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The Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time: Watchmen

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J-Mac:
I never read any comic books, but now that I think of it, there was one I kind of did read. It's an interactive graphic novel done in Flash with music and sound effects.

It even came out on DVD with voice acting by some famous voice actors (I recognized 2 of the voices from Inuyasha).

It's called Broken Saints. Unfortunately their website has fallen into disrepair since the apex of their popularity. None of the links work, except the blog.

But when the site was up and running, they allowed you to download the chapters, and I still have them in my downloads folder. It's an 12-hour epic, broken into chapters (some of which are broken into acts) and in my opinion it's a very powerful story. It's definitely an adult novel (language, violence, nudity) not meant for kids or the workplace, but I think if you enjoy graphic novels (or even if you don't know you do) you ought to watch it.

I have never been into comic books/graphic novels but I thoroughly enjoyed Broken Saints. I'll even admit that near the end this one had me in tears. :-[ I wholeheartedly recommend it! :Thmbsup: :up:

Link: Broken Saints.rar (186 MB)
MD5: bd2d5ce0151034456db99c7522206a0b

Just click the chapter HTM files from the root directory, they will attempt to popup a new browser window fit to the optimum viewing dimensions and you can start enjoying an awesome graphic novel!
-Deozaan (March 05, 2009, 01:41 AM)
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Not quite working as expected here. I clicked the Chapter 1 file - Introitus.htm - and it opened a fresh tab full-size in Firefox. But it didn't open the .swf file or do anything else. Nice graphics but I was hoping to see the Flash file play upon opening the htm file. Probably something weird in my setup here, but I can't see what. Any advice is appreciated!

Thank you.

Jim

Eóin:
I just saw the film recently, haven't read the book yet. My film review; excellent 4 star movie. Few if any Hollywood cliché. A bit philosophical at times but well woven into the narrative. I would disagree with Lashiec on the characters bit, I thought they were refreshingly down to earth and human.

All in all like I said, excellent 4 star movie, not quite a 5 star classic but perhaps the book is.

Edvard:
Hehe, I just saw this:

Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending.




;D ;D

mouser:
Many great suggestions here already. Let me add one not yet mentioned: The Walking Dead.
-Nod5 (March 15, 2009, 07:06 AM)
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I had a chance to read the volume one compendium of this.  Very adult material, but damn damn good.

mouser:
Any other recommendations for more graphic novels along the same lines as The Walking Dead?

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