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Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents....
by John Higgins, Alan Moore, Len Wein, Dave Gibbons
Every so often, I know a book is truly fantastic because it leaves me speechless once I'm done. This story is so multi-layered that there isn't enough I can say in a crummy little review to even touch the basics.
Watchmen takes our universal knowledge of the human condition, issues that have mattered or will matter to us all, and it strains the hell out of them in a way that we can utterly feel the gravity of the situation... Yet it achieves this with stories of people who dress up in costume, like cosplayers, and pretend to be super-heroes. Say that to anyone in this current age and they will laugh in your face. But despite knowing this fact, their stories are no less serious.
For me, the most astounding feat of Watchmen is the fact that it achieves this multitude of levels of well-informed commentary on global problems, with the stories of grown-up men and women who dress up and pretend to be super heroes! Maybe it's because the sky is pink and they live within the context of comic pages. Or, it might just be the insurmountable writing skills.
Watchmen takes our universal knowledge of the human condition, issues that have mattered or will matter to us all, and it strains the hell out of them in a way that we can utterly feel the gravity of the situation... Yet it achieves this with stories of people who dress up in costume, like cosplayers, and pretend to be super-heroes. Say that to anyone in this current age and they will laugh in your face. But despite knowing this fact, their stories are no less serious.
For me, the most astounding feat of Watchmen is the fact that it achieves this multitude of levels of well-informed commentary on global problems, with the stories of grown-up men and women who dress up and pretend to be super heroes! Maybe it's because the sky is pink and they live within the context of comic pages. Or, it might just be the insurmountable writing skills.