Watchman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

I finished this one a couple of weeks ago. Everybody I talked to that had read it said it was best to read a chapter then sit it down and wait a while, then read the next. Well I don’t do that. I didn’t finish it in one sitting, but it was done by the end of the weekend. I suspect that my friends were correct, because I still don’t quite what to make of it. I went through a couple of years in my preteens being a pretty heavy comic book reader.

About the age of twelve or thirteen, it was about two issues into Crisis on Infinite Earths, I dropped all of my subscriptions to save up for a floppy drive for my TRS-80, man does that sound geeky, never did get that floppy drive. That was over twenty years ago so I’m far from a comic book expert. It’s possible I read books back then that were this rich, and just I wasn’t old enough to appreciate them, but this book blew me away. This book had a lot of hype to live up to and it does, there’s no doubt in my mind that this is a great book, but I can’t make up my mind whether I like it or not. The ending. I never would imagined an ending could be so climatic and anti climatic at the same time. This is the most frustrating ending I have ever encountered. That doesn’t make it a bad ending or ruin the book necessarily, but it does leave me asking “what the hell was this all about?”

The buzz is that the movie will have a substantially different ending. I can certainly understand why.

I think I’m going to have read it again.

http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289234