I'm excited about the movie and can assure you that
the graphic novel is every bit as good as you've heard.
You can
read my take on it here.
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The author of this masterpiece, one Alan Moore, is a paranoid
left-winger (See V for Vendetta, for example), but the man can
write. Perhaps the character people remember the most
from the Watchmen is Rorschach, a man in a hat and trenchcoat
who covers his face with a mask of ever-changing ink
impressions. Rorschach has no superpowers or even the
genius and equipment of Batman. He is a man determined to
set things right and is uninhibited in his willingness to do
violence to wrongdoers. Rorschach was once a more
conventional hero, but he has seen too much evil in the world
and is no longer prepared to accept limits on his retribution.
This vigilante, full of retrograde opinions and mourning
for an America whose best days are behind her, is Archie Bunker
without the laughs. Rorschach walks along a street in the
red-light district and notes that he is offered French love,
Swedish love, and other exotic pleasures. But American
love, he regrets, "is like Coke in green glass bottles . . .
they don't make it anymore." He is dangerous.
And he is Moore's idea of a conservative. If it is
intended as an insult, it is one most of us can live with.
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