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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I re-read this for the first time since high school (20 years - yikes!), mostly to look into some of the supposed corollary to LOST, but also just because a re-read was long overdue. I had forgotten much of it, especially exactly how bleak it actually was, but I still ate it up all over again. It's riveting as all heck, and Moore & Gibbons did an incredible job on this.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault
dark
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This story is so well-written it makes me mad. Watchmen feels like a story most writers aspire to create but never will.
It's colossal, intricate, and deserves the often-repeated accolade "elevates the genre." Watchmen starts of with a brutal murder, and you're left feeling sorry for the victim. But as the story unfolds and new facts are brought to light, characters are shown in different shades of grey: heroes become villains, villains become sympathetic, and everyone has their own perspective and ideas on what is right and what is wrong.
Unfortunately, the story does all feel like too much for Moore to handle perfectly the entire time, and it loses some steam in the second half, and even jumps the shark a bit at the end. But overall, Watchmen has a reputation as being the thinking adult's super hero comic book, and it deserves that reputation.
It's colossal, intricate, and deserves the often-repeated accolade "elevates the genre." Watchmen starts of with a brutal murder, and you're left feeling sorry for the victim. But as the story unfolds and new facts are brought to light, characters are shown in different shades of grey: heroes become villains, villains become sympathetic, and everyone has their own perspective and ideas on what is right and what is wrong.
Unfortunately, the story does all feel like too much for Moore to handle perfectly the entire time, and it loses some steam in the second half, and even jumps the shark a bit at the end. But overall, Watchmen has a reputation as being the thinking adult's super hero comic book, and it deserves that reputation.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Do we need “heroes” or not? If so, what kind of heroes should they be? Where in society and psyche should they be located, and what should their relationship be to the truth and the rest of us? The pendulum swings, but these are the questions that keep Watchmen relevant today. That, and the existential threat brought on by the nuclear age.