By Hunter Boyce
Allen Moore and Dave Gibbon's Watchmen is a phenomenal work of art. The story begins with a morbid entry from the journal of Rorschach, one of many vigilantes to come. The entry grimly stages the first page with a gruesomely dark telling of alternate history 1985 New York.
Two detectives are in a penthouse, on the scene of a grisly murder that ended on a crimson sidewalk. While avoiding the police, Rorschach follows the case, the murder of one Edward Blake. As Rorschach follows the clues, the story begins to involve the other outlawed superheroes.
Two detectives are in a penthouse, on the scene of a grisly murder that ended on a crimson sidewalk. While avoiding the police, Rorschach follows the case, the murder of one Edward Blake. As Rorschach follows the clues, the story begins to involve the other outlawed superheroes.
Night Owl, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Specter, the Comedian, Rorschach, and Ozymandias are all pulled into the tale and become proponents of a quickly unraveling conspiracy.
The story starts as a detective tale reminiscent of Edger Allen Poe but quickly turns into a climatic blockbuster that will excite even the most apathetic of readers. But make no mistake, Watchmen is a novel that is worth more than the sum of its parts. The novel covers a wellspring of intellectual topics and social issues that range from the social disruption of 1970's America to the philosophical subject of the true nature of justice and morality.
Ultimately, Allen Moore and Dave Gibbon's Watchmen is a wonderfully pieced work that creates a uniquely bleak universe filled with vigilante heroes, uncompromising detectives, cold war conspiracy, and perplexing philosophies. That is why I am giving Watchmen
5 Stars out of 5
The story starts as a detective tale reminiscent of Edger Allen Poe but quickly turns into a climatic blockbuster that will excite even the most apathetic of readers. But make no mistake, Watchmen is a novel that is worth more than the sum of its parts. The novel covers a wellspring of intellectual topics and social issues that range from the social disruption of 1970's America to the philosophical subject of the true nature of justice and morality.
Ultimately, Allen Moore and Dave Gibbon's Watchmen is a wonderfully pieced work that creates a uniquely bleak universe filled with vigilante heroes, uncompromising detectives, cold war conspiracy, and perplexing philosophies. That is why I am giving Watchmen
5 Stars out of 5