The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[malignd at aol.com]

And just to settle my neck even more solidly on the chopping block, I 
would add  that Moore's claims for his own work, and the genre of 
'graphic novel' (a term Moore himself disclaims) or 'intelligent comic 
book' in general, are often overblown. Yes, there are some great 
comics, yes Watchmen is intelligent and
multilayered etc., but can it really stand comparison with the best 
actual  novels of the post-war period, with Roth or Bellow or Pynchon, 
with 'Herzog' or
'Humboldt's Gift', 'Gravity's Rainbow' or 'Mason & Dixon', 'The 
Counterlife' or 'My Life as a Man', the Rabbit Books, etc.? Surely the 
answer has to be, however
regretfully, 'no'?

No call for the final "?".