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Surgoshan:
Shut up about the movie, shut up if you want to go on about newer/older/better/worse stuff.

So.  I think it's awesome.  The first time I read through it *spoilers*I thought the wandering prophet of doom was Rorschach, but the different outfit convinced me I was wrong.  I kicked myself when I found out I was right.  *spoiler*

De_El:
I think one of the things that make Watchmen great, like a few of Alan Moore's other comics, is the way the world is established.  The reader is able to fill in a lot on one's own because the universe is just similar enough to the one we live in, and yet all sorts of things are different and information is delivered in a variety of ways. You don't just get a text exposition that lays it out, and the setting and other important events in the comic's world don't go totally unremarked upon, you have characters dropping references, cues from signs, the condition of buildings and architecture, the clothes people wear; it's exhaustively pieced together to vividly evoke the 1980s and yet that's not quite it. It sets up the events in the comic as it they could take place in our world, if only things had turned out slightly differently.

In general, the attention to detail in art and writing are remarkable.

SirJuggles:
Oh man I just bought and read it over the past holidays. With all the hype I figured the original had to be an interesting read. And it was indeed. It certainly raises a lot of good questions. Personally, I must admit that I agree with Ozymandias (the character, not the poster. Oh man that could get confusing if they come in here...). What he did maybe be considered horrible, but it also saved the world, and someone had to do it and bear the weight.

Apologies if this has already been discussed to death elsewhere.

Dimmukane:
One of my friends was apparently involved in a fistfight in his dorm over who the villain was.

Scandanavian War Machine:
awesome

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