Ep. 66 WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? w/ Spum (Patreon)

Topics: Alan Moore & David Gibbons' Watchmen (1986-1987)Guest: Spum (@spumdonor)yeerk is joined by animation expert Spum to tackle perhaps the most influential graphic novel of all time, Alan Moore and David Gibbons' WATCHMEN- they talk about Moore's dense Modernist ambitions for the comic-book form, the shadow of Cold War nuclear dread over the work, where DEVO fit in to the book's world-building- and most importantly of all- defend Rorschach against the misreadings of 'media literacy' leftists"Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.""There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.""There is black and there is whiteAnd there is wrong and there is rightAnd there is nothing (no, there's nothing) in betweenThat's what Mr. A said"