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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5941
EAN: 9780930289232
ISBN: 0930289234
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: April 01, 1995
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: April 01, 1995
Studio: DC Comics
Sales Rank: 29
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Has any comic been as lauded as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns but Watchmen remains the critics' favourite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and recently From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to garner praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterisation is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling, rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the fine pace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it retains its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
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This edition is simply sick! Oversized Hard cover, exclusif content(48 pages of supplement), and many more...
I mean come on! U cant ask for more about a the finest achievement in sequential storytelling. This is not just a comic books.
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Fans of graphic novels have been crying out for the genre to be taken as legitimately literary for quite some time. Some of these works really should be taken seriously - Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, for example - and some really are nothing more than glorified comic books. As with any genre, there are diamonds and lumps of coal - and Watchmen is the diamond. If you only read one graphic novel, it should be this one.
Plot summaries and spoilers abound; suffice to say that this book ... Read More
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I picked up this novel in August 2008 after seeing a trailer for its up and coming movie. I did not have any expectations for this novel as I have never read a graphic novel before and in fact did not find out that a graphic novel was a long comic book until I bought it.
After the first couple of chapters I did not know what to expect. I liked the story but I did not see why everyone loved the novel. Nearing the last couple of chapters I could see why it is a classic and will be loved forever. ... Read More
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A cleverly written interwoven story, which hasn't really dated and rings even more true in today's current environment. Well inked as well.
It will be interesting to see how it translates to the big screen.
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In terms of graphic novels, I have read The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 300, V For Vendetta and Watchmen. V For Vendetta was very good, but Watchmen is AMAZING. Watchmen is probably one of the best books I have ever read. The plot is great, the artwork is great and the characters are great. I am really looking forward to the Watchmen movie that Zack Snyder is directing. I highly recommend this book.
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