Most of us are riding in steerage

[learnedax]

Just finished reading Watchmen, long delayed. Darn you Alan Moore, darn you all to heck.

At least I can bug metahacker for most of the back catalog that I will now need to devour.

(Without spoilers: the style struck me as extremely cinematic, to the point where some panels looked like nothing so much as crossfades. The density of information also seemed like an occasionally over-deliberate attempt at meaningful multilayering, particularly when juxtaposing two narratives against each other for pages at a time, with e.g. only half of a relevant piece of information visible. I could easily see this being called pretentious and intentionally convoluted. Luckily, it's done so excruciatingly well that I can't help but love it. Curse you again Alan Moore for controlling your release of information so cleverly. Finally catching the strangely triumphal Pyrrhic end on the last page even though it was quite dramatically set up long before was, I suppose, transcendental.)

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

learnedax scolded me for being too hard on you, so I apologize if I came across as pushy or demanding. I've reached the point where I really want to say, "Yes, I'll go to Intercon and have a grand time!" but worries hold me back from saying it, so I'm just trying to get as many people to talk me into it at once as is possible. ;)

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[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Gods forbid--I wouldn't have said anything like that. I'll just be quiet now and perhaps have the pleasant surprise of seeing you in March!

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I think we've gotten signals crossed. I don't think you're being pushy and I'll be a very sad person if you stop talking to me, seeing as how I've enjoyed our interaction so far :)