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I apologize: more comics talk. It’s Dark Knight day, for Pete’s sake! It’s OUR DAY! Today we discuss how to summarize Watchmen.

Watchmen is a revered graphic novel, but it’s also a story so dense and complicated that it’s hard to read, especially for those not already immersed in the superhero world. I’ve tried to summarize it (unsolicited) many times before, and failed.

But last night, after watching the Watchmen movie trailer (which looks AWESOME), I stumbled on a way to do it, and that is by focusing on the story of the big blue dude, Dr. Manhattan. Okay, here goes:

Watchmen is a story where a passive, mild-mannered American scientist [...]

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Dear lord! Check out the second-to-last ever Peanuts strip: Peppermint Patty alone in the rain wanting to play football only to realize that everyone has gone home! (Via Mike Lynch Cartoons). Click the thumbnail above to read it!

Drawn by a dying cartoonist! I can’t say it enough: Peanuts was a miracle. “You should go home, sir. It’s getting dark.” Good God! Anyway, the next volume of The Complete Peanuts will be out soon. Kevin, John Reynolds, Terry Jinn — let us all buy this. Edited to add: And Porter! Porter, I associate you with Bloom County first, and now that I articulate that I have no idea [...]

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