Friday, July 07, 2006

Who watches the watchmen?

Alan Moore's "The Watchmen" is the comic book equivalent of "War and Peace." It took me forever to get through it, but in the end, I was completely engrossed, and found it to be extremely satisfying. I was not a fan of the genre (nor do I consider myself a fan right now) but this is really high quality stuff. Of course, like most high quality stuff it will probably get made into a very low quality Hollywood movie very soon. I suggest that you pick up the book before that happens.

3 Comments:

At 7/09/2006 3:16 PM, jay said...

you mean like V for Vendetta? I love alan moore, great stuff

 
At 7/09/2006 6:54 PM, andrew@mit said...

the watchmen is one of my favorite books ever. note how i didn't say "comic books".

 
At 7/14/2006 5:48 PM, Ben said...

The watchmen was actually a fast, but engrossing read for me. Quite possibly the greatest comic ever written, by one of the most ingenius storytellers wrapped in a magician's cloak. He is the master.

 

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