Watchmen by Alan Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Watchmen
Book Review: 15 years on and it's still fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of what can be said about Watchmen already has been, but there's nothing wrong with emphasising the fact. Not only does it have an exciting, intriguing plot, but the novel also features truly fantastic characterisation and is loaded with political satire and social commentary. The art is also deserving of great praise; not a panel is wasted, and there is a truly insane amount of detail that you won't pick up on first reading (or even until somebody else points it out). A little static? Not really, it's intended to be ultra-realistic, and Dave Gibbons has a extraordinary talent for defining the human anatomy.
Moore is sometimes criticised of being a little paranoid, and that perhaps shines through, but he certainly seems to be aware of this (a lot of Rorschach's narration is deliberately OTT), and the story does have something roughly equating a happy ending.
If you want to change somebody's views about comic books, give them this, Maus and The Dark Knight Returns. You'll have a convert on your hands in no time.
Book Review: Watchman
Summary: 5 Stars
How on earth did one man re-write the superhero genre? We know Alan Moore did it but we just don't know how. Watchmen has been describes many times as a modorn master piece. Its an over used phrase - master piece - but its the only one that fits. This complex look into the lives behind the masks of original superheros is delivered with such superbness that it sits up there next to other classic such as The Godfather and Kingdom Come. Gibsons art work is subtle and defines the 80's style.Watchmen should be used as a teaching source in schools as it so plainly shows that comics are not just for kids and that they can tell deep, interesting stories with extensivly copmplex plots. Watchmen should be read by any avid novel reader struggling to start reading graphic novels.
Book Review: I was surprised
Summary: 4 Stars
I learned of this book when my friend brought it to school one day but I didn't get a chance to read it thoroughly. I had seen the art work inside and thought "eh, why not."so i got the book and read through, I was captivated after the first chapter. It is stunningly drawn and well written. I must confess when I kept seeing doctor Manhatten with out clothes on I was sickened. I did finish it though and I eagerly anticipate someone bringing it out again.
Book Review: Moore remains the king
Summary: 5 Stars
I have tried to work out why this has the quality almost everything else lacks and I think it's that Alan Moore doesn't refer to the field when he writes, he refers to his own complicated obsessions. Like Michael Moorcock, who admires Moore as much as Moore admires Moorcock, he is one of the wellsprings. He doesn't take his bucket to the common pool. He takes it to some very strange pools indeed and his dark imagination, which again reflects the work of the New Worlds writers like Harrison and Moorcock, with whom he's associated, is questing not for thrills or fresh wrinkles in an old security blanket but for something altogether his own. That is why he remains the king and why Watchmen remains a standard of graphic novels just as the Cornelius novels remain a standard for cyberpunk. This is nothing less than a classic in a field it made interesting. I had long since lost interest in comics until I came on Moore's work. He didn't just revive my interest in comics -- he revived the whole comics field! He deserves to be made a Knight Spiritual if not a new Lord! Buy two. One to read and one to throw at people who say comics are just for kids.Book Review: Quite simply the best comic ever.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Moore has proven himself time and again in the comic field, but this was undoubtedly his finest hour. Brilliant. Just brilliant.