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Of course it left me hanging for a few pages of black and white and then blood and AHH I was in it. Rorschach’s sober, smalltown-militia, doomsday words and the bloodied smileyface (ahh, so THAT’s the cover) made me feel dirty and helpless, hearing all of the best in humanity being cynically tossed aside, yet not necessarily wanting to put up a fight. Like the quickly zooming images, I was sucked into it before I wanted to be and couldn’t come up for air for a few chapters. (via Newsarama.com : The Comic Book Virgin Reads Watchmen )

Of course it left me hanging for a few pages of black and white and then blood and AHH I was in it. Rorschach’s sober, smalltown-militia, doomsday words and the bloodied smileyface (ahh, so THAT’s the cover) made me feel dirty and helpless, hearing all of the best in humanity being cynically tossed aside, yet not necessarily wanting to put up a fight. Like the quickly zooming images, I was sucked into it before I wanted to be and couldn’t come up for air for a few chapters. (via Newsarama.com : The Comic Book Virgin Reads Watchmen )