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I stumbled onto this on HBO last night, a movie adaptation of a "graphic novel", which I guess means a comic book. Seemed like a little bit of a dystopian take on the super hero genre set in 1985 during Nixon's fifth term when one of the retired superheroes, "The Comedian" is mysteriously killed and the others come out to avenge it; yeah they indignantly protest, sure the guy was a little sinister they concede, a malicious clown with a cigar perpetually jutting out the side of his mouth who had been the shooter on the grassy knoll in Dallas in 1963 and sure, he had done some heavy lifting for the contras, but hey he was a patriotic American and a nice guy. What's this country coming to? I'm not sure how Nixon's Pinochet like fictional fourth and fifth terms varied from Reagan's real first and second ones, however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
