In retrospect, ‘Watchmen’ can be seen as a huge mistake. Sure, the storytelling was unprecedented, the art amazing, and the excesses (mostly) mitigated by the quality, but it also inspired decades of lesser stories that aped the style without substance. In many ways, the crash of the comics market in the 1990s traces back to it (and also ‘The Dark Knight Returns’) and the apocalyptic, overly dark tone of modern superhero films is its love-child. I’m still a fan of Moore & Gibbons work, though, which I cannot say about ‘Ruins’ or ‘Kingdom Come’, leading to today’s antecedent query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) had a friend disavow ‘The Crow’ because he disliked goth culture, but he was also a real jerk, so take that with a grain of salt, asking: What former favorites do you like a bit less after seeing other things that they inspired?
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The Dark Knight Returns. It was groundbreaking in its time but I’m getting really tired how every super hero has become Batman in that mold, including Batman himself. Maybe when we get new writers who didn’t read that book back in the day, we get something different.
I don’t know, it’s been so ubiquitous, we may get people homaging it because they saw it in the Snyder movies.
Or the Nolan movies.
Or the Burton movies.
Or really all the Batman since. :)