Watchmen was published in an era when the comic book genre was dominated by superheroes and antiheroes with black and white views about good and evil. It is a parody of the overman in dystopia. A combination of dark, pulp, and deconstructed comic book style, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon offered something that caters to both comic book aficionados and common readers.

Watchmen is not your typical graphic novel. It defies all other conventions in the comic book genre and deviates from the usual larger-than-life comic book characters we have come to know. Instead of an alien from Krypton or a dark knight in a bat mobile, Watchmen offers a different set of superheroes with insecurities, imperfections, and emotional disturbances.

The graphic novel is somewhat an oxymoron. On one hand, this is slated to a wider range of audience, but this doesn’t make the graphic novel an easy read. It is designed to be read more than once. Watchmen brings the readers into a dynamic state, into a questioning mode of thinking. Every encounter with this comic book elicits a different response from readers. As said by Moore and Gibbon in an interview, they intended the graphic novel to hold different meanings to different people. Read the rest of this entry »

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In a universe full of some of the greatest superheroes that ever lived you’d think all we’d get would be the toughest villains in marvel comics.  However, that is not always the case.  Sometimes we get the absolute lamest villains in marvel comics.  The list is long if you look back over the many decades marvel has been publishing comics, but here are five that just really stand out from the rest.

EEL

This guy’s claim to the lamest villains in marvel comics is that he’s basically a poor man’s version of the Spider-Man villains Shocker or Electro.   He has no powers and no special skills save being decent at hand-to-hand combat.  He just has a grease covered suit that can shoot electricity.  Not to mention the costume was poorly conceived and just looks lame.  This guy didn’t stand a chance.

MATADOR

When talking about the lamest villains in marvel comics you can’t leave this guy off.  He was literally just a matador.  He carried a sword, but had no powers and no special suits, yet he took Daredevil down.  I don’t know what marvel was thinking with this one, but he shouldn’t even be considered one of the villains in marvel comics, he should just be a stupid guy who got too big for his britches. Read the rest of this entry »

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