The Watchmen

[Samnell]

I actually read it for a class and went back over thing. Aside from the back covers, I noticed just about everything you mention. As I found myself saying to so many of my ex's jokes, I GET it, I just don't LIKE it. (the reason I think I might have liked it more with a longer investment is cognitive dissonance, but thats another topic.) I don't like stories where you are slowly invested in characters or plot threads which turn out to be completely meaningless. I'm sure it can make excellent art, but I don't feel it makes a good story. The only way I would have enjoyed Watchmen is if someone had told me - "this is a performance art comic book, don't treat it like a story you're reading, because it will fail as that." [/B]

Nice to see I'm not the only one. I read the thing in TPB about a year and a half ago and wondered what all the fuss was about. By the time we hit the third pirate sequence I was rolling my eyes at what a heavy-handed parallel story it was and didn't even care who it was paralleling anymore.