Gamerace said: Watchman is a great but very rare comic. I'm just re-reading it myself. V for Vendetta is also good (see the movie too). Also you might be interested in the classic Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.

Yeah, those are the three even non comic book fans tend to like...

 

And Maus.  Maus is awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

 

I love Maus, I've read maus before and oddly enough I didn't even think of it as a comic book. That and persopolis I thought were great .

Oddly enough I've never read any of neil gaiman's comics, but I've read some of his novels and really liked them. Corraline if a great children's story that will totally be in my kid's library whenever that accident happens, and I really like some of his Novels like American Gods. But I just never really bothered reading any of his comic books even though I heard great things left and right about Sand Man. I just don't have much interest in the comic book format, but Watchmen I think might change that a bit.

Vagabond, you should check out Preacher. Probably my favorite long-running series of all time. The first 20 or so issues are pure gold. The entire series is available in 6-7 volumes now. Warning, though... If you're even slightly religious you will be offended by those books. :D

I've heard good things about Preacher too. Angel of death, bullets never miss, goes to kill god or some such. That one ALMOST got me to read comic books back when I was 16 or so, but I couldn't ever find it at stores. I'll have to look to see if I can find it now.

Im not into comics but i bought this after watching the very cool first trailer that came out, the watchmen novel is truly unique and epic, specially when you consider it came out over two decades ago, i will read it again before the movie comes out, i hope the movie delivers like the novel did ( highly unlikely )

The chances of the Watchmen movie delivering on the themes in the book fall somewhere between jack and shit.

It is a book I would like to buy and read sometime. That and R. A. Salvador's Drizt novels.

rocketpig said: The chances of the Watchmen movie delivering on the themes in the book fall somewhere between jack and shit.

Yeah I'm pretty worried about the movie. I haven't even finished the novel yet but I can already see that it's going to have too much going on to be turned into a three hour movie and deliver even a fraction of the actual story with any depth. It will probably be very stylish and cool though, just lacking the same depth of the novel. Which now a couple days later I'm loving even more. Some of these chapters are just so brilliantly written. I just read the chapter where osterman is on mars and you're seeing his life from his perspective of a timeless existence. The way it moves forwards and backwards and recognizes everything in between, and the cold, monotone, melancholic prose that drives into the future and past going forward and in reverse without ever skipping a beat, it was fantastic. I was glued to those pages....man, Screw you VGchartz, I'm going to go read something worthwhile.

The_vagabond7 said: rocketpig said: The chances of the Watchmen movie delivering on the themes in the book fall somewhere between jack and shit.   Yeah I'm pretty worried about the movie. I haven't even finished the novel yet but I can already see that it's going to have too much going on to be turned into a three hour movie and deliver even a fraction of the actual story with any depth. It will probably be very stylish and cool though, just lacking the same depth of the novel. Which now a couple days later I'm loving even more. Some of these chapters are just so brilliantly written. I just read the chapter where osterman is on mars and you're seeing his life from his perspective of a timeless existence. The way it moves forwards and backwards and recognizes everything in between, and the cold, monotone, melancholic prose that drives into the future and past going forward and in reverse without ever skipping a beat, it was fantastic. I was glued to those pages....man, Screw you VGchartz, I'm going to go read something worthwhile.

"The way it moves forwards and backwards and recognizes everything in between, and the cold, monotone, melancholic prose that drives into the future and past going forward and in reverse without ever skipping a beat"

 

     That's the thing many of these things would work better as tv series instead of as movies.  In Japan they tell deep stories through 26 episode anime series, but for some reason they rarely try anything as ambitious on American tv where things of this nature could be better told as they are on series like Lost, the first season of Heroes, and Dr. Who.