Watchmen
by Alan Moore
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Author: Alan MooreEdition: Paperback
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Original Language); German (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 386607607X
Number of pages: 436
Publisher: Panini Verlags GmbH
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Book Review: exceeds expectations
Summary: 5 Stars
Every time I read Watchmen, I'm completely blown away. My first experience with it was a few years before the movie came out, and after finishing it (with superficial understanding) in the span of two days, I truly I believed it was the greatest comic book I'd ever read. A second reading a few months before the movie came out still kept it in that top spot.
Before reading it a third time recently, I was afraid that the movie had skewed my view. I was afraid that the amazing visuals and bad acting (the film's glaring flaw) would make me see the characters in a less-realistic tone, with the exact dialogue bringing my mind back to how it was butchered on screen. And my predicted fears came true, but only for the first two issues. By the third, I fell headfirst into Watchmen's universe, feeling like I did the previous times I read it. With the hundreds of comics I've read and reread since my last reading of Watchmen, I've still ascertained that Watchmen is the greatest comic book ever produced. Watchmen is filled with so much philosophy, symbolism, and character development, that no comic book has ever reached it's level of completeness. Every single panel is packed full of meaning.
I wouldn't tell everyone, "if you ever read a comic book, read Watchmen." It's hard for a person who doesn't regularly read (comics or literature) to digest. The book is so dense that only half of those I lent it to finished it. But, if you do read comics or books, and you haven't read Watchmen, you're missing out on the biggest thing to happen since the Lost Generation writers of the 1920s and 30s.
writing: [10/10]
art: [9/10]
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