A review by sulinde
Watchmen by Alan Moore

dark reflective tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book is mostly interesting for its position within comics history. It's a bleak, brutal book set against a bleak and brutal development of superhero comics into an adult-focused celebration of reactionary fascism. To the author's dismay, it was more influential for encouraging this manner of comics writing than anything else but it was by no means an unimpeachable piece of criticism even without that distasteful legacy. It is an incredibly strange, incredibly violent, incredibly angry book and I don't feel that its merits as a piece of comics craft or as a bleak send-up of the contemporary momentum in superhero comics justify just how unpleasant it is. 

There's a place for grotesque, brutal, depressing stories--I don't feel like Watchmen makes it to that place.
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