Blue Chi’s

I just finished reading Watchmen, the graphic novel on which the recent Watchmen movie was based. I did not watch the movie when it was out in the cinema a short while ago, but I’ve been wanting to read a comic or a manga book which was a self-contained novel and not something episodical which I would have to carry on reading for months and months. Watchmen was exactly what I wanted because it is a 12-issue collection of the entire story.

Watchmen tells the story about costumed vigilantes who were once active in fighting crime before the government passed a law prohibiting their activity. The story starts with the sudden murder or one of the Watchmen which led to fear of a conspiracy to eliminate all costumed crime fighters. 

I don’t think I ever read a graphic novel since I was a child, and I really liked this one. It was really artistic and smart, especially the way two scenes would be told simultaneously to indicate irony (part where the kid is reading the novel on the street and other events happening). 

I usually read in bed at night before going to sleep, but I found it hard to do that because, unlike pure text novels, you have to focus on each picture and analyse all the contents of the frame, which is mentally exhausting.

Now that I missed the movie in the cinema, I will make sure I get the DVD when it comes out.

My next book is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.