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Was Watchmen Re-Inked?

post #1 of 11
8/15/08 at 11:35pm
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Simple enough question I suppose, but wikipedia seems to not want to help me. Recently people have been scanning pages of the Watchmen comics and all the colour work looks far more vibrant than the Graphic Novel I've got. So were the colours muted when they were made into a GN or is this one weird foible of UK printing.
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post #2 of 11
8/15/08 at 11:38pm
The Absolute Edition was, I think. Maybe the scans are from that.
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post #3 of 11
8/16/08 at 12:24am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
The Absolute Edition was, I think. Maybe the scans are from that.
Yeah, Alex is correct.

The Absolute Edition was redone.
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post #4 of 11
8/16/08 at 12:25am
I'm guessing the re-inked bit in the thread title was a gaff, right?

The Absolute edition was recolored by computer, going directly off the original color stats, and supervised and approved by Dave Gibbons.

The original coloring on Watchmen, according to Moore and Gibbons, lost something in the transition from concept to printing. The Absolute version is definitely much improved as far as coloring goes, and represents what Moore & Gibbons were going for originally.
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post #5 of 11
8/16/08 at 2:59am
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I'm guessing the re-inked bit in the thread title was a gaff, right?

The Absolute edition was recolored by computer, going directly off the original color stats, and supervised and approved by Dave Gibbons.

The original coloring on Watchmen, according to Moore and Gibbons, lost something in the transition from concept to printing. The Absolute version is definitely much improved as far as coloring goes, and represents what Moore & Gibbons were going for originally.
What he said.
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post #6 of 11
8/16/08 at 8:53am
The weird thing I noticed with the Absolute Edition is that even though the colors are stronger, a lot of the more 3 dimensional effects were removed.

Check out Ch 1 pg 3--a lot of the highlights along Blake's body were removed as compared to the original graphic novel.
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post #7 of 11
8/16/08 at 12:15pm
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I'm not a comic book guy at all, I have maybe five graphic novels in total and that's about the limit of my knowledge. So sorry about the 'gaff'.
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post #8 of 11
8/16/08 at 4:28pm
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I'm not a comic book guy at all, I have maybe five graphic novels in total and that's about the limit of my knowledge. So sorry about the 'gaff'.
Spike, utorrent and comicrack could help you a lot. I am an illiterate at this terms and I only had secured Watchmen.
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post #9 of 11
8/17/08 at 4:03am
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I'm not a comic book guy at all, I have maybe five graphic novels in total and that's about the limit of my knowledge. So sorry about the 'gaff'.
No, no problem at all. I was just trying to figure out how someone could re-do existing black line-work on a computer...I know some folks do "digital inking" (like Jamie Grant on All-Star Superman)--basically enhancing pencil linework in computer to create simulated inks for effect. But to re-do already inked pages would (I guess?) be impossible without the existence of pre-inked scans.
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post #10 of 11
8/17/08 at 7:03am
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Originally Posted by Dax View Post
No, no problem at all. I was just trying to figure out how someone could re-do existing black line-work on a computer...I know some folks do "digital inking" (like Jamie Grant on All-Star Superman)--basically enhancing pencil linework in computer to create simulated inks for effect. But to re-do already inked pages would (I guess?) be impossible without the existence of pre-inked scans.
Yeah, I imagine you need the original pencils which are hard to duplicate.

Taking this topic and running with it, I've got the first of the two Dark Horse books on Inking. At the back they give 4 or so artists the same pencils and get them to ink it and it wasa interesting how different they all turned out.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-70...nd-Edition-TPB
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post #11 of 11
9/10/08 at 5:48pm
I own both, and the Absolute Edition looks way better color wise than the regular GN.
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