Read in March '07
Summary:
If you've seen the movie, you know the exact story. It's about a bunch of aging superheros who have all retired from their hero-ing duties. But unfortunately, someone starts killing off the heroes. The rest of the heroes try to figure out who it is and how to stop them. Oh, and P.S. it's a comic book.
Thoughts:
Good. Stuff.
It's a graphic novel, but it reads like a standard novel. It's a great overall story, a solid mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end. Even when you find out who's behind it all, you're still wondering what the hell's going on.
The Watchmen is a DC comic that was originally going to be about a bunch of the bigger characters in the DC Universe, but they decided that they didn't want to kill off the big names, so they created new characters just for this comic.
The only down side to this comic is the huge walls of text that come after each issue. Many of them read like text books, and bored the snot out of me. (I, like Jeff, actually skipped the one that was all about birds. No thank you.)
I highly recommend this book, though. If you're into comics at all whatsoever, you should read it. If you're not, you should still read it, because it's on Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels. It may be a slow read, but it's worth the ending.
Pages: Unknown (read too long ago)
Genre: Graphic Novel/Mystery
Grade: A
Would I Read Again?: Absolutely
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