4. Moore in interviews has said he meant Rorschach to be satire on Ditko-style right wing vigilante.
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5. Moore also said in interviews he was surprised at readers who didn't get the satire, who loved Rorschach as bad-ass superhero like Batman
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7. But huge popularity of Rorschach (he is most beloved character in book) perhaps suggests book has meaning different than Moore intented
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8. "Watchmen" is work that has divided intents. Parts of book are satire or deconstruction of superhero genre, but others pure genre
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9. One of the things that makes Moore's work interesting is that he creates pastiches that aren't so much knock-offs as pure distillations.
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10. There are a couple of reasons why the audience comes to identity with Rorschach so closely.
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11. Moore is really good at finding core emotions of genre tropes: Rorschach is perfect distillation of bullied/abused kid turned avenger
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12. But beyond that we identify with Rorschach because he's the puzzle solver who unravels grand conspiracy behind the book.
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@anamariecox Thanks for doing the interview that was the spur to all this!
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