Watchmen and the problem of superman

Jai reread this graphic novel in English, twenty years after a first reading in translation. Alan Moore y morally questioning the superhero. Some unscrupulous mercenaries, other pusillanimous rich and without courage, other fanatics of the order moral, others still disproportionate ambitious who want to transform the world, others are derived daccidents related to modern technology and their powers have their lost all interest in humanity in general.

This remarkable psychological realism often affects burlesque at the same time that it gives solidity to a world where superpowers are not feigned: Superbly we swim.

But it is always original human, and that is what makes me think that this album didnt in fact exhausted the subject, such that it sest made in America. It lacks indeed the universe of superheroes that has a direct relationship with the old mythology that makes them be superhuman in nature, and among the men because they have a mission to fulfill. The land of immortals then comes into contact with the mortals, like Wonder Woman; and even then the aliens have a declared relationship with the angels - or at least the genius of peoples. This is particularly sensitive in New Gods by Jack Kirby. But in Watchmen, the alien creature lie is just one of a rogue superheroes that seeks to create a scarecrow for humanity. The cosmic dimension of the cycle created by the comics sy does not find it, because when the stars are mentioned, they are empty: only the man the people, WHEN IT has the power. There is no popular dimagerie this inextricable mixture of religiosity that is characteristic of lAmérique. We are in a European agnosticism remains.

True lextraterrestre tended to materialize angelic Letre as usually in science fiction: we made a thinking creature more advanced, for example, featuring featuring superior technology. But the transcendental dimension of these dailleurs came to help human beings or otherwise attack them, to guide or monitor, na escaped the person thoroughly. If Alan Moore refuses dentrer in this cosmos populated dentités living, thinking, smelling, this is probably that it has seen, if only quobscurément, that he was directly derived from the Universal mythology.

But personally I do not think so at the possibility of creating authentic Cretan supermen by mere human intelligence, by the conscious will and technology; and I must say that what fascinated me most in superheroes, this is precisely their connection with ancient mythology. So I understand that it mocks the kind of superhero that seem illusory, but I remain skeptical about the idea, put forward by some, that it would have made the superhero now impossible: the divine can be further symbolized by FIGS.

The drawings, they are fine, but they lack flamboyant colors, which is in line with the refusal of mythology. Only Dr. Manhattan has something magic, like his productions. But the universe by his own admission has no depth. It is a simple technical incident, accident!