Image of full page. Notice extra wide margins and contrast between original board color and toned image area from framing..
Location: Art - Other - Assorted Items (some nudity)
Artist:
Dave Gibbons
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It's a great page as this is the emotional climax to Laurie's storyline as she has to live with the burden she never asked for. The first panel is looking through a glass of a stiff drink and calling out to the cover to remind us of the power of nostalgia and how it blurs reality. Maybe it's nostalgia for that place and time that made you buy a page from a story that you didn't like. It would be a bottle of Nostalgia that Laurie hurls to destroy Dr. Manhattan's construct on Mars and bring reality back into focus.
Great character page/moment by Gibbons
No superhero costumes - so what? Great page, great example of graphic storytelling!
Great page and it's interesting to hear your thoughts on the book. Too bad the CAF limit didn't let you circle back to Little Nemo...
Iconic page !
Lovely page and comments. It's a very handsy page also. Glad you boarded the ship. Never too late, I guess.
It's a great page and a dynamite piece of visual storytelling on so many fronts - which you cover so well in your comments. We'll have to figure out a way to somehow loop back and get the Little Nemo comments from you!
Great page from a landmark story.
The view from the Black Freighter bow looks just fine!
As the Comedian is one of my favorite characters in the Watchmen, this is a very enjoyable page. Congrats on finally landing a page from this comic.
An incredibly dramatic moment in the story. It's a great page!
really great page!!! congrats on boarding the Watchmen train even if you did so with some reservation about the prices of the art and the quality of the story.
I wanted to read the rest of your story though, hope the CAF guys are paying attention we need a higher character limit ha.
At least you like the art! An iconic series in American comic history..it's a nice example and if you look ever so closely you will see a young J Jonah Jameson and possibly a few views of Modesty Blaise.. But you know I kid. Congrats on finally bringing one of these home!
I certainly saw the Modesty Blaise in Laurie. Wth Alan and Dave growing up in the UK, I wouldn't be surprised if the likeness was intentional. Literally dressed to kill.
Beautiful and memorable page! I actually prefer these types of pages with engaging dialogue and plot development. I'm like you and not a big fan of this particular work, but I doubt there are many collectors that wouldn't want a Watchmen page in their gallery! Congratulations on starting the year with a banger!
Any Watchmen page is a great Watchmen page. I like Watchmen a lot - but the main premise of the entire story is pretty weak. But you don't read Watchmen for that premise - you enjoy the way the story is told. Lots of layers, and unique and original storytelling elements from Moore and some very well fleshed out and interesting characters (Doctor Manhattan is my favorite). I also love how it's a world unto itself. The whole thing made all the more better by Gibbons' incredible art. It's mind candy. What's not to like?? Congrats on finally getting on board!
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Great Watchmen page and comments. Congrats Jeff!
Great page, fantastic write-up. You have joined quite an exclusive club – original-comic-art-collecting royalty. Congrats!
Okay, we all know this piece may not hold a candle to anything you currently have in your Nightwing art collection, but still, the scene with Laurie confronting the Comedian is one of the most memorable scenes in my mind. Congrats on the acquisition and doubly so for being honest enough to admit you feel Watchmen is overyhyped and overrated, especially as Moore's own Swamp Thing run blows it away.
WATCHMEN page, wow!! Congrats!
Love all 9 panels of this historic page!
A nine panel New Year stunner if I have ever seen it! Congrats on a piece of comic book history :)
Like you, I've never been a fan of Watchmen for the story or the art (though there are some pages with great emotional/visual storytelling, this one included). The thing I do appreciate though is the intricate planning that went into the series, from the panel layouts to the way pages mirror each other. That said, there's some good dramatic storytelling here plus the closeups along the diagonals, but I wouldn't have picked up on the tic tac toe O win. Thanks for sharing!
Stunning art and congratulations on having this piece in your collection!
Great Page Jeff
Oh, and here it is! Big congrats on owning a piece of the puzzle :)
That dialogue...tense moment, to say the last. Gibbons really pulled you in in these "quieter" scenes. Congrats!
What a moment on this monumental story!!!! Perfect 9 panels example!!!
So much great character development in this one single page. Wonderful!
Gibbons always had a wonderful sense of space, which really aids the storytelling in a page full of people. The opening shot of the distortion through a glass is fantastic visually and symbolically, but it's the beautiful angle on the fourth panel that does it for me. That balance of weighty black regions and faded out white background works so well. Great page!
Three important things in life: visiting the Pope, to have had the opportunity to shake hands with Jack Kirby and owning a Watchmen page... then you have cosmic energy....caramba carambita...fantastic page,congratulation!
