Hi, I want to start a reading group on Watchmen. I lately saw Watchmen the movie and found it very impressive and smart. Reading also Jonathan Clark's interesting post , and considering its raised questions of society relation to violence, I thought it would be a good book to discuss.
It's not a book I would usually read as I never read any comic-book (graphic novel), but it is considered the Citizen Kane of comic books, and from a quick look it looked very interesting. I'll also mention that William is starting to organize a reading group on de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (post) Which will probably also start in a couple weeks.

For now, it seems the best is to simply have it as a running topic, each person responding whenever, with maybe adding a specific time for a meeting later.

(I am aware of the presumptions regarding graphic novels but hope many people will join anyway to try and see. I am not completely free from those presumptions myself, or at least until this book.)

Technicalities:
I'll start  subtopics for each section, so one can read and respond to them without spoilers. Please keep your comments specifically to that, and previous, chapters without revealing anything from the future. For a general discussion of the book, we can continue in this topic, without spoilers. There will also be a subtopic for a discussion of the complete book with spoilers allowed.

As everyone is using the same edition (with regards paging at least), we can just refer to page numbers.
1-12 would mean chapter 1, page 12. We can add a box number,  starting counting from the top left.
And, off we go.

Just in case people don't notice the link at the end of the page, here starts the discussion on Chapter 1 .



Chapter 2