Rose: Subscript.
Next: The Hereford Mappa Mundi.
Support The Spouter-Inn and all of Megaphonic on
Patreon.
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By Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Chris Piuma
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When news of this being’s phenomenal genesis was first released to the world,
a certain phrase was used that has—at varying times—been attributed both to me
and to others. On the newsflashes coming over our tvs on that fateful night,
one sentence was repeated over and over again: ‘The superman exists and he’s
American.’
I never said that.... I presume the remark was edited or toned down so
as not to offend public sensibilities.... What I said was ‘God exists and
he’s American.’
Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is an superhero comic about
time, history, power, and the threat of the Cold War. In other words, it’s
very 1980s. Chris and Suzanne reflect on their own experiences of the 1980s,
and they become particularly fascinated with Dr. Manhattan—a character who
experiences all of time at once, but also moves through time linearly. They
also consider the book’s reckoning of an apocalypse, its deeply intricate
formal construction, and what it means if these characters are kind of
unlikeable.
Show Notes.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Watchmen.
[Bookshop.]
In memoriam Lee Maracle.
A recent interview with Lee Maracle.
Our episode on Memory Serves and our
bonus episode talking with Lee Maracle about Great
Expectations.
Our episodes on Middlemarch and
Persepolis.
Jon Osterman (Dr. Manhattan)
disintegrating.
The shadows left by the nuclear bombing of
Hiroshima.
The Doomsday Clock.
Our episode on Orlando.
An example of the opening pages of Chapter
XII
(from this interesting page).
Chris’s other podcast.
Our episodes on Frankenstein and
Paradise Lost.
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
Richard McGuire:
Here. [Full book version.]
Christine Brooke-Rose: Subscript.
Next: The Hereford Mappa Mundi.
Support The Spouter-Inn and all of Megaphonic on
Patreon.
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