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 enlarge | Author: Alan Moore
Creator: Dave Gibbons
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  655 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0930289234
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5941
EAN: 9780930289232
ASIN: 0930289234
Publication Date: April 1, 1995
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 Great December 20, 2008
The watchmen absolute collection is great, even if it is a little expensive, it is totally worth it and very elegant.
Fantastic Story December 16, 2008
This is my all time favorite story. Everyone should read this before the movie comes out
Incredible - My First Ever Graphic Novel December 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first graphic novel I have ever read. I admit, I picked it up at Borders and I bought it b/c of the rave reviews on the back cover and b/c it had won an award. However, as I started reading it, I became completely engrossed. The characters are complex, dark and wonderfully fallible. I love Rorschach!
I have a few more pages and I cannot put it down. I have read that this is a gateway book into the genre and I can testify to the truth of that. I am already browsing to see what I want to read next.
Another beautiful thing about the book is the illustration. I particularly noted and appreciated the cinematography. So creative and refreshing!
Outstanding December 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amazing book. Lost my anciente collection a while a go, but this book is just a perfect replacement.
The Doomsday Clock is ticking!!! December 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm an avid reader and have been buying books (not comics) from Amazon for years. Once I had such an awful experience with a very famous, award-winning and respected comic that it kept me away from them for years. The horrible comic was not 'Watchmen' of course.
"Hmmm... It might be cool to see what the whole thing is about before the movie comes out" I thought after seeing the trailers and so ordered the book without any great expectations also because it had a very reasonable price... Boy, was I in for an awesome surprise!...
'Watchmen' is simply amazing. For me it has been the rediscovery of comics as a completely different medium with its own potential for novel narrative structures. Visually it is stunning and the story is very complex and multi-layered. They have done stuff here with the narrative that would be impossible to do in literature. It really is something else.
I was also surprised to find in 'Watchmen' many ideas that have been ripped-off (I know is a harsh thing to say but you can verify my claims for yourselves) by other popular pieces of entertainment like 'The Incredibles' or 'Heroes'.
I love film and I wonder how Zack Snyder's take on the story will work. It's going to be very interesting to see.
So, to wrap things up 'Watchmen' is visually awesome, its narrative is complex and engaging, it has a lot of action and romance and overall is very intellectually rewarding; and I insist: this is coming from somebody who is not into comics but books!
[I won't leave you hanging so I'll tell what the other comic was, the very famous comic that I had to endure and was awful beyond belief, with the worst artwork I have ever seen in any medium and a crackpot story that made no sense at all... it's called 'Sandman', stay away from it, it's the complete opposite of 'Watchmen' in every way...]
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