Appearing Elsewhere

My mildly contrarian take on the print version of Watchmen appears today at More Intelligent Life. Name-checked within the piece:

• Thomas Pynchon,
• Toni Morrison,
• Malcolm Lowry,
• Jean Rhys,
• Charles Dickens,
• Georges Eliot and Saunders,
• Chris Ware,
• Lynda Barry,
• Herman Hesse,
• Jack Kerouac,
• Batman,
• Art Spiegelman,
• James Wood,
• Kenneth Turan,
• and a couple of guys who worked at a little comic-book shop in North Carolina in the early 1990s.

Notwithstanding this cavalcade of stars, I found Watchmen somewhat frustrating, for reasons I attribute to the term “graphic novel.” This may or may not be original and/or provocative. Still, I’m bracing for comments from Watchmen enthusiasts and Comic Book Guys of all stripes…