Hungry Brain

Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
(recommended on several graphic novel lists on Amazon.com)
I read this about a month ago. The art is more "typical"-looking superhero art, although the story certainly isn't. The Watchmen are costumed crime-fighters, but without the special powers that most comic book superheroes possess. The book is a great example of using the medium to accomplish things that wouldn't be possible in a different medium—repeated symbols, page/chapter layouts, and the like. The story is something of a mystery, so it's the sort of book you read once, and then read through again after you know how it turns out so you can catch all the references.

Fed to jhliu's brain | September 28, 2002