Watchmen

I also, I need to go into the basement and dig around.

I have an early, early draft of The Watchmen, you know, because they made a couple of runs at trying to make that.

And I'm not just talking about the film and then, you know, the miniseries.

But this was an early, early draft of the screenplay where it's just sort of like, did you read the book? Wow.

Dear Milk Sop and Panty Waste, question, are we not men? Answer, we are Devo.

Everyone knows Devo's first album, right? I'm reading, listening through Watchmen still.

So he's back in our Watchmen season a year ago, right?

Yeah.

I remember Night Owl says, like, I must look real Devo to

Only two of them came out in the late 70s, the third being in 1980.

On that third album, which went platinum, was Whippet, which I can only imagine even Dan would have heard.

My theory is for some reason Warner Brothers is a connection because they bought TC shortly before Watchmen's creation.

And then the draw on top of it, it's like the drawings are dense.

This is why I think Watchmen has like transcended into this masterwork of, of.

Right.

literature is because not only is it word dense, it is also character dense.

And then it is also like background drawing dense.

Like there are things that carry from panel to panel that if you're just reading the words, you're never going to see.

And it's like these multiple layers of, of how far can we push a superhero comic, Which at the end of the day, Watchmen is a superhero beat up comic.

And it's great.

I also, I need to go into the basement and dig around.

I have an early, early draft of The Watchmen, you know, because they made a couple of runs trying to make that.

And I'm not just talking about the film and then, you know, the miniseries, but this was an early, early draft of the screenplay where it's just sort of like, did you read the book? Wow.

Okay.

Leslie Klinger is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on gothic horror, as well as being an attorney who specializes in tax, estate planning, and business law.

He is a noted writer, literary editor, and annotator on the classic horror film genre and history of crime, including the Sherlock Holmes stories, the novels Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the Edgar-winning classic American crime fiction of the 1920s, as well as Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Comics and American Gods, and Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel, Watchmen.

He is currently the editor of the 16-volume Library of Congress Crime Classics series.

Les attended the University of California, where he received an A.B. in English, and also earned his J.D. from the University of California School of Law.

But what I've been thinking about a lot is, you know, I've been watching Lovecraft Country.

I've been watched Watchmen and I'm reading Lovecraft Country now or actually I finished it.

But what I what I've been thinking about is the way we're haunted by our history.

And I think that these these.

but also i just like i kind of like don't mind it because like it's subjective it's like a rorschach test So, like, that's how I justify the name.

If you like the character Rorschach in Watchmen, more power to you.

I also did at one point.

Yeah, I was going to say.

And I was like, he's kind of, like, cool.

Was there a guy called Mr. Rorschach? Like, where does that...

From Watchmen? No, no, no.

Like, the