One word...Watchmen

There have been movies that i have been excited for in the past but i must say that Watchmen ranks high on that list. I will admit that i did now know anything about this comic before i saw the first teaser trailer. I was like who the hell is that guy that look like batman and what the hell is that blue guy. I saw it was a DC title so I was intrigued enough to look up about what it was. After a few months of seeing more footage and reading more about it i thought maybe i should read the graphic novel. Now this is at a time when I was just reading one comic (The Flash) but i was begining me resurgents into the DCU.

I pickup the novel from amazon and read the first chapter and that was it. I dont know what it was about it but i could not get myself to read anymore of it and i kinda forgot about it for a few months. I love the art and liked what i saw from the story but I think it had to do with the way it was worded, the narration by Rorschach, maybe just my frame of mind at the time. I really did want to read it and I was still excited by what people were saying and what i was seeing in the trailers. Then came the NY Comicon...that changed alot for me and braught me back full swing into the world of comics. After the con i read that novel over the next few days at work when i had down time.

I was totaly sucked in by this comic on my second attempted to read it. I reread the first chapter and this time it all made sence the way it was worded and subtext in the story really made me not want to stop reading. Im not going to make this whole blog a spoiler so i wont. The dialog in this book and the things that happen is nothing like any comic i ever read. When i was at the con i talked to many people who read the book or wanted to read it and said they could not read it or they did not want to. Let me say this book is well worth the time you will spend on it and if you have to google some of the things they are talking about in the book to understand it then do so.

I read that when Alan Moore wrote it that he did it in a way that it could never be made into a movie. After reading it i understand what he is saying. The way it ends and the crazy things that happen in the book i have no idea how they are going to translate to the big screen but i will tell you this i am more excited then ever now.

"WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?"
I know i am on March 6th.