So...I guess I like this? I really don't know what to say. For some reason I like Rorschach the most and I feel like that makes me fucked up.
For the pace that it started off with, the ending seemed abrupt to me. I was kind of left thinking "...oh, is that the end?". For the majority of the book, it was at a really nice tempo with layered plots and character development, but once Veidt's plan was uncovered it seemed like it was kind of like "and he killed everyone and now the story is over and there is nothing else to explain or talk about, and everyone is just going to go their separate ways with little explanation". It kind of felt like a letdown.
There's a lot of violence, but it wasn't all that disturbing to me. The images were often gruesome and all but it somehow fit the grittiness so that you were never really shocked, which I kind of think is nice. There was also a lot of silhouettes of couples making out or having sex but I feel like with that part I was missing something. Maybe he just wanted NYC to be a city full of vices? Still, that seems too simple. Also, the smiley face. Was I just not paying attention, or was that never explained? Maybe I didn't have enough patience for all of these details...maybe I should go back and re-read. I'd kind of rather someone just tell me.
So anyway, I assume those movies/comics like Kick-Ass and Super and other lives-of-superheroes as real people type stories are all probably somewhat influenced by this. It's an interesting concept, and if Alan Moore was the first to think of it, that's pretty cool. I know that comic people love him and think he's a genius so I wouldn't put it past giving him that credit.
On an unrelated topic I went to Barnes and Noble to try to find some books and that store is SO FREAKING USELESS. I had about 10 titles to try to find, expecting that I wouldn't be able to find the majority of them but I could literally only find ONE. What the heck!? I guess I'm just going the Amazon route from now on.
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