oh low blow man.
don't get me wrong I love MAUS but it just doesn't give me my superhero boner that The Watchmen gives me.

Yeah, I'm not a comic aficionado so I try to pick my reads outside the superhero arena. Maybe that's why I wasn't that enthusiastic about The Watchmen. :\

Makes sense.
I know a lot of kids who didn't like The Watchmen because it wasn't superhero enough.

Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card
and
The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh.

I am still on my DG fix and working my way through his books (only for the third time!)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n5034.jpg

The bomb-Theodore Taylor it's a pretty good book.

I'm currently reading Watchmen but on the subject of Graphic novels, Y: The Last Man is an amazing one, which the director of Disturbia is creating a triology about to be aired next year. I hope.

I was addicted to Gemmell for quite a while, and my fave is Echoes of the Great Song.

I have recently been on a heavy non-fiction run, with my most recent aquisitionéfinish being David G Schwartz`s Roll the Bones: A History of Gambling.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg

Very well written book, full of anecdotal stories, an unflinchingly honest study of the human fixation on chance and risk. Easy to read, with a flowing format that moves forward chronologically in a series of engrossingly well-written chapters.

A book I highly recommend to any person with an interest in human nature and cultural trends/foibles.