10 Comics You Should Re-Read As An Adult

The prime example of a comic book completely misunderstood by the audience that praised it, Watchmen - despite being one of the most universally acclaimed comic books of all time - is often the one most in need of reevaluation by the very people who give it such acclaim. Especially its original audience, who likely read it in their mid-teens.

It's old hat at this point to advise someone to distrust anyone who says Rorschach is their favorite comic book character, but that's because it's true. There is absolutely nothing about Rorschach as a character that should be admired, idealized, or mirrored. Paranoid, arrogant, bigoted even by the casually bigoted standards of the 1980s, Rorschach is a bastard, plain and simple.

Watchmen - as fantastic a comic as it truly is - is not a standard by which other comics should meet. As you can see by casually glancing at the content being put out by DC and Marvel when they were following this mindset in the mid-2000's, such practice leads nowhere pleasant.

Watchmen is as good as everyone says it is, but not in the way many claim it to be. If you read Watchmen when you were younger, you definitely need to give it another go as an adult. Chances are good that there's a lot to this comic you either misunderstood, or missed entirely.