Dissecting Watchmen

So, my freshman seminar is a comic book class. Our first 'graphic novel' is Watchmen. Who watches the watchmen? Nobody! Guys like The Comedian take liberties with the power they're given. Guys like Rorschach kill people for the right reasons... but walk along the edge of psychopathic. True antiheroes are these. Every superhero is inherently human.

Reading the ending to chapter 4 is making ME feel nihilistic. As if I wasn't feeling it before... Jon's POV sounds like the voice of a man waiting for death to lift him up off his bed and carry him away. And yet there he goes - on with making new things and doing what other people suggest he do.

I think what I'm loving most about this book are the characters. I don't care about the story; I've seen the movie and know it. There is so much more depth into the characters in the book than in the movie.

Only up to chapter 4... must keep reading.