So The Dark Night cleaned up at the tills, signaling DC comics is ready to rumble with Marvel in the live action comicbook movies department. (Marvel's offering this summer, Incredible Hulk was just... ok.) And next year, as you already know, DC will release it's groundbreaking Watchmen. Article and trailer here.
But that's not what this is about. The article mentions that Watchmen (by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) was the first graphic novel to win "the highest honor in science fiction", the Hugo Award.
But that's not what this is about. The article mentions that Watchmen (by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) was the first graphic novel to win "the highest honor in science fiction", the Hugo Award.
The series won the 1988 Hugo Award — the first graphic novel to win the highest honor in science fiction, joining “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J. K. Rowling.Fahrenheit 451, ok. Dune, yes. But wadapak is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire doing in that list? Is there something science-fictiony about wizards-in-training waving wands and reciting incantations? I didnt realize Hugo got that desperate over the years. Or if HP represented the best science fiction there was at the time, then that was a very bad year indeed.
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as if the human race didn't already give Rowling enough money to last a thousand lifetimes.
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