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If you could only keep one and had to throw away the other, which would you keep?
John Byrne's entire body of work 52%  52%  [ 11 ]
Watchmen 47%  47%  [ 10 ]
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"Keeping" implies that you have either thing to begin with. Could we have a third option?

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Can we vote to have Moore and Gibbons re-do Man of Steel?


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By entire body, does it include the teeth he had yanked?

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Linda wrote:
"Keeping" implies that you have either thing to begin with. Could we have a third option?


Option 3 - Ignore both and watch every Star Wars film in one sitting.


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I put Watchmen. Maybe I'm in a cranky mood.

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After that first shot is taken, Byrne yanks away the original art and makes the kid cry.


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Watchmen. Even Byrne's best work is pedestrian and forgettable, not worth a second read. Watchmen is something I've read multiple times and will read again. And I'm not even the biggest fan of Watchmen (i.e., I think it's somewhat overrated). :)


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It's difficult for me being such an FF fan, a Superman fan and a hardcore Namor fan, but I would still pick Watchmen.


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I shall keep both. This is an impossible choice for me.


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I have to take Byrne.
Watchmen was Ok
but I saw the ending coming right up Broadway;
and if I can guess/know an ending, I'm not impressed.


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Noto wrote:
It's difficult for me being such an FF fan, a Superman fan and a hardcore Namor fan, but I would still pick Watchmen.


My gut reaction was "Watchmen," and I went with that. Then I thought about it a little more and realized that my collection would then be incomplete for some of my favorite characters. That collector mentality is just a bitch, sometimes!

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I'd go with a nice mushroom risotto.


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Easiest question ever. Hell, I'd take just the X-men stuff over Watchmen.

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Equally easy question for me. I'd take the collected works of Tony Tallarico over "Watchmen"!

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Wayne puts his finger on the crux of it for me. Byrne's X-Men run is the only thing of his I rate that highly.

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Byrne has done a lot more work that I've enjoyed over the years. Watchman is only a 12 issue series. I like Tom Strong better than Watchman, anyway.

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