Thread 149818892

I still have no idea what a deconstruction is or why Watchmen is one.

>>149818892 (OP)
A deconstruction is just something publishers say when they want to sound like their comic book is more clever than it actually is or what dullards want to say when they still want to read super hero books but are afraid of being seen as childish so they have characters swear more or do drugs. The concept doesn't actually exist. It's just an added layer of irony in place sincerity.

>>149818928
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>>149818892 (OP)
The deconstruction aspect is that the non-powered heroes are largely ineffective while the one guy with superpowers completely alters the political, economic, military, and scientific landscape.

>>149818892 (OP)
>>149818928
>>149818946
it’s just a fancy way of saying irony.

>>149818892 (OP)
Essentially it's taking idea in fiction and playing it straight to the point it becomes ridiculous. To point out how some accepted conceit in a genre is absurd when taken on its own in an otherwise realistic setting without the normal structures provided in the genre to make it sensible. But yeah it's generally misused as >>149819149

>>149818892 (OP)
Watchmen, like most of the standout superhero comics from the 80s and on, is a revisionist work, in that it takes an existing concept and reimagines it in a modern light with modern beliefs. Basically, it takes a non-traditional approach to the genre.
With Watchmen, Moore essentially turned the superhero genre on its head by merely adding a hint of realism here and there.
>>149818928
The concept exists, but it was originally a method of analysis, strictly non-fictional and non-narrative. Language has shifted to accommodate the marketing.

>>149818928
Thats something a low IQ contrarian like to say.

>>149818892 (OP)
>100+ threads with Alan Moore face the last months
>brain dead OP with some retarded wrong opinion
When will this spam end? when will election tourists leave?

>>149818892 (OP)
>what a deconstruction is
you basically take a wheel and make it square, it can still work but not as good as if it was round

dr manhattan is a deconstruction of the superhero. if a superhero actually existed they would be akin to religous revelation, world dating being reset to year 0, instead of just being a local mascot.

>>149820146
No, it's taking a wheel apart, seeing how it works and how it doesn't.

>>149818892 (OP)
When the internet uses the phrase it just means this: >>149818928

An actual deconstruction is something like Understanding Comics. Watchmen is NOT a deconstruction.

>>149821032
>An actual deconstruction is something like Understanding Comics.
This.

>>149818892 (OP)
Hey Zack, how goes the Space Operas?

>>149818892 (OP)
It's when you ruin something good on purpose and then spend the rest of your life seething about it online. Alan Moore invented it.

>>149820258
thats literally what i said
>take X (wheel)
>take X part and see how it works (round) and how it doesn't (square)

>>149818892 (OP)
>I still have no idea what a deconstruction is
It's a total fabrication, we made it up.

>>149822397
No, becoming a square is not part of it.

>>149819376
The part dullards always forget is that it's not enough to just tear down a type of story. You have to still reconstruct something with the material. You can't just write something cynical and say LOL SUPER HEROES DON'T WORK.

>>149818892 (OP)
>why Watchmen is one.
i understand its the school holidays but how have you never heard the phrase "who watches the watchmen"

>>149824345
I don't think I've read a superhero comic that intends to just tear down the genre and then just leaves it in pieces. Maybe some of Millar's stuff felt like that.

>>149825366
>I don't think I've read a superhero comic that intends to just tear down the genre and then just leaves it in pieces.

You haven't read anything in the last 25 years?

>>149825539
Yes, I have.

Deconstruction? Watchmen is more of a noir plot, in this case, a whodunit plot with superpowered people. Miracleman and especially Swamp Thing felt more like a deconstruction, seriously, he literally deconstructs Swamp Thing down to his anatomy.

>Comedian
He's supposed to be the hypocritical jingoistic all-American character.
>Owl
He's the virgin tech nigga.
>Ozzy
He's the smart guy who has no humanity.
>Manhattan
He's the most human despite being a god...and bald.
>Ginger dood
He's the murderhobo.
>Silk
bitch

>>149826872
>despite being a god...and bald.
Waitaminute, why DIDN'T Jon give himself hair?

>>149827200
Why are you questioning God, anon?

>>149818892 (OP)
A giant squid deconstructs New York City

>>149827200
If you're blue dick buff bod chicks will dig bald

>>149826872
its not that simple

>>149825366
Ennis legitimately hates superheroes being paragons of morality.

>>149827200
>Waitaminute, why DIDN'T Jon give himself hair?
After reconstructing his entire body from the inside out he probably just didn't care anymore. There's also a question that bears thinking about, is his skin really skin? As in does the physical process of constant replacement of the skin happen? Does he have to artificially force the process to occur? If that's the case maybe adding hair on top of every other previously automatic process was just where he stopped.
Otherwise another pertinent question, is his his shit blue?