Watchmen

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Call Number: Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes / Watchmen
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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The Graphic Novel That Started It All... submitted by Dragonessa on March 24, 2009, 12:11pm WATCHMEN is hailed as one of the finest graphic novels of all time. And I must agree with this. I read the novel and thoroughly enjoyed every page. I love every character from the twisted Rorschach to the brave Night Owl. Every character has his or her perfect place in the story and each is unique. I got interested in this novel mainly because of the recent release of the WATCHMEN movie. I must say the movie is amazing and is almost religiously loyal to the novel which I actually like. So hang the critics because they are BLIND to the fact that Watchmen deserves every award in the book! Okay...back to the review...all in all WATCHMEN is a stunning page turner that keeps you hungering for more.

watchmen submitted by nasuaada on July 27, 2011, 7:34pm watchmen is awesome! they're about superheroes, and a movie is out about them.

ground-breaking for its time, but bleak submitted by camelsamba on June 19, 2015, 8:10pm There are multiple graphic novels that show up when you search for Watchmen. Are they all the compilation of all the floppies that went into the volume? Not sure.

This is listed among a trifecta of ground-breaking works released in 1986. I read if for the Coursera MOOC on comics & graphic novels. Based on the lectures, I can see how it might have been ground-breaking. There really is some magnificent graphic work - such as the overall front-to-back symmetry in chapter 5, Fearful Symmetry. But I doubt I would have seen any of that without listening to those lectures - in fact, I probably would have given up had it not been for insights gained from the lectures. Overall, it left me feeling flat. I've never been enamored with the superhero genre, so that might be part of it, but the storyline just felt ponderous. And sexist. On the positive, there have been times since reading it where I was able to pick up on pop-culture references that I never would have gotten before. Not sure it was worth it, though!

(I did at times wonder if it served in part as inspiration for The Incredibles - at least the "superheroes forced out of work" part, because the overall feeling of this was way more bleak.)