Watchmen Fans!

[r4ndom]

I got hold of a pre-natal copy, read it as soon as my fingers had seperated.

Didn't appreciate the artwork as much as I do now, it really is awfully dark in a womb.

 

[Phase_9]

I read it when I was around 14

 

[cobra_ky]

my friend got the collection for christmas a few years ago, i read it straight through in a single sitting.

i must have been in my late teens or early twenties.

 

[sirsolo]

17, finished... *God time has been a horrible thing for me recently..* last month sometime? It was okay. Some nice lines. Some good characters. Not enough action for my tastes though.

 

[Figgis Fiddis]

Got it after I saw the epic trailer when I went to see The Dark Knight.

Fox can eat all the dicks. Anybody who has followed the production of this movie knows what I'm talking about.

EDIT: Read the whole thing in 3 sittings over the course of 2 days.

 

[CroutonsOfDeath]

I first read it when I was 10. It was the first graphic novel that actually interested me. Rorschach is easily my favourite character from a comic/graphic novel EVER.

I can't wait for the movie. I don't like Ozymandias' new costume, it seems to defeat the 'godly' style he went for, but otherwise I can't complain. The new Nite-Owl suit is awesome, Rorschach's design is perfect and so is Dr. Manhatten's. I can't wait to see what they do with the alien amongst other things.

 

[Adam Jenson]

I first read it when I was 10. It was the first graphic novel that actually interested me. Rorschach is easily my favourite character from a comic/graphic novel EVER.

I can't wait for the movie. I don't like Ozymandias' new costume, it seems to defeat the 'godly' style he went for, but otherwise I can't complain. The new Nite-Owl suit is awesome, Rorschach's design is perfect and so is Dr. Manhatten's. I can't wait to see what they do with the alien amongst other things.

the alien won't be making an appearance.

 

[Agiel7]

I read it when I was 14.

But I refuse to watch the movie for two reasons:

1.) Its directed by the same guy who directed "300." And I wouldn't be surprised if the guy just glazed with the same gaudy and ostentatious slow-motion effects and make the audience completely forget what the original comic book was trying to say.

2.) As a genuine fan of comics, I will refuse to watch the movie out of resepct to the source material's writer. I'm not exactly sure how many people know this, but Alan Moore was apocalyptically enraged when his baby was going to get the Hollywood treatment, and he's on my short list of top graphic novel writers (others include Pat Mills, Jean Van Hamme, Pierre Christin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Garth Ennis. Read the stuff written by these guys, you'll be blown away).

 

[Figgis Fiddis]

the alien won't be making an appearance.

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Then how does Veidt kill off half of New York? Nukes?

 

[Adam Jenson]

the alien won't be making an appearance.

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Then how does Veidt kill off half of New York? Nukes?

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If what I have read is correct, Veidt creates a machine that mimics the powers of Dr Manhattan and uses it to destroy New York, thus making Manhattan the third party and giving him another reason to leave Earth.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Read it when I was 18 on a day off from my summer job, walked for 3 hours to the best comic shop in the city to buy it.

 

[Figgis Fiddis]

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If what I have read is correct, Veidt creates a machine that mimics the powers of Dr Manhattan and uses it to destroy New York, thus making Manhattan the third party and giving him another reason to leave Earth.

I want my alien though. Stupid Hollywood producers altering the plot for no discernible reason.

 

[The Great Fa]

I just read it a couple of months ago and I was quite impressed. You know a comic book is great when it would have been just as good as a more traditional piece of literature.

I am, of course, both excited and apprehensive about the movie. No alien, eh? That kinda sucks; I always thought the ending was so interesting and original. Oh well, I guess this sort of thing is to be expected.

Although sometimes I wonder why they make these changes.

 

[Daymo]

I was 14, I read it for a graphic novel assingment for school. They let us pick our own books so I chose something I had always wanted to read but had never been bothered.

 

[TRR]

Read it for the second time a few months ago, changed my life, a bit. But I swear, if the movie doesn't live up to the book.....you'll see something on the news.

 

[Whobajube]

20 now, and a friend lent it to me a couple of months ago. I loved it, I'm pretty friggin excited for the movie!

 

[sheic99]

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If what I have read is correct, Veidt creates a machine that mimics the powers of Dr Manhattan and uses it to destroy New York, thus making Manhattan the third party and giving him another reason to leave Earth.

I want my alien though. Stupid Hollywood producers altering the plot for no discernible reason.

Just be happy that it is still set during the Cold War.

 

[Audemas]

For the record, The Smashing Pumpkins song, The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning is the best song for the trailer. The trailer with the Muse song, Take A Bow I did not care for even though I like Muse.

 

[DuncanRR]

I think I was 18 when I first read it, which would make it about two years ago. I had done a research paper regarding comic books in high school, and Watchmen kept popping up in all my sources. Once I came across a paperback copy a couple of years later, I bought it, read it, loved it, then lent it out to any friend that was interested.

Since it has yet to be returned to me, that gives me an excuse to get it in hardcover and read it again before the movie comes out.

 

[alexdakid6]

17 after the release of 300. Snyder and co piqued my interest- wanted to see what was so great.
Little did I know.