(Far out. One image gives us the cover of my edition of Watchmen and the Awesome Mage himself.)
I am rereading Alan Moore's Watchmen so I need an angle to discuss it on the Poul Anderson Appreciation blog. Easy. It is all in the alternative histories.
Poul Anderson gives us alternative histories in which:
the Carolingian myths were true;
William Shakespeare was not the Great Dramatist but the Great Historian;
technology was based not on science but on magic.
And Alan Moore gives us alternative histories in which:
when superhero comics inspired real life superheroes, comic books turned instead to pirates and, after the New York incident, to horror;
Superman and Captain Marvel were comic book characters but Mick Anglo's Marvelman was a parareality program and Moore's revived Marvelman was the real thing.
Absolutely Mind-blowing.
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