Who Reads the 'Watchmen'

Think comics are just for kids?

I admit, rather ruefully now, that I was not “in” to comic books during my childhood.  Star Wars novels, yes.  Comics, no.  For a while my brother toyed with the whole comic, thing, and I remember the excitement around when our friend got the Superman Doomsday comic, but comics seemed to complex of a monster to tackle as child of the 80s and 90s, especially when the adventures of Batman and Superman were so readily available in a fully animated form. 

But with the recent deluge of comic-book related film-mania, I’ve felt a certain longing to be part of that “inner” circle that “gets” when a comic book movie is done right and "gets" when it's given the Spider Man 3 treatment.  So with the release of the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s epic Watchmen looming in the future, I decided to quit remising a childhood lost and set out on my own pilgrimage to the inner sanctum of iconic geekdom.

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