Watchmen: Gateway Comic

Tucanwarrior13

Well Watchmen has been the apple of comic collectors eyes for sometime now. When my Dad went to see The Dark Knight the trailer interested him, and he wanted to further poke his interest by reading the comic. He plowed through the book in a week (which with his work schedule, and load is quite the feat), and now wants more. I've got him reading Y: The Last Man, and The Long Halloween at the moment which he seems to love. I was thinking about mixing it up, and throwing him Grimm Fairy Tales, and Shadowpact. Good idea?

Anyone else have an experience where Watchmen became the Catalyst for a fervent comic book obsession?

Lucascraft

There is already a Watchmen thread which can be found here:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=53152

see317

There is also a "Suggest me good stuff to read" thread here:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=50014

Deicist

Change the thread title to 'Gateway comics' and we're probably good though.

Personally, I don't see how you can get much enjoyment out of the watchmen without already being a comics fan. Most of the book is playing off 80's superhero stereotypes and culture.

Servo

yeah, while we encourage you to ask these sorts of questions, there are threads for it already