Watchmen

I've just started reading Watchmen, after seeing an open casting call for some of the characters that appear in the book. While I do look like one of them (the Nixon advisor whose name eludes me at the moment -- I haven't gotten that far into the book yet), I doubt I really have a chance to get into a movie, though it would be cool. :)

Anyway, I cracked open the book and recognized it. I may have thumbed through it before, but am pretty sure I hadn't read it yet. Heh, I'd been harassing my nephew about hoarding the book in his room (it's his copy I'm reading), so he put it on my desk and has been harassing me the past week for not starting it yet. But hey, I'm reading a Java book and was in the middle of Brother Odd, the third book in Koontz' Odd Thomas series.

I like comic book films, though many of them suck. Sin City was bad ass, though I where it's concerned I should use the term graphic novel, rather than comic book. I should probably save the latter for Spiderman and The Fantastic Four.

Speaking of graphic novels, I haven't yet seen 300. Kaylin picked it up at the video store Tuesday, but I didn't want to watch it on my piddly little 27" screen (less when the film runs in wide-screen). Instead I opted to wait for a viewing at Darren's place, on his uber home theater. It'll be sweet viewing in HD.