Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170122113820

A small precursor; while The Godfather movie is a classic, The Godfather novel is very disposable, it isn't quite Twilight bad but it is in the same school as Fifty Shades of Grey, just a trashy B-novel air-port book. I bring that up because if any list includes The Godfather on a best literary list, I would strongly caution you to put on your skepticles when weighing it's worth.

As for Watchman or comics in general 2 things,

One; Alan Moore distanced himself from the book, he finds it overly immature and if anything views it as an embarrassment at how what he originally made to dress-down comic-book tropes became the Bible of the gritty realism crowd. That does not invalidate the comic but I think it should give pause to including it on any great art list. Simply put, Dada art - art that is specifically made to not be art or offend creative sensibilities (like making a replica urinal where the pipes are rearranged to flow back onto the user when drained, or a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa except with a mustache) should not be put in a normal art gallery, as in it was created with that in mind.

Two; Keep in mind these lists are sometime not about dressing down certain pieces of art but just separating them by medium. You would not include Hamlet on a greatest comedies list, said list would not be made under the assumption that Hamlet was a lesser form of writing, just not the type of writing they were focusing on for concision sake.