# Watchmen, "pomo" *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 03 Sep 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### John Bishop *03 Sep 1998, 18:51* I'm another fan of "Watchmen"; are there other such you can recommend? I know about "Maus". What is "pomo"? There've been a number of references in the discussion of Eco and "The Name of the Rose". Personally, I tend to hate any story that ends with the set blowing up, no matter how good the lead-in has been--it's a cheap trick, and overused. One attraction of Wolfe's work for me is that he doesn't go for the cheap effect. -John --- ### Michael Straight *04 Sep 1998, 08:33 · follows John Bishop* > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Bishop wrote: > I'm another fan of "Watchmen"; are there other such you > can recommend? I know about "Maus". The Dark Night Returns and V: For Vendetta are usually mentioned in the same breath as Watchmen (which means you've probably heard of them already too). > What is "pomo"? There've been a number of references in > the discussion of Eco and "The Name of the Rose". Just an abreviation for "post-modern." Which, as near as I can tell from common usage can mean either "I don't understand it, but I like it," or "I don't understand it and I don't like it." -Rostrum --- ### Marc Coleman *04 Sep 1998, 09:33 · follows Michael Straight* > At 08:33 AM 9/4/98 -0400, you wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Bishop wrote: >> I'm another fan of "Watchmen"; are there other such you >> can recommend? I know about "Maus". > The Dark Night Returns and V: For Vendetta are usually mentioned in the > same breath as Watchmen (which means you've probably heard of them already > too). I like V and Watchmen, though lately it's been the Sandman... marc ---