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I picked up this book today for Austin to use on his senior paper and my personal enjoyment. It was a used copy but other then some minor creases in the cover it seems to be in pretty excellent shape.
I’ve always been more of a DC girl, but Austin’s romanticized the Marvel universe since we’ve started dating.
Barnes and Noble describes the book as an “oversized collector’s style guide[.] Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe, covers the history of the national obsession, the marvel influence on media, and the best loved characters including the Incredible Hulk and X-Men, and ends with a look at new worlds to conquer. Full of stunning 4-color photographs, movie stills, original comic art, and animation drawings, this is a vibrant and colorful tribute to the incredible cultural phenomenon.”
The book is dated so it doesn’t include any of the recent adaptions of Iron Man, Hulk, etc. or mention post production films such as Thor and Captain America. I guess the next superhero related book I’m looking into are both DC and Marvel Encyclopedias released by DC Publishing. While looking for information on more recent adaptations I found these Watchman related videos. My favorite is the Watchman Saturday Morning Cartoon (spoof?). I would not recommend watching it until you’ve finished all twelve issues as it contains several spoilers.
The website, Comic Book Movie, actually has some pretty interesting articles on its home page, I suggest checking those out when you visit the site.

Austin and I got to watch “Let the Right One In,” tonight. It is a Swedish, poorly dubbed, vampire movie. Poor dubbing is sometimes acceptable (like in the case of High Tension), so that was overlooked. Other then that I thought the film was somewhat mediocre. The movie was bloody enough but probably lost its intensity in the dubbing. Tomorrow my parents are leaving for Grand Lodge!

I’ve just finished the twelfth issue of Watchmen. My final list (continued from my previous entry) is: Dr. Manhattan, The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Rorschach, Nite Owl, and Ozymandias. After seeing the film adaptation I can compare not only the comic to the movie, but the actors to their characters. I’ll try and post a revised list based off the film characters once I get around to it.
Judging by Austins progress with the issues, it may move to DVD by the time we see it. He is currently on issue 3. For the last few days we’ve been reading them aloud over the phone.

I’m on the ninth issue of Watchmen.
So far, Dr. Manhattan is my favorite character, followed by Rorschach, The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, and Ozymandias. I’ll update whether or not things stay this way- my dad is an issue ahead of me and is hinting that my feelings about the Comedian may change in the next issue.

EDIT: After reading issue nine- Comedian is now my second favorite.
EDIT: After reading issue ten- I like the idea of the genetically altered Lynx, Bubastis.