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Swipe File: Watchmen Vs. Today's Fantastic Four

Published Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:00:49 -0600

Last updated Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:19:58 -0500

It is possibly one of the most famous scenes in superhero comic books as, with a line, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons flipped a famous cliché in Watchmen and ended up naming the "You Are Too Late" trope in the process.

And from today's Fantastic Four #642, the beginning of the final arc The End Is Forever…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently running a discount store sale in their gallery…

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself? If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

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