And this is why Azz will never be Alan Moore, no matter what you think of their respective talents. Moore mashed up Bickle's monologue from the beginning of Taxi Driver with one of Son of Sam's rants to make the opening monologue (Rorschach's first journal entry) on the first page of Watchmen, with its own unique and crazy rhythm, IMNSHO one of the best uses of the narrative caption in the history of comics. It's a way of evoking the zeitgeist of the urban paranoia and rage that produced someone like Bernhard Goetz.
Azz has to have Rorschach actually meet Bickle, though, for what reason, exactly? It's like that issue of The Question that Dennis O'Neil wrote in which Vic read Watchmen to make the point that his version of the character wasn't Rorschachy at all, only there seems to be less point in this. Is Rorschach going to meet Charles Bronson's character from Death Wish? How about Dirty Harry? Sheesh. I'd place bets on his finding and killing Son of Sam, but that means I'd have to read the fucking thing to find out.
I don't know, I'd totally read a Rorschach/Dirty Harry crossover, it would have the potential to be really interesting. What with one being a misanthrope whose opinions extent from his repressed sexuality, upbringing and mental illness which he exercises through vigilante justice.
And the other who claims to have a low opinion of people (EVERYONE, not just non-hetronormative WASPs like Rorschach) due to his profession, but actually proves to be a more or less friendly guy if he talks to you for an extented peroid of time.
Though Rorschach is a street level superhero or vigilante like Charles Bronsan's character in Death Wish, while Callahan is more a time-displaced character from a Western, ironically. While the former suffers from an overly simplistic view of the world, the other becomes a terrible policeman (he gets results, has good intentions but breaks a hell of a lot of laws while doing his job) due to the methods he uses being a 100 years out of date.
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Azz has to have Rorschach actually meet Bickle, though, for what reason, exactly? It's like that issue of The Question that Dennis O'Neil wrote in which Vic read Watchmen to make the point that his version of the character wasn't Rorschachy at all, only there seems to be less point in this. Is Rorschach going to meet Charles Bronson's character from Death Wish? How about Dirty Harry? Sheesh. I'd place bets on his finding and killing Son of Sam, but that means I'd have to read the fucking thing to find out.
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That was my exact thought, "Really!? They include a cameo from one of the DIRECT fictional influences for the character?" It's just so... on the nose.
Nah. I'm not going for this at all. And I really like Brian Azzarello.
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And the other who claims to have a low opinion of people (EVERYONE, not just non-hetronormative WASPs like Rorschach) due to his profession, but actually proves to be a more or less friendly guy if he talks to you for an extented peroid of time.
Though Rorschach is a street level superhero or vigilante like Charles Bronsan's character in Death Wish, while Callahan is more a time-displaced character from a Western, ironically. While the former suffers from an overly simplistic view of the world, the other becomes a terrible policeman (he gets results, has good intentions but breaks a hell of a lot of laws while doing his job) due to the methods he uses being a 100 years out of date.