My brothers had it around for ages, and I never read it. I was rooting around in my brothers' storage space, and came across it, deciding to check it out.

The comic is excellent, although I can see a lot of the criticisms that people levy against Moore. The end is that a giant bio-engineered squid-thing, barely alive but with an incredible potential psychic energy is teleported into manhattan. The resulting "psychic shockwave" does two things - it kills like half the population of the city, and leaves all the survivors with psychic visions of a creepy alien race that seems to want to invade the world.

The heroes realize that this plan will indeed band humanity together and end wars, and that revealing the truth would only hamper that goal. They decide to leave the villain with his victory.

In fact, it's that last part that I call total BS on, and think it's beyond-absurd, but the rest of the book was exceptional, so I just accepted it.

After I read the comic, though, I realized that I didn't need to see the movie because the comic was plenty good enough. I don't need an 8th scoop of ice cream, much as I might love the stuff. I figured I would catch it with my brother if he wanted, but he had fatherhood stuff to do.

Kick-ass, I will see, but later.




I would've laughed my ass off at that too =)