A review by bent
Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke

2.0

The first half of this book, dealing with The Middlemen, was very good. I haven't read The Watchmen in a long-time, but I could see how they synched up from my memory. The second half, concerning Silk Spectre, was terrible. The hackneyed plot, about gangsters putting something in the drug supply to make hippies into big consumers, was crap. It's also very similar to the plot of the movie "Josie and the Pussycats," probably not what you want to aspire to. I would give the first half of the book three stars and the second half one.