The History of WATCHMEN, Explained - Issue At Hand, Episode 22
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Date: 2023-12-10
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-chukebox5063
Awesome Job Ma'am And Polygon of course for the interesting awesome Look at DCS Watchmen Comics please Continue with as many Comic Videos as possible y'all are amazing and I am just studying up on The Watchmen Comics For the New HBO Show to Air Soon because there's Not Slot of Coverage or to be known of the Series so I'm just getting my Fix Wherever I can & You know the whole Reason I enjoyed this among your other Work is cause usually the Folks that breaks down comics do not have good editing software to keep the visuals as you talk about the comic they usually have no personally at all so it's hard to stay interested plus 90percent of the time it's just Older Guys in there basement making these videos giving there opinion on the subject matter making it very uncomfortable to sit back and watch with all that put together so Thank-you Polygon For Caring about what you talk about making it interesting and not making me uncomfortable lol.
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Awesome Job Ma'am And Polygon of course for the interesting awesome Look at DCS Watchmen Comics please Continue with as many Comic Videos as possible y'all are amazing and I am just studying up on The Watchmen Comics For the New HBO Show to Air Soon because there's Not Slot of Coverage or to be known of the Series so I'm just getting my Fix Wherever I can & You know the whole Reason I enjoyed this among your other Work is cause usually the Folks that breaks down comics do not have good editing software to keep the visuals as you talk about the comic they usually have no personally at all so it's hard to stay interested plus 90percent of the time it's just Older Guys in there basement making these videos giving there opinion on the subject matter making it very uncomfortable to sit back and watch with all that put together so Thank-you Polygon For Caring about what you talk about making it interesting and not making me uncomfortable lol.
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-someperson9999
I was 16 when I read Watchmen. Ever since, I knew i wanted to create comics and tell stories to inspire and change people's lives the way Watchmen changed mine. That was over seven years ago and now I'm looking at art school because now I can afford it. I've written several manuscripts for future novels I want to write. Some about my own superheroes, some about serial killers, some just about human emotions and interactions and how each moment during the course of our lives has the potential to change everything we know and love. I love Watchmen, I always will. Watching this video, I realize that I will never be able to achieve the legend that Alan Moore created for the comics industry but Damn it I will try.
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I was 16 when I read Watchmen. Ever since, I knew i wanted to create comics and tell stories to inspire and change people's lives the way Watchmen changed mine. That was over seven years ago and now I'm looking at art school because now I can afford it. I've written several manuscripts for future novels I want to write. Some about my own superheroes, some about serial killers, some just about human emotions and interactions and how each moment during the course of our lives has the potential to change everything we know and love. I love Watchmen, I always will. Watching this video, I realize that I will never be able to achieve the legend that Alan Moore created for the comics industry but Damn it I will try.
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-roidroid
I've never read the comics & never watched the movie.
It's weird, it was just never. advertised to me? I've picked up bits & pieces from context clues over the years (the blue moonman is omnipotent or something), but still to this day i don't know anything about the plot. All i know about it is -this is a movie-, but that's not a sufficient reason to me to watch a movie.
Is the reason it's never been advertised to me, because it's a classic & everyone is assumed to already know about it? (i don't)
I dunno, maybe one day i'll just happen to see it, if a friend is watching it and i'll sit beside them. But as TV and cinema become less relevant, it seems less likely i'll ever see it, shrug.
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I've never read the comics & never watched the movie.
It's weird, it was just never. advertised to me? I've picked up bits & pieces from context clues over the years (the blue moonman is omnipotent or something), but still to this day i don't know anything about the plot. All i know about it is -this is a movie-, but that's not a sufficient reason to me to watch a movie.
Is the reason it's never been advertised to me, because it's a classic & everyone is assumed to already know about it? (i don't)
I dunno, maybe one day i'll just happen to see it, if a friend is watching it and i'll sit beside them. But as TV and cinema become less relevant, it seems less likely i'll ever see it, shrug.
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-bronzeowl9
This video is what made me finally read Watchmen and wow. It is pretty amazing. It was a little overwhelming at first because of how dense it is, but that just makes me want to go back and re-read it, see if I missed anything. I don't read too many comics, and the ones I have read had simple story lines that lasted just one issue and were probably a part of that whole -self-censorship- thing. Reading Watchmen was intense and the whole thing (but the ending especially) really made me think about right and wrong and compromise, which is something I can say I didn't expect from an 80s comic.
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This video is what made me finally read Watchmen and wow. It is pretty amazing. It was a little overwhelming at first because of how dense it is, but that just makes me want to go back and re-read it, see if I missed anything. I don't read too many comics, and the ones I have read had simple story lines that lasted just one issue and were probably a part of that whole -self-censorship- thing. Reading Watchmen was intense and the whole thing (but the ending especially) really made me think about right and wrong and compromise, which is something I can say I didn't expect from an 80s comic.
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polygon
At first I was extremely hesitant of reading Alan Moore-s comics, I had read Killing Joke which was amazing but, short and I wanted to know more of his work, I heard of V for Vendetta next through the movie and read the comic some years later and it was one of the greatest comics I ever read, I then approached Watchmen, having gained interest after being 9 issues into Doomsday clock and I read the Graphic Novel and was really amazed and inspired in a way
You don-t see many graphic novels like Watchmen anymore, It is my #2 Best Comic/Manga (#1 being Akira)
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At first I was extremely hesitant of reading Alan Moore-s comics, I had read Killing Joke which was amazing but, short and I wanted to know more of his work, I heard of V for Vendetta next through the movie and read the comic some years later and it was one of the greatest comics I ever read, I then approached Watchmen, having gained interest after being 9 issues into Doomsday clock and I read the Graphic Novel and was really amazed and inspired in a way
You don-t see many graphic novels like Watchmen anymore, It is my #2 Best Comic/Manga (#1 being Akira)
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-mrmmarc
Once again- the best show examining comics as an art form around in the world today. Bravo.
For me what made Watchmen so brilliant?
Chewing sugar.
The way those little individual sugar cubes go from episode one to episode seven or so. it was the sugar that made Hollywood screen writers get so excited about Watchmen and shows the sheer attention to detail of the series. For good and for bad.
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Once again- the best show examining comics as an art form around in the world today. Bravo.
For me what made Watchmen so brilliant?
Chewing sugar.
The way those little individual sugar cubes go from episode one to episode seven or so. it was the sugar that made Hollywood screen writers get so excited about Watchmen and shows the sheer attention to detail of the series. For good and for bad.
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-juanjuri6127
can't wait for part 2! i love watchmen but i cringe at, like, 95% of the -NOT FOR KIDS ANYMORE- in-your-face grimdark edgelord comics that spawned for the next decade or so, many of them a pretty naked attempt at making the next Watchmen. there were so many writers eager to do -mature- stories now, while still having a 13-year-old's understanding of what made a story -mature-.
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can't wait for part 2! i love watchmen but i cringe at, like, 95% of the -NOT FOR KIDS ANYMORE- in-your-face grimdark edgelord comics that spawned for the next decade or so, many of them a pretty naked attempt at making the next Watchmen. there were so many writers eager to do -mature- stories now, while still having a 13-year-old's understanding of what made a story -mature-.
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-tristansmith8824
Next episode, please bring up Alan Moore's Neonomicon, because you can't praise the dude nonstop without at least mention some of the outright terrible stuff he's made, too.
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Next episode, please bring up Alan Moore's Neonomicon, because you can't praise the dude nonstop without at least mention some of the outright terrible stuff he's made, too.
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-j. c. 5528
I just re-read Watchmen a few months ago. I love all your thoughts here, especially the ones that went right over my head - like the lover's embrace parallel at the end.
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I just re-read Watchmen a few months ago. I love all your thoughts here, especially the ones that went right over my head - like the lover's embrace parallel at the end.
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-pedroazevedo1903
I LOVE this show SO MUCH. Really wish I could sit with Susana and talk about comics for weeks. Really wish that the episodes were released more often tho.
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I LOVE this show SO MUCH. Really wish I could sit with Susana and talk about comics for weeks. Really wish that the episodes were released more often tho.
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-BrainSlug91
love Issue at Hand, keep it up: )
But also don't do two-part episodes, my fragile constitution can't handle cliffhangers in my media analysis.
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love Issue at Hand, keep it up: )
But also don't do two-part episodes, my fragile constitution can't handle cliffhangers in my media analysis.
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-conversequeen64
Susana you are amazing, you seem like an awesome person to hang out with and deep dive discussion about pop-culture. Can't wait for part 2!
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Susana you are amazing, you seem like an awesome person to hang out with and deep dive discussion about pop-culture. Can't wait for part 2!
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-MestizaMetaphor
Good job, Susana! As someone who studied comics (including Watchmen) for my Master's degree, I really enjoyed this! Keep up the good work.
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Good job, Susana! As someone who studied comics (including Watchmen) for my Master's degree, I really enjoyed this! Keep up the good work.
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-SEiiBUTSU
-American- novels? Alan Moore - Born 18 November 1953 Northampton, England / David Gibbons - Born
14 April 1949 London, England, . huh.
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-American- novels? Alan Moore - Born 18 November 1953 Northampton, England / David Gibbons - Born
14 April 1949 London, England, . huh.
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-deschamos7599
I started watching this because I wanted a bit more than basics. You do much more than basics (without assumption. Keep on keepin on
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I started watching this because I wanted a bit more than basics. You do much more than basics (without assumption. Keep on keepin on
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-joshuahoeppner597
Can we compare Watchmen to -Great American Novels- when Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are both British? Maybe just -Great Novels-
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Can we compare Watchmen to -Great American Novels- when Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are both British? Maybe just -Great Novels-
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-sabriel_
i love this, i only wish it was longer. this really makes me appreciate the subtleties of comics in a way i haven't seen before
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i love this, i only wish it was longer. this really makes me appreciate the subtleties of comics in a way i haven't seen before
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-honey3762
I am so happy with this series of video essays. They are so well crafted and susana is doing a wonderful job as the host.
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I am so happy with this series of video essays. They are so well crafted and susana is doing a wonderful job as the host.
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-davidwatkins4709
Any chance you could cover Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire's 2014 Moon Knight run by chance?
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Any chance you could cover Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire's 2014 Moon Knight run by chance?
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-Frog_kaeru
dang i miss Issue at Hand. Susana-s perspective and passion for comics and comic related things was so refreshing.
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dang i miss Issue at Hand. Susana-s perspective and passion for comics and comic related things was so refreshing.
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-robotskirts
Awesome lapel pin. Although I probably wouldn't have caught it if it wasn't included in the title sequence.
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Awesome lapel pin. Although I probably wouldn't have caught it if it wasn't included in the title sequence.
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-lalit5408
Is it just me or does everything here sounds like it is picked up from kaiptainkristian's video on watchman.
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Is it just me or does everything here sounds like it is picked up from kaiptainkristian's video on watchman.
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polygon
Man, Watchmen is one of my favourite stories of all time, it's such a great comic and the film was awesome
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Man, Watchmen is one of my favourite stories of all time, it's such a great comic and the film was awesome
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-CastleBomb44
I REALLY love these Issue at Hand Episodes by Susana Polo. I wish they got more views than they did.
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I REALLY love these Issue at Hand Episodes by Susana Polo. I wish they got more views than they did.
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