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Mar. 4th, 2009 09:08 pmThe first time I read Watchmen I was a very sheltered teenager - my brother Aaron was really getting into comics and bought the first Sandman paperback as well as that one, and both of them were too violent for me. I mean, I had to finish them, because I really really have trouble not finishing a book of any sort, but I had trouble sleeping afterwards. Anyway I wasn't impressed with either of them, but I really got into Neil Gaiman after I read Stardust in '00 and and then I met Reg and convinced him to get into comics, and so I'm fully on the Sandman bandwagon.
Moore's work, though, is still really disturbing and violent and frightening. I made it through V for Vendetta a few times, but I didn't want to pick up Watchmen again till recently. Hype, and all, you know. I did already know how it ended (sort of) and Reg gleefully pointed out that Rorschach was like a realistic Batman, so I went into it this morning and couldn't put it down. I recall the specific part which disturbed me so much I nearly stopped reading it - the part with the shrink going over R's origin, so to speak - and I sort of glossed over it. But anyway I had forgotten almost everything else, so it was a rediscovery yet familiar and awesome. The plot, I feel, isn't as juicy-sexy-cool as V, but it's better told and expressed. And of course the superhero milieu is one that has been recently rehashed in Hollywood as awesome and neato, while people are even writing novels deconstructing things, so it's good to see where it all came from.
Bottom line, pretty psyched for this weekend.
Moore's work, though, is still really disturbing and violent and frightening. I made it through V for Vendetta a few times, but I didn't want to pick up Watchmen again till recently. Hype, and all, you know. I did already know how it ended (sort of) and Reg gleefully pointed out that Rorschach was like a realistic Batman, so I went into it this morning and couldn't put it down. I recall the specific part which disturbed me so much I nearly stopped reading it - the part with the shrink going over R's origin, so to speak - and I sort of glossed over it. But anyway I had forgotten almost everything else, so it was a rediscovery yet familiar and awesome. The plot, I feel, isn't as juicy-sexy-cool as V, but it's better told and expressed. And of course the superhero milieu is one that has been recently rehashed in Hollywood as awesome and neato, while people are even writing novels deconstructing things, so it's good to see where it all came from.
Bottom line, pretty psyched for this weekend.
