Watchmen

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Originally Posted by dubman

i think i've read through this about three times by now
it's got... so many problems
i'm sure it was stupendous when it came out but if thats supposed to be the best that graphic novels have to throw at me then it's pretty sorry. it's really fun to read and all but it's also pretty goofy with its characters.
and the movie looks even more impossible to make

I'd love to get into a more detailed conversation with you on this because I don't see it having so many "problems" or the characters being "goofy." I'm not saying it's perfect by any means, but it's one of the most complex and intelligent superhero comics to ever be made. It's usually called the "greatest comic story ever told" in the terms that most comic book geeks know--superheroes. That's what most fans read in 1986, and they've probably never read anything as deep and layered as this. And it blew so many of them away, hence the reverence.

It's all pretty subjective, of course, as with calling anything in any medium the "greatest," and it was released in a time when non-superhero comics hadn't really taken off as they have in the past decade or so. I think Art Spiegelman's Maus is the best comic book/graphic novel to have been told (or at least one of the best), and it has nothing to do with superheroes.

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

I'm on page 30 at this moment.

The short breaks from comic form to actual novel writing are throwing me off a bit. I'm sure it all comes together here and there eventually. ???

Without giving away too much of the story, the novel writing is part of the layering of the overall story. It will have more significance later on.