WOW

Growing up a comic geek, I heard a lot about Watchmen. People talked about it in Wizard a lot back in the day. Everyone seemed to say how it was groundbreaking, amazing -- except no one I knew had it. I therefore held it in a distant sort of awed curiosity, like classical literature I had yet to read unabridged.

And then, I think it was last year but possibly the year before, I found, it, I bought it, I read it in one sitting and took it back to the store the same day. Why? Because I know I'll never read it again, and I'd be uncomfortable having it in the house because of several aspects of the contents, and because I figured some other seeker should get to read it. Someone who'll appreciate it.

I've said it before that I can see how important this would have been when it came out. I have respect for how the story was crafted, and I even like some of the characters.

That said, you can understand how I am surprising myself by how incredibly excited I am about the movie now that I've watched the trailer.

I am going to see this movie. I am going to make someone go with me so that I can squeeze their hand when the bits that scare me hit, and talk to them about it after so that I can calm down. The logistics of this are tricky, because I am absolutely not taking someone whose never read the book, or someone who doesn't like it, but god damn it, I want to see.