Watchmen Book Review

Andy Lipocky

Watchmen Review

September 3, 2012

I am going to be honest, this is the first time I have ever read, or even picked up for that matter, a comic book. So I really did not know what to expect. I did not feel like I would be interested in this book at all, considering I have never really been into the fantasy world kind of things, plus the fact that I have never been into reading to begin with. I have seen the batman and avengers movies just like everybody else has, but I was never really able to dive into the comic book scene as a child, so I did not feel that I would enjoy reading this book at all. But man was I wrong. The action and anticipation of what would happen next came on every single page. I was hooked right from
Never mind. Answers soon. Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life. In the cemetery, all the white crosses stood in rows, neat chalk marks on a giant scoreboard. Paid last respects quietly, without fuss. Edward Morgan Blake. Born in 1924. Forty-five years a comedian. Died 1985, buried in the rain. Is that what happens to us? A life of conflict with no time for friends...so that when it's done, only our enemies leave roses. Violent lives, ending violently. Dollar Bill , The Silhouette, Captain Metropolis...we never die in bed. Not allowed. Something in our personalities, perhaps? Some animal urge to fight and struggle, making us what we are? Unimportant. We do what we have to do. Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was
I like this quote a lot because it really makes me think about the life we live today. When I read this, I think about what I view as the “American Dream” and how we all strive for this. Dreiberg mentions this as well. But in the end, none of us really get to where we originally set out to be. Life takes so many different routes and wrong turns that now we kind of just go with the flow, going wherever life takes us. The American Dream stays a dream and hardly ever comes to reality. There are always the select few who do end up there, but for the majority of us we are always searching for more. We try to make everything look like its perfect, when in reality we are far from it. “Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood.” Everyone lives life a different way, some of us just try to make light out of situations, like the Comedian did. At least he knew what was going on, while most of us are just oblivious to the