Watchmen and The Lord of the Rings Are Strikingly Similar Landmarks

Watchmen and The Lord of the Rings Are Strikingly Similar Landmarks

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Watching The Rings Moore’s Watchmen and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Are Strikingly Similar Landmarks   When one talks of vital contributions to the art of comics, one cannot ignore Alan Moore. With a body of work as consistently terrific as his – he has more certifiable classics under his belt than any comic writer of the last 30 years – targeting any given tale as his “best” is an impossible task. But of Alan Moore’s contributions to comicdom, one truly stands as not just an undeniable landmark, but the undeniable landmark, putting its stamp on comic history forever: Watchmen, the powerful 12-issue collaboration with Dave…
Do Golden Age sci-fi authors still matter?

Do Golden Age sci-fi authors still matter?

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Science fiction is great, a genre associated with lasers and spaceships by the general populace but which historically has done a remarkable job of exploring big questions about who we are, why we're here, and what we can accomplish as a species. The "science" part of the equation can be pesky, though. As our scientific understanding of the universe advances, stories that once seemed rooted in a potential reality -- say, the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in our solar system -- can now seem dated, quaint, or downright silly. So with that in mind, this blog post poses an…