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Watchmen

Alan Moore

4.3 AVERAGE


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Irredeemable garbage.

Racist, homophobic, right-wing propaganda kind of bullshit. Full of homophobic and ableist slurs. The art is hideous. Every man looks exactly the same and are impossible to tell apart. Extremely disgusting ideas about and depictions of rape. There is a lesbian superhero who is dead before the book even begins, so we just speedran the bury your gays trope. Jon's a whole pedophile, getting with Laurie when she's 16 and he's almost 40. There's a scene where Jon, Laurie, and Adrian discuss the miracle of EUGENICS. Literally fuck this book.
Not a single likeable character. Maybe the boy reading a comic book who literally had no point being in the story at all?
Just an extremely long wanky rant about everything supposedly wrong with the world and it gets magically fixed by
Spoilerkilling millions of people
? Cool.

This is some stupid, worthless, edgy garbage that wants to seem deep but honestly doesn't have a clue. Some true white man foolishness, head-up-their-ass type material.
Waste of time! And again, it's SO LONG. I've heard so many great things about this series, so I really wanted to give it a chance and I kept waiting for some big thing to happen and turn everything around but this is just the most mediocre white man sludge of a book I have ever happened upon. Yuck.

And I really can't emphasize enough how there was almost no story here. I swear nothing happened at all in this book until the last ten pages. Even if you like all the edgy BS, I wouldn't recommend this book because it is so unfathomably long and BORING. NO interesting plots, NO interesting stories, NO great art. This book is nothing.

Not at all surprised to see a note by known creep Neil Gaiman in the back.
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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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
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One of the best things I have ever read. The complexity of the characters astounded me.
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