Hello All

One of the reasons that it has taken me so long to get into graphic novels is that I have dwelled so long on the nature of abstraction, what McCloud refers to as invisible ideas, represented by words. For the longest time I didn’t take the form seriously. However, I am one who rarely takes himself too seriously, and it seemed peculiar to my girlfriend that I could quote entire episodes of the Simpsons and yet hadn’t ever opened up a graphic novel. So, she lent me Watchmen to decompress with after reading a whole lot of Puritan lit. last semester, and oh my god…