So I read Watchmen, and by Jesus was it amazing. What can I write that hasn’t already been written about this graphic novel? It is writer Alan Moore’s most critically acclaimed piece, and this is from a man who made V for Vendetta, From Hell, and other such amazing works.
I really can’t write a review of this book, so I’ll just put some of my favorite quotes and few images to hopefully tantalize you, dear reader, into picking it up.
"... Waiting for a flash of enlightenment in all this blood and thunder."
"They spoke of a heaven , where once we all lived and died, sentenced for our sins to this pandemonium we call the world."
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Come... Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly."
My favorite character is Rorschach, but I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, so I’ll just put a quote from him that sums up his character really well: “Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.”
Go forth and read!
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Dibs on first borrow.