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Alan Moore's Watchmen has been on my reading list for a while now, but when the trailer for the movie came out online it immediately shot to the top of list. Without knowing the story, the preview gave me goosebumps. It's just that cool looking.

Yesterday I finished reading Watchmen.

( Whoa. )

As I was reading, I liked that I could visually recognize things I'd seen in the trailer. I've watched it several times now just to see what else I can pin-point in the plot. There's actually quite a bit in there that gives important little things away, but only if you know what you're seeing. I'm definitely excited to see it.

I think now I may have to re-read The Sandman. For a while there I think I was a little turned-off of them, though. And I blame the two really annoying know-it-all girls in my comic books class. Thank god trademybike took it with me because I think I would have gone crazy without someone to commiserate with. But reading Watchmen really reminded me why I like comic books/graphic novels. There is just so much you can do in the medium that would take paragraphs of description to accomplish otherwise. I just love what you can do with visuals here. It makes me happy in a really dorky, English major kind of way.

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Also, I'm really not bashing Twilight since I did enjoy the first one a lot, but this quote from Robert Pattinson makes me laugh:

"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."