Watchmen told me that if we didn't have superhero comics then we'd all be reading pirate comics. Well superhero comics suck now so where are all the pirate comics?
Hard mode: Don't mention One Piece
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>if we didn't have
We still have them tho
The fact that they suck is besides the point, we still have them because we built culture around them
(you) must go out and write those pirate comics
Go forth, anon, go and YARR to the extreme
Corto Maltese
>Hard mode: Don't mention One Piece
It hasn't beaten Superman yet. It's still 100 million copies behind.
It's 100 million behind, but those sales are all volume (TPB) sales, while Superman is individual issue sales.
How about the shonen jump issues with the funny pirate manga in it? i know it's unfair since people buy SJ for other series but who cares this is a east vs west thread
>this is a east vs west thread
How? I'm asking for comics and I immediately disqualified the eastern alternative
I agree, noone talked about manga but mentioned only One-Piece.
Honestly, I never got why Moore went with pirate comics for his world without superhero comics. Pirate comics have never been popular in the US, without superheroes, odds are comics would have had more variety like with European comics. So we'd have funny animals, romance, Archie-style comedies, crime, horror, sci-fi... As a European himself, you'd think Moore would have understood that.
He just thought it to be funny. Probably someone said he looked like black beard, he thought of Moby Dick as an analogy and than his analogy would work best with a pirate setting.
Are you autistic?
Why do you think that anon is autistic?
You expect that he bought them? If he really has money he probably would have bought these vapor things. Looks cheaper in longterm.
Besides free stuff is free and some people like free stuff even if they have the money.
What sort of a raging homosexual do you have to be to consider anything other than the original comic?
Someone who dont follow instinct behaviour?
Not comics specifically but a lot of creators of his generation seem to've grown up obsessed with swashbuckling thanks to heavy doses of old movies and Burroughs so you get a certain amount of it creeping in, like
Or maybe Claremont just has a pirate fetish in addition to all the others. I dunno
Superhero comics have beaten every other genre for decades. Even if superhero comics disappeared today, nothing would be able to fill the void. There are still non-superhero comics being made and they sell like shit. The only competition superheroes have is porn.
Noone cares that this is a pirate setting. It could be any fantasy-medievil setting and nothing would change. You probably could take One-Piece and make it about gangz and hoods. Just change the ships into bikes and a truck.
No, he inspired One-Piece!
I would honestly love to hear Moores opinions on One Piece
He said he hasn’t read manga if I remember corectly.
I asked Moore what he thought of One Piece, he said
>It became shit after the time skip.
in so many words.
> Did he made any comment about Namis bust size change?
Didnt thought someone would answer that quickly. Saw that typing error!
So what you're telling me is that Alan Moore predicted One Piece?
I think Alan Moore just added that element to Watchmen because of his own generation growing up around films with swashbucklers and chivalrous knights. It's what the film industry focused on after cowboy stuff fell out of style and before the advent of soft sci-fi and eventually grizzled action heroes. At least, that seemed to be the case in the US, maybe that shift didn't translate to British audiences.
No you got that wrong, you pirate the comics.
Joke aside, the 90s had some pirate movies and interest. But when Pirates of the Caribean cant generate pirate stuff nor Lego is interested in Lego pirates, than no, there will never be a pirate genre.
Why were the 90s interested in pirates? Noone was, it was a swashbuckling thing. The 90s had Robin Hood, 3 Musketeers and other things. And that evolved into fantasy like Lord of the Rings and Cinemaphile like Dark Souls or Cinemaphile the Witcher Cinemaphile adaptation.
When capes is uninteresting i would say we get fantasy stuff.
Read Corto Maltese.
And also One Piece.
>Read Corto Maltese.
Want to read them in the original language, which I haven't learned yet
>And also One Piece.
Already have
Off topic but how come he never just bought that comic? If he can afford cigarettes he can afford the comic.
He spent his comic money on cigarettes
The newstsnd guy lets him read it for free
There you go anon
Nice
But we still have superhero comics even if they suck
In the Watchmen universe capeshit fell out of fashion decades ago so it's impossible for our universe to develop that late, not after all the media impact
He said they should get bigger.
Really liked The Red Seas. Also, Will Eisner did Hawks of the Sea back in the 1930s
If you like comics with actual words in them try the Fleetway Picture Library Classics. They reprinted a ton of classic pirate stuff from before the era when comics got shit.