TIME BEST NOVELS: WATCHMEN

Time Magazine Book critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo recently published their list of the 100 Best Englis-Language Novels from 1923 to the present. Surprisingly, and geekily, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbon's 1986 WATCHMEN mini-series/graphic novel made the list. I HIGHLY recommend picking it up and giving it a read. - it kicks ass on several levels. Its one of those stories that even non-comic reading folk love!
Here is what Grossman wrote about Watchmen:

”Watchmen is a graphic novel—a book-length comic book with ambitions above its station—starring a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes: the paunchy, melancholic Nite Owl; the raving doomsayer Rorschach; the blue, glowing, near-omnipotent, no-longer-human Doctor Manhattan. Though their heyday is past, these former crime-fighters are drawn back into action by the murder of a former teammate, The Comedian, which turns out to be the leading edge of a much wider, more disturbing conspiracy. Told with ruthless psychological realism, in fugal, overlapping plotlines and gorgeous, cinematic panels rich with repeating motifs, Watchmen is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium."

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