Your thoughts on the graphic novel "Watchmen", please?

Question

Hi. I have never read a comic book in my life. 'Watchmen' is featured on many websites as one of the all time great novels, cartoon or not.

So, if anyone has read it, will I still like it if I've never read a comic book before, and whether you recommend it or not.

Thanks

Answer 1

Watchmen is a comic book, for sure. So if you HATE comic books you won't like it.

At the same time, Watchmen is amazingly intelligently written, and much deeper than most books.

When reading I kind of assigned different philospoher's to the different heroes in question.  

Rorschah: Kant

Ozymandias: Nietzsche

dr. Manhatten: Plato

the comedian: Sartre/existentialism

Either way, this is the only comic book I know that won a "Peabody"