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Watchmen
by: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780930289232
ISBN: 0930289234
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: April 01, 1995
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: April 01, 1995
Sales Rank: 4
Studio: DC Comics

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. 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 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 gather praise since.

The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization 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 finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. 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 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 gather praise since.The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization 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 finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --MarkThwaite

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- Pretty good
This book needs to be read twice. The story is good, full of sad but true axioms, drawings are damn good, but more than that the story is not breath-taking, in my point of view. It can great movie though (2 parts feature...).

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- One of the greats
So there are only a few stories in comic book history that have a real lasting impact to the genre as an art form and this is one of them. The writing is amazing, the visuals are pretty darn good as well.

This is not just a comic book superhero story. In fact, it is really not about superheroes at all, but normal people trying to do good in the world.

If you are a fan of comic books, you have to know the classics, just the same as if you are a fan of English literature, you have to have read some Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

This book is well priced, a good read, and decently put together in this little compilation.

Also, the movie is coming out soon so you better read the book if you want to know what you are talking about here. It is being directed by the guy that did 300, and this story was once said to be "unfilmable" by the great Terry Gilliam, so I ... Read More

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- Countdown
As a reader still new to the comic book scene, I believe that comic aficionados can't refer to themselves as such without first checking out the works of the genre's most influential creators. With this mindset, I read Alan Moore's "Watchmen"--featuring artwork by Dave Gibbons--the critically-acclaimed graphic novel set in 1980's New York. In a world where superheroes are real, the government has stepped in and forced costumed crimefighters to hang up their capes for good. Now a team of former heroes reunite when someone starts bumping them off. The stories of Rorschach, a masked vigilate similar to the Question; the Comedian, a military war hero; Dr. Manhattan, an omnipotent being; and others are told as they search for their "masked killer" while racing to avert World War III.

Moore's main story seems to not only visualize the superhero's lot in the real world, but also the world that we're becoming, ... Read More

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- Ambitious and Addled
People told me that this would be the ultimate graphic novel experience and it was in a way, but dated Cold War elements have made this one a little topheavy. I wonder how the forthcoming movie version will play, or if the nuclear threat plot has been toned down or something? Time, or AICN, will tell, I suppose, but at the end of the day I found myself thinking, when the ridiculously contrived superplot was revealed, that how was this supposed to actually alter the course of history? At any moment any number of its complicated twists and turns might have gone wrong. Just like the Roger Moore Bond films, the villain brags on and on for hours at the end, detailing every move he made for otherwise we would never be able to grasp the extent of his skullduggery. Well, this "bragging" scene happens in every action show or novel now, but Moore disappointed me, I thought he was above such showboating.

The storyline ... Read More

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