V for Vendetta was okay, but didn't do it for me the way Watchmen did. Watchmen had the layered narrative, multiple-source, multiple-valid-interpretations things that I crave. V for Vendetta felt more specifically British, colder, like a rewriting of 1984. I liked the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen well enough. Boy, does that man have a grim worldview.

Rereading the end of Watchmen feels a little different now, post 9/11. I always remember the ending as hopeful, but when I reread it just now, I saw that the hope was at best a possibility.