Week 13

                This week I read Watchmen by Alan Moore and it was fantastic. I found the story very compelling and the setting just as interesting. The characters were great and unique as well. The comic was easy to read and follow along with and the colors and composition of each panel was amazing. The use of contrasting colors made everything pop of the page. I love that the author goes deep into the backstory of each character to show how they became what they are, why they have their flaws, and why the view of masked vigilantism has degraded within their society. I found the use of more adult themes appropriate to ground the story into reality. Rather than make the heroes flawless, and moral in every sense, the author does what no other super hero writer would do, and gives his characters quite disturbing traits, such being a murderer, a rapist, or even planning on committing genocide. This leads to another thing I found interesting, which is how the author pushed the boundary of what is considered good and evil, right and wrong. The story makes the reader question the morality of its characters and whether they should hate them or agree with their actions. If a man was to save the world, but in the process committed genocide, would we still see him as the savior of Earth? I think it is the way the author gets the readers to question what their reading, that makes comics such as this fantastic and worth reading. I would recommend this comic to everyone, whether they’re into comics or not.