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for Watchmen DC Comics - Alan Moore

Rating Summary based on 7 reviews

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  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Raybid

    5 Stars Watchmen the finest graphic novel of all time 25/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Beautifully written, attention to detail in story and art, a moving read of tremendous power

    Disadvantages Disadvantages people may be put off by the fact its a comic, don't be.

    If you have never heard of Watchmen, prepare yourself for an introduction to a world of pure brain candy, you will go out and buy this and then personally thank me for bringing it to your attention. So it's a comic. Do not let this put you off. It is a fine work of literature that trancends any boundaries set upon it by mere descriptions of genre. The Watchmen Graphic Novel collects the full series of Watchmen Comics by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons. It is not a comicbook for children, infact some of the content is quite strong and it is recommended for mature readers. It begins ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Radishimo

    5 Stars The Watchmen: Did it live up to it's reputation? 11/08/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Rich, deep story and three dimensional, imperfect characters.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Be prepared for a long read. Although you will definitely enjoy it.

    With the critical acclaim that this graphic novel has attracted over the years, its reputation preceded it. So as I sat down to read it, my expectations were already sky high. Would it live up to its reputation? The first few pages were unassuming enough, the artwork seemed average; the writing was interesting enough to warrant continuing. A few more pages in, when I met Rorshach, I was fascinated by the guy. Right down to being slightly repulsed by his personal hygiene, or lack of it. After the first chapter I suddenly realised that I couldn't put the book down. Primarily I had always bought ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    formuladriver

    5 Stars Just impressive, and still is 09/08/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages All

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Who watches the watchmen? It's a phrase to think about. And it's the real motto of this limited series published years ago. Imagine yourself in the middle of a world, with only one being with superpowers, but a lot of people trying to be only a percetage of what the one and only superhero is. Mix that with a couple of people killed, mistery, maybe a complot to destroy faith on superheroes, and then you will get Watchmen. It's almost impossible to think that a comic written on the eighties is still on a full actual state of the art comic book, but it is. What the cominc book industry needs is ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    gigglybobby

    5 Stars Watchmen 30/05/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Created by the greatest writer alive today

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You think this is the best it gets, then read other works by Alan Moore

    ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING! This is the comic series that I thought was the pinnical of Alan Moore's career... until the next thing he did, then the next, then the next. The man is a fully certified genius! Ahem* anyway Watchmen was originally published as a 12 issue miniseries in the mid-eighties. It still remains ahead of it's time and is superbly detailed in every way: art, plot, characterisation and even literary and music references. The plot is too confusing to go into, but involves the death of a murdering, rapist "hero", a fully grown man dressing as an owl, a man being disintegrated and ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kolinkelly

    5 Stars THE COMIC FOR THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE COMICS! 17/06/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Completely self contained world.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages There will never be a sequel!

    Widely regarded as the definitive comic book for non comic fans 'Watchmen' tapped into the comic boom of the 1980's along with Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' and Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns'. Single handedly re-defined the genre by examining how the world would really react to having super-heroes in its midst. Completely self-contained, this graphic novel requires no other prior comic knowledge and can be enjoyed by any discerning reader. The writer, Alan Moore, takes us on a journey that crosses continents and his narrative is complimented by the precise artwork of Dave Gibbons that ... more
  • 14 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    hellmonkey42

    5 Stars The Only Adult Superhero Comic 19/12/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Layered, interweaving story, brilliant characterisation

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Messages not as clear as other Moore books (From Hell, V for Vendetta)

    I read comics when I was a kid, then went off them as I grew older. I got bored of superheroes, always winning their fights but never really defeating the enemy either. A few years later I came across Preacher. Then Transmetropolitan. Then Sin City. None of these featured superheroes or villians. They had gangsters, drug-taking journalists and a reverend trying to find and kill god. So I was wrong. Comics weren't for kids, and they didn't have to be about superheroes. Watchmen changed my opinion yet again. It features a group of, yes, superheroes, but not cliched children's superheroes ... more
  • 10 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stuzilla

    5 Stars Watchmen, never, well maybe at the weekends ... 22/02/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellently interwoven plot, great characters, THE graphic novel

    Disadvantages Disadvantages There's not enough

    I bought this graphic novel over 10 years ago, my copy looks like it has been well read, and it has. When I say to people have you read Watchmen they've often never heard of it, so I lend it to them. Then they become trapped, and before you know it, they are lending it to their other friends. If you have never read a true Graphic Novel this is the ONE, it is the Grail of the genre. As a thirty somethinger graphic novels reappeared at the front of the bookstore with this book and The Dark Knight Returns, both of which are fantastic novels, but Watchmen really kicks The Dark Knight Returns back ... more
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