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Dave Gibbons On The Origins Of The Watchmen
Matt Kaufman. , January 6th, 2009 12:05

Is there anything that he would do differently now? What is the future of the comic book? And, does a certain deity actually reside in Alan Moore's beard? Matt Kaufman talks to Dave Gibbons.

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Conan The Barbarian 1982

This film is begging to be read between the lines since writer/director John Milius' next project was the very paranoid Red Dawn. There is certainly the theme of brain washing as practiced by James Earl Jones' Thulsa Doom. Then again, the snake worshipers didn't exactly cast off the shackles of bourgeois decadence. There was a Conan character called Red Sonja...