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I got this comic for christmas, and just finished reading it. One of the best comics I've ever read. The plot was gripping and the characters were so fully fleshed out. Also, I love how it ends! It's so refreshing to see the "villain" win. The style of the art wasn't really my thing - for the most part; some of the drawings of Rorschach I really liked - but they worked very well in from a visual narrative standpoint. Anyone who's seen it, let me know what you think.
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I agree, it is quite good. I liked Rorscharch a lot, even though he was rather racist and a bit homophobic, he was so much better than that Blue guy whose name escapes me. Dang, did that guy ever annoy me. The most powerful guy ever and he did so little with his power!
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The Reaver episode in the Firefly series always reminded me of the pirate story in the Watchmen.
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Well, he did succeed in his plan to force a temporary peace on Earth.
Whether or not that really "saved the world" is left ambiguous. Recall his last conversation with Dr. Manhattan (A.K.A. "The Blue Guy")...this wasn't the ending. Endings don't truly exist. And this peace is one based on a very false, fragile belief. Bought in blood.
This book is interesting, but I personally feel it's a bit overrated. I don't like how every female character (with the possible exception of Silk Spectre II) comes off in an almost exclusively negative light.
I don't think a convincing reason is given for _why_ the original Minutemen became so obessed with their costumed roles. (Well, beyond the sexual ones).
Still, it is an important work.
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He won in the short term. And I didn't really like that, because it had this smell of the ends justifying the means. Which you'd think the smartest man in the world would know better than to try.
One of the cool things for me was looking at the characters in contrast to the characters they were based on. Captain Atom and Blue Beetle, in particular.
As far as the negative light and the female characters... well, that's part of the dystopia that was created by the near-absolute power given to Richard Nixon in the story. I didn't like it, but it fit with the other nasty parts of the society the story took place in.
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I don't agree with that because (again, with the exception of Silk Spectre II), the flashbacks show pretty much every female character in a very...emotionally negative light, decades before Nixon took power.
I'm not saying that Moore is a sexist, don't get me wrong.
I'm just saying that this book (like "The Killing Joke" GN) comes from a brief period where his usage of the female leads tended to either portray them in an almost exclsively unsympathetic light, or use them as victims to motivate the hero.
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I think Ozymandias won even in the long-term. Sure, Rorshach's journal detailing the truth was out there...but look who had it. A tabloid. I really enjoyed it, though.
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