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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5654750" data-attributes="member: 3887">I read and enjoyed Rising Stars, but I wouldn't put it Watchman's league. I remember something recent-ish (2003-2004) that I liked a lot: Darwyn Cooke's The New Frontier which reminded me of a cross between Paul Dini's excellent animated DC stuff and a much less bleak Watchmen. Bone has been on my to-read list for years, along withe the first few phone books worth of Sim's Cerebus the Aadvark. The thing I've noticed w/contemporary comics is individual panels might look nice (if often too busy), but the visual storytelling is awful, if not absent entirely. The only exception to this I've seen is Terry Moore's work. His recently-concluded Echo is wonderful, and a wonderful reminder that comics should also tell/move their stories through their art. I'd like to see them, too. Personally, I think Moore's own Marvelman/Miracleman run beats Watchmen (by a hair), but I'm with you that it's a high water mark for comics as a whole. I totally disagree w/the notion Watchmen is somehow dated, or only interesting by virtue of being an early example of a revisionist superhero tale. Dr. Manhattan on Mars is still one of the most beautiful scenes in all of science fiction, and a fine argument --as if this still needs to be argued-- for the use of SF/F modes in "serious" literature.</blockquote>