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Watchmen

Alan Moore,

Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer)

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Jan 15, 2009 Nanosynergy rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2009read, reviewed, science-fiction, 1001-boxall, hugo-award, graphic-novel

I picked this up for a book club, not realizing it was a graphic novel (shows you how out of touch I am with this type of book). Goodreads.com has a lot of informative reviews of Watchmen that cover anything I would have to add. The reviews here and elsewhere are largely very positive and impact of this book apparently has been significant. The setting is 1985 New York, post-Vietnam, and Nixon is president. Watchmen is a dark, bloody, grown-up comic book with flawed, disfunctional superheros ...more

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Jun 16, 2016 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: play-book-tag, fantasy, read-in-2016, pbt-fiction-100, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, graphic-novel, alternate-history, superheroes

A graphic novel told in 12 parts chronicling a group of superheroes. All except one of these superheroes doesn't have any magical powers, they just dress up in costumes and fight crime. The book drops the reader in on the middle of a story and it took me awhile to figure out what was going on and who everybody was. The main story is that someone seems to be killing former superheroes and one man, Rorschach, is determined to find the killer. The story was much darker than I was expecting. I also ...more

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