Watchmen (2019 Edition) (Paperback)

from bookworm12

"But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget ... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."   Before I read...

from girlunderglass

Ahem. Let's see. First I will draw your attention to the fact that I have bugged almost all members of this challenge (if not individually, then certainly through my thread) to read my favourite books. Take for example, Franny and Zooey - I have talked on and on about it. Yet, I have yet to write...

from sweetiegherkin

Watchmen is highly addictive - once I began it, I wanted to do nothing else but read it, but, alas, life and its duties called. The art work is beautiful, with an array of both dark and bright colors used, realistically drawn figures, scenes filled with extraneous background details (which do, ho...

from StephenBarkley

This was the first graphic novel I've read-and I'm hooked. This was a superhero story unlike anything I've read before. Most of the superheroes had no "super" in them at all. The cast was a mixed up group of people who used to get a kick out of dressing up and fighting crime (with one rather blue...

from Cecrow

Watchmen is often depressing, but understandably so as a product of its time. The Cold War was everyone's reality at the time of Watchmen's initial publication. This graphic novel admirably captures the ominous sensation experienced by everyone who lived through it. An ever-present threat hung ov...