About 26 years ago when i was 5 as i collected them and they were unlike anything i've ever read in comics as they made my imagination open up then later i sold them at one of my local comic stores and got the tradepaperback graphic novel when i was 14.

 

You collected Watchmen when you were 5. Yeah. I believe that.

 

I didn't read Watchmen until way, way late, which is probably why it didn't have the same effect on me as it had on everyone that read it when it first came out.

Still, I recognize how ground-breaking it was back in '86-'87. I was 7 in '86, and it was all about TF:TM, for me.

 

HA!

Sorry but, this. I have a hard time believing that too.

Anyways, never read 'em.

 

Read it a few months before the movie came out. Loved it at the time, still love it today.

 

I read it (along with Dark Knight Returns!) back in the heady days of 1987, when I was a wayward 11 year old. TDK was (and still is) awesome, Watchmen is... neat.

And I doubt like hell any 5 year old was collecting/reading Watchmen. Other than being pretty colors, there is way too much blue dong in that book to not make any 5 year old bust up.

And the Black Freighter crap? I hate that as an adult, no way is a 5 year old going to be all THIS IS AWESOME! about it.

 

I only read it in about August/September. I absolutely loved it, the ending might be my favourite of anything I've ever watched or read, it makes a great book amazing.
Been meaning to give it another read actually.

 

I read the trade paperback a couple months before the movie was released.

 

Edit: never mind, the ridiculousness is just too much for me to type coherently tonight.

 

2008 I think.

 

I read the Watchmen graphic novel sometime before my brother and I went to see the movie when I borrowed his copy of the trade paperback. Currently crossing my fingers on getting my own copy for Christmas.

 

05, maybe 06.

 

I read it a few years ago when I worked at a comic shop. I liked it and all, but I wasnt blown away. I was surprised when it was announced as a movie.

 

Read them like in the mid nineties, close to the age of eleven when my uncle gave me some of his comics. Was really into Moore's Swamp Thing run, which led me to wanting to read Watchmen.

We got ourselves a baby einstein on our hands. My cutie patootie, this is a tough sell.

 

Bought a copy of the TPB about two weeks after I watched the film. An impressive work, but one I feel would have had more impact if I'd been around and reading comics when it was first published.

Still gets a spot on the shelf though, a cracking read. And Roarsach is dickweed; just for the record.

 

I honestly can't remember. Some time in the late 1990s, I'd guess.

 

Well, I believe him. Not about him reading the book but maybe looked at the pictures. I actually read the Dark Knight Returns in first grade. At the time I thought, "how the heck does Batman go from this place and all of a sudden he's in a different place in the next panel", and "he's gone insane, he's using guns now, replaced robin with a girl and picked a fight with superman". Cause, y'know,m it relies on dialogue and it's not for children.

 

2000.

I'd heard lots about it but couldn't be bothered to read it. Then a colleague from my new work (which started in 2000, hence easy memory recall) leant my his TPB to digest, it was very good so I bought my own copy soon afterward.

 

Yup and my parents had no problem of me reading comics for mature readers like this, Swamp Thing, Vertigo, Tales of Terror or whatever as they had no problem of me reading comics with nudity, graphic violence, gore and language. Same goes for me seeing R-rated movies since age four when i saw my first R-rated movie known as Fright Night.

 

Tried to, didn´t liked it, still don´t.

I like my comics book heroes to be ya know, heroes.