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This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial bestseller, WATCHMEN has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE SANDMAN series.… (altro)
JapaG: After the Watchmen, Sandman is probably the graphic novel that has most influenced the adult comic scene today. It has similarly deep storyline about humanity from the perspective of one outside of it. Also the magnificent art contributes to the great collection.
TomWaitsTables: Like Watchmen, this is a superhero story. But it is the complete polar opposite of Watchmen; this is Alan Moore's love letter to the silver age superhero.
artturnerjr: Both deconstructionist superhero tales by Alan Moore. WATCHMEN is the more formally masterful work; MIRACLEMAN, the more emotionally devastating one.
Watchman è un lavoro complesso, un fumetto che va ben oltre il mondo dei supereroi statunitensi, per proiettare il lettore in una dimensione nuova. Gli eroi di Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons non sono buoni, e nemmeno vincenti: i super poteri vengono mortificati in ragione di interessi personali o economici; la stagione dei valori è terminata ed eccoli sparsi per il mondo a violentare ragazzine in Vietnam o ad utilizzare la propria fama per fini commerciali. E in Watchmen, ambientato nel periodo della guerra fredda tra Stati Uniti e Russia compare una nuova figura, un assassino di super eroi, un uomo con una storia drammatica alle spalle, alla ricerca di una nuova improbabile giustizia. Numerosi intermezzi sotto forma di articoli di giornale rendono ancora più densa la narrazione, la lettura è difficile, perché è difficile il mondo in cui si muovono i protagonisti di questa storia. ( )
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Who watches the watchmen? Juvenal Satires, VI, 347, quoted as the epigraph of the Tower commission report, 1987
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With special thanks to Neil Gaiman, Mike Lake, Pat Mills, and Joe Orlando.
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Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
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[spraypainted on wall] "Who watches the Watchmen?"
"Looked at the 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. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us." (Ch. VI, pg26)
"All this, it could be gone: people, cars, T.V. shows, magazines...even the word 'gone' would be gone." (Ch. V, pg12)
"Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing." (Ch. VI, pg28)
"We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet that can see the strings." (Ch. IX, pg5)
"Come ... dry your eyes for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the powers of Heisenburg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly." (Ch. IX, pg28)
"It's all we can do, try to help each other. It's all that means anything." (Ch. XI, pg20)
Until we transform our mere sightings into genuine visions; until our ear is mature enough to order a symphony from the shrill pandemonium of the aviary; until then we may have a hobby, but we shall not have a passion. (Chapter VII, p. 29)
“...you get to be a superhero by believing in the hero within you and summoning him or her forth by an act of will. Believing in yourself and your own potential is the first step to realizing that potential.” (Adrian Veldt) Chapter XI, page 8
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Some consider Absolute Watchmen to be a notably different work from Watchmen. There is currently a discussion in Combiners! discussing whether or not this separation is needed. Please join the discussion. Please do not combine the two works until this is resolved. Before separating check ISBN because there are bad titles
Please be careful in separating editions titled Watchmen #1, because many are not for the first single issue of the miniseries, but for this collected volume.
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This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial bestseller, WATCHMEN has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE SANDMAN series.
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