Any less mainstream that a 50ft blue man with a 7ft penis?The whole aspect of the space squid storyline was to highlight the fact that, (because it was so outrageous a plan), nobody would ever suspect it was anything less than a genuine attack by a monster from another dimension.
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Captain Howdy,
Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:45,
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Just another day in Camden...;-)
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J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot,
Wed 22 Jun 2011, 9:58,
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No it wasn't.The whole point was that the entire story is a deconstruction of comic books themselves. It starts with the up-to-date (for the time) angsty story-telling, goes back through detective investigation, invincible super-powers, nuclear paranoia, and ends up with early Lovecraftian horror illustrations. The film ending makes a lot more sense, and actually gave you something to watch if you knew the book.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:41,
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Yes......but its still fairly retarded. And I suspect that the general populace would have less trouble with a giant blue man who can control physics than a giant psychic squid.
But I do agree about the attack needing to be like it was in the novel - it changes Manhattan's departure from being voluntary to being exiled, thereby changing a positive ending into a negative one, which is something of a shame.
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Wed 22 Jun 2011, 10:58,
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But I do agree about the attack needing to be like it was in the novel - it changes Manhattan's departure from being voluntary to being exiled, thereby changing a positive ending into a negative one, which is something of a shame.
I think we should settle thisby asking happytoast to draw a giant psychic squid battling a 50ft blue man with a 7ft penis. Only solution.
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Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:01,
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Zack Snyder buttfucking Alan Moore would be more apt
HappyToast Groat froth,
Wed 22 Jun 2011, 11:10,
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