So I follow the subreddit for comics - no, not that one, the one for people’s shitty little homemade ones that never see the light of day, and what struck me as funny about this one was not that the comic itself was funny, but that someone would spend hours of their day slaving over this series of images

this creator was struck by the muse, but it wasn’t one of the good muses, it was the “I must draw the pope twerking” muse, that’s the one they got today, and I’m glad they decided to go with it anyways

rorschach was my favorite character in the watchmen but I hate that dave gibbons made his face look like my parents fighting

i am absolutely certain that someone else has made this joke before me but so long as I don’t google search it, it’s not plagiarism

Trivia: in the 1985/1986 comic series “The Watchmen”, a primary character, Dr. Manhattan, apprenticed under his father as a watchmaker, making him literally a watch man

Trivia: in the 1985/1986 comic series “The Watchmen” the series’ provocative question “Who watches the watchmen?” would later by answered: by audiences all over the world in 2009! Ha ha! Quandary solved!

Trivia: 2019 television series “The Boys” is just three of 1985/1986 comic series “The Watchmen” stacked together in a trenchcoat.

Trivia: 1985 is 1987. Look it up!

Trivia: In the 1985/1986 comic series “The Watchmen”, the character Rorschach was intended to parody exactly how insane it would be to have a morally inflexible serial killer enacting vigilante justice at random. However, in the comic series’s original ending, Rorschach punches Ozymandias so hard that crime dies forever, saving New York

Rereading Bone for the first time in a decade, I’m a little stunned that there’s a color edition of this out there. So much of the artistry of this series is in how deftly it uses just black and white.

Go read Bone. Read it in black and white. Share it with your kids.

editor’s note: these are images from a project I was working on in 2018, called northwestica, linked here