Watchmen: Absolute Edition

from the_terrible_trivium

As good as any "real" novel I've read, just about. Dense and fascinating.

from JonArnold

It's only when we're young that most of us dream of changing the world in a major way, then we grow up and realise the near impossibility of it. But sometimes, just sometimes it all works out and someone gets to make that profound change. Comics are merely a mass media artform, hardly the most vi...

from Snakeshands

Fanatically, obsessively plotted and structured. Completely morally terrifying. And sometimes searingly funny in the midst of the very bleak Reagan-era political world it occupies.Like a whole strain of great, great authors of the 20th century, Moore takes an encyclopedic knowledge of the entire ...

from rtylerragan

this book completely destroys the term comic book. It is a graphic novel, digging way deeper into the lives of the characters than most actual novels do. It is a very rewarding read that gets more interesting with every page. If you think you are too mature for a super hero story you are wrong. R...

from dk_phoenix

It took me well over a year to finish this book. No, I'm not joking. I started reading it the week before the movie came out, back in March 2009. I read about halfway through... and felt horrible. Not about myself, but I started to get this sinking sensation about the world, the universe, about l...