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WHO WATCHES THE BOTCHMEN??
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![[User Picture]](http://www.insanejournal.com/userpic/8245720/385949) | | From: | irenem |
| Date: | May 8th, 2009 10:24 am (UTC) |
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Compared to the other Mad parody of Watchmen that was posted here a while back, this thing is comic GOLD.
And that is some excellent art.
Agreed. The first thing that struck me, before the great writing in comparison to most Mad Parodys, was the art. It's part panel copy, part Glenn Farby (on a good day).
It actually is Glenn Fabry, isn't it?
I'd say it is. Anyone know for definite?
Really excellent art. Good composition, too.
You know what's odd, though? Both parodies were written by Desmond Devlin, who is IMHO about the only MAD writer these days who's actually funny, especially when satirizing comics. On the old s_d I posted some brilliant parodies he did of Sandman: Endless Nights and Cathy as if written by Frank Miller.
Maybe Devlin wrote the movie parody on an off day, or was strictly instructed not to deviate from the formula of "just say over and over how bad and stupid the movie is", which is what basically every MAD movie parody has consisted of for the last 20 years.
![[User Picture]](http://www.insanejournal.com/userpic/8245720/385949) | | From: | irenem |
| Date: | May 8th, 2009 02:39 pm (UTC) |
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Hot damn, if Frank Miller started actually writing Cathy I'd be forced to start liking Cathy and Frank Miller. The universe would collapse.
It is odd that the same guy wrote both. Based on the other, I had thought the writer hadn't even read Watchmen, or probably even seen the movie. The awful "amusement-park-caricature-artist"-style art didn't help it much.
Imma gunna hafta find those other parodies now, because this stuff is refreshingly funny. |
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