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Sandman and Watchmen are both pinnacles of comic storytelling, the blending of image and text to create a new method to tell stories.
Sandman started a sjust a horror comic, and became something bigger as Neil Gaiman matured in his writing style.
The Watchmen is not a critique of golden era superheros. Everyone gets this wrong. It is a crititique of the comic book companies themselves and how they portray these "heroes." And it rules all.
and Borges would have liked it. Borges was blind though, so he would have missed like 75% of the story as it is told visually.
If you had read Watchmen when it came out, as I did, it would have blown your mind away.
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