• @[email protected]
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    Imagine being bored to tears as a guard, then seeing this just pop up and be left with zero explanation.

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      “Sir, I saw a… a…”
      I swear to god if one more private brings up UFOs…
      “…a screaming skeleton that teleported.”

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    Fun fact: The Watchmen was the first comic book to use Comic Sans

    Fun fact edit: I lied.

    • @[email protected]
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      6411 months ago

      Watchmen came out almost a decade before Comic Sans existed, it was hand-lettered by Dave Gibbons. In fact, it directly inspired the creation of Comic Sans according to Wikipedia.

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        Holy shit I’m an idiot.

        I just realized it’s comic as in books and not comic as in funny.

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          You’re not an idiot-- That distinction isn’t discernable from the name per se, that information is concealed within some relatively obscure typography lore!

          Consider this quote from Wikipedia:

          Although many people believe that the “Comic” in Comic Sans refers to the lettering common for comic books at the time, font designer Brian Richardson revealed that this was not the case: While speaking on a panel at the 1999 Microsoft DesignTalks conference for designers, he said “We just wanted to make something fun, that people could use to inject a little bit of humor into their documents. It was actually called ‘Funny Sans Serif’ during development, but Pat convinced me last minute to change it to “Comic Sans” so that it would appear higher in the font picker.”

          Now, Wikipedia doesn’t tell you that because I just made it up, but it would be totally plausible! Then some of us would be talking about how we thought it was about comic books. So you’re not an idiot, IMO.

        • @jaybone
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          I thought it was from comics as in newspaper comics, which are usually funny and used to be referred to sometimes as “the funnies.”

        • @Rolando
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          The graphic novel was revolutionary when it came out in the late 80s. For a comic book it’s still extremely good, if you like character-based stories.

          • @Agent641
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            Character-based stories as opposed to?

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              Some stories are about the interplay of characters, others are about a theme or an event. All the things exist in every story, but what the story is written with focus on is what is used as descriptive

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          Substantially better. It actually has a theme and internal morality that makes sense.

          Zack Snyder has a real talent for totally abandoning the actual meaning of comics in favor of capturing an aesthetic and this is no exception.

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            Yeah, but the aesthetics though 👌👌👌. I remember watching Watchmen at the theater and thinking these scenes are straight out of the comic panel. Love both of them.

            Edit: who watches the watchmen? Me, its me.

        • Mr Reach
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          Funny enough, the movie has a better fitting ending while the comic has better story pacing.

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            I hated the movie ending which is why I know it was so good. It ended in a way that was unsatisfying to me and I feel like that’s important to the story.

        • @Daft_ish
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          I’d suggest watching the hbo series then going back and watching the movie.

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              Oh, I just really liked the hbo series so that when I went back to watch the movie I was able to pay attention.

  • @jopepa
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    On the first day of Partially Muscled Screaming Skeleton Day my Partially Muscled Skeleton screamed to me, “I hate this and should never be!”

  • @zzzz
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    What a great graphic novel.

  • IninewCrow
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    Ummm … what kind of decorations should I be putting up? Is there a playlist of songs I could put on?