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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1092",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1092,
    "subject": "Watchmen",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-09-04T09:40:06+00:00",
    "last": "1998-09-04T09:40:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0018-0107@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Gersten",
        "address": "jgersten at slip.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-04T09:40:06+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Watchmen",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I'm another fan of \"Watchmen\"; are there other such you\ncan recommend?  I know about \"Maus\"."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The Dark Night Returns and V: For Vendetta are usually mentioned in the\nsame breath as Watchmen (which means you've probably heard of them already\ntoo)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I think Moore's \"Miracleman\" work (collected in, er, three or four trade\npaperback volumes) is arguably even better than Watchmen, though with art by\nseveral diverse artists, visually it's a lot less coherent.  Neil Gaiman's\nbrief coda to the Miracleman saga, collected in \"Miracleman, The Golden\nAge,\" is equally good (perhaps surprisingly so, given that at the time\nGaiman was still an up-and-comer).\n\nThen you might check out Grant Morrison's work -- his Doom Patrol stuff is\nfantastic, though a bit bizarre.  The first six or so issues are collected\nin a trade paperback entitled \"Crawling From The Wreckage,\" and though the\nrest of the run (40+ issues)  is available only in the original back issues,\nthey're well worth tracking down.  Morrison is currently in the middle of\n\"The Invisibles,\" the first eight issues of which are also available in a\ntrade paperback entitled \"Say You Want A Revolution.\"  Also terrific stuff.\nWhile most of Morrison's stuff is inherently post-modern, that element of\nhis work reached a high point a couple summers back in a short series called\n\"Flex Mentallo,\" which is due to be reprinted soon in paperback as well.\n\nFor starters.... <grin>\n\nJohn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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