One Damn Fine Poet

If you like sordid tales of booze, horseracing, gambling, women, dames, broads, barflys, bar room fights, bad jobs, good wine (which you should drink while reading this), Shostakovich (which you should listen to while reading this), then this is the poetry collection for you. In fact any of his poetry collections are totally accessible tales from the bottom rung of society. I love this guy, almost as much as I love Mickey Rourke.

Brilliant Dialogue..Excellent Female Voice (as far as I can tell)

There are a variety of stories in here (that they of course made into a singular movie with Scarlett and Thora Birch). I was taken by what I believe to be an authentic teenage girl voice, if that voice was filtered through a weirdo cartoonist. Of course now I must re-watch the movie, but this collection is a gem.

Way Better Than Previously Thought...the 3 1/2 hour movie not so much

When I first read this I was none too impressed because it was not nearly as cool as V for Vendetta. That remains true, but there is enough here to recommend it to non-comic readers. Rorschach of course is the best character, and Dr. Manhattan remains the most annoying. The comic within the comic makes more sense in the grand scheme of things too. However, the 3/12 hour movie is painfully long and should have stripped the whole comic in a comic story. Unfortunately, the characters are not as compelling as Eve or V, but I understand and accept this novel's placement within the canon of comic literature.