boilerryno 's review for:

Watchmen by Alan Moore

2.0

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My interest in the graphic novel has come and went and resurfaced and left again over the years. Someplace in the middle of one of the resurgences I convinced myself that I needed to read THE (as far as critical acclaim goes) graphic novel. I was finding myself enamored and blown away by Gaiman's "The Sandman" series (which I still refuse to finish because I never want it to end,) and bitter about the rest of what the genre had to offer's lack of depth and ingenuity. Watchmen is not a superhero comic. It is a mystery story with characters that happen to be superheroes. It read like a pretty standard murder mystery and felt very dated by art style and time period. I can see that it was groundbreaking for the reasons that it dealt with more serious real-life issue in a superhero comic format, but ultimately, I did not feel like I experienced anything extraordinary.