Watchmen

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Summary: the ultimate good vs evil epic
Review: in my opinion the best comic book series ever to be published. a rich tale with a rich cast that is so brilliant that one will be absorbed immediatly. plagued with mystery and conspiracy. this one will be a favorite for all time.

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Summary: GREATEST STORY OF ALL TIME!!!!!
Review: This story is so intricate and full of drama. Rorschach is the greatest character ever. Read this book. Just because it has illustrations don't pass it up. Please trust me.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: As noted by almost all the reviewers of this book, "Watchmen" is a comic experience unparalleled by almost everything before or, sadly, since its creation. The highest complement that can be paid it, I think, is that it crosses the boundaries between comic art and "real" art, proving that a grand story is not exclusive to novelists and short story writers. The "lesser arts" can hold their own when inspiration and craftsmanship work hand in hand. This is a wonderful comic that disturbed me as a teen and enthralls me as an adult.

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Summary: Candidate for novel of the century
Review: The 20th century has been rich in disquieting paradoxes. It is the freest time ever, with wide awareness of human rights, and the implementation of international covenants against torture, child exploitation, and aggression. Yet it is also the most dangerous time ever, in which armageddon (despite the end of the Cold War) is an omnipresent threat to destroy ALL life, leaving the Earth a featureless, radioactive billiard ball. Utopia and annihilation are seemingly both within our grasp. Brutality and sensitivity, both in unprecedented degrees, continually vie for dominance on the cultural radar. These threads of the 20th century have seldom been addressed as comprehensively in fiction as in The Watchman. Ostensibly a mystery-thriller about an alternate universe in which superheroes really existed, Watchmen, like the best fantasy, reveals neglected aspects of the world that we truly live in. It is unusual in form, transcending the comic medium to incorporate metafiction, futurology, and many of the narrative techniques of film. Finally, the ideas and ambition of the work are carried forth with yards of action, making it as entertaining as it is important. A beginning writer, serious about the direction of his or her own novel, could not fail but to be impressed and challenged by Watchmen, both in the scope of its ambition and the meticulousness with which it has been executed.

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Summary: It's the more greatest comics forever
Review: ES EL MEJOR COMIC DE LA HISTORIA...EXCELENTE GUION, EXCELENTE DIBUJO... NO HAY NI ABRA OTRO COMIC TAN MARAVILLOSO COMO ESTE

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Summary: It's the best comic book in the world!!!
Review: Alan moore proves that he can do amazing things, he just make a story that you cannot stop reading, and the art its realy good too

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Summary: A comic book which proves that comics are art and literature
Review: Some people discusses if Watchmen is the best comic book ever made, or not. Well, it is. But even this conclusion is not enough to describe the quality of this amazing piece of comic art. Watchmen is the prove that comics are not only for children, and that they are a medium that may be explored and developed to provide some of the best books ever write. I would put Watchmen with James Joyce's Ulysses, Cervantes' Dom Quixote, Dante's Divina Comedia, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Machado de Assis' Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas in the list of the greatest literary works.

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Summary: Comic's most brillaint writer at his best
Review: Look, you already know, or you should, that this and Miller's The Dark Knight Returns are the books that forever changed the boundaries and laws of what comics are capable of and allowed to do. What was once considered a medium for mere kiddie entertainment suddenly became acknowledged as literature. And deservedly so. Indispensable.

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Summary: Peeling off the mask
Review: Alan Moore manages to take the notion of a super hero and continue stripping it until we finally know what makes them tick. Sexuality, psychosis, technology, and life gets the full examination. Simply amazing. I've never tired of reading this book. And each time, I manage to find something new and complext about it.

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Summary: Who Watches?
Review: Me for one. I've pushed this on every person I know, from teachers to family to friends, and most have turned it away because it has pictures in it. Their loss. This is a dark story, obviously, but it also has moments of unbridled humanity. It dissects everything. Life, love, death, war, comic books as a medium (name any novel that did such a great job of exploring its own medium), the superhero as a romantic/mythologic figure for the century... so much more. Every reading will reveal something else to you. I haven't read enough books to rightly judge it as the 'greatest book ever written'. However, I'm happy to call it the best book _I've_ ever read, and in its rich, meaty representation of an alternate 20th century, it gives us a painting of our world, and all the things that have made our century the most turbulent, dangerous, mind-numbing, and exciting ever. Vietnam, movies, Watergate, JFK, comics... nothing is left untouched. I've read it eight times. I'll read it again. So will you.