ubercat, I'd love to but even a day seems to be too long to wait for most people. You'd have to have the patience of an ancient buddhist monk to do so while holding the book in your hands.

I'd be all for reissuing it for 12 months as single books, that'd be really cool.

Totally brilliant. Seriously, it's brilliant.

The Watchmen turns comic books, religion, politics, world history, concepts like justice, morality, what it means to be human and your responsibilities, if any, to society, into a shattered funhouse mirror reflection of ourselves that is not dated in any way. It is an incredibly rich story full of literary and visual symbolism.

NOT CRAP no matter how much the movie ends up sucking.

I wish Terry Gilliam had managed to make his version of the movie.

My ex had my copy of in in Florida for the past three years, and now i finally have it back. Soooo looking forward to reading it again. NOT CRAP ever.

I reread this after seeing the trailer for the film and it really confirmed that the film is going to suck. There's no way it can encompass the genius of the book. If it's "just entertainment," then it's really reductive and annoying, almost disrespectful.

Anyway, I reread the entire thing last week and now I'm reading it again. So amazing.

When I moved a couple of years ago my mother-in-law arranged to have a few of the athletes from the school where she taught help. I intentionally put V For Vendetta and Watchment on the top of an unsealed box of books so they wouldn't get beat up. They ended up gone. I didn't want to upset my wife's mother, so I didn't say anything, and those books were all that they took. But to this day I wonder if the culprit took them because he liked Alan Moore, or if he just said, "Comic books! Cool!" Maybe he sat down on a break, read a couple chapters and decided he had to find out what happened.

The film isn't going to suck. It's going to be good. It might be great. It may be wondrous. It has on off chance of being a true adaptation. It has a snowball's chance in hell of making all of the 350 million back in the US release.

ubercat wrote:The film isn't going to suck.

I don't think I've ever been more excited for a comic movie in my life.

Ever.

Watchmen is not crap.

Peripatetic wrote:

ubercat wrote:The film isn't going to suck.

I don't think I've ever been more excited for a comic movie in my life.

Ever.

Watchmen is not crap.

I was quite excited about the X-men movie, having grown up dreaming about one. I'm almost as close with this one. I'm not expecting it to blow my mind or anything, I've read the trade probably 15 times and could almost recite it. It's just nice to see something you love in print up on the screen and done well.

Interview With The Vampire did it for me, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did not.