I've own the graphic novel for about a year now.

I should really read this before the movie comes out.

Whats this about? Ive never heard of it

Just spent a good part of the day reading up on it.

Looks promising.

To Mike:

 I would say that a high majority of comic/graphic novel readers would say that Watchmen is the greatest graphic novel ever read. 

The expectations for this movie are  going to be huge.

Graphic novel means comic book right? I don't mean that in a condescending way... I just don't know. 

I just seem to recall them referencing this in the O.C. 

To call Watchmen a "graphic novel" isn't quite fair...it was originally published as a twelve-issue comic book series in the mid-80s and only later collected. But yeah alongside the Sandman series, it's basically the closest that superhero comics have come to authentic literature. Really dark, richly symbolic and layered stuff, and the work that moved Alan Moore from a talented up-and-comer to a true legend in comic book writing.

And  Mike: yes, graphic novel refers to comic books, but it is a type of comic book that is usually meant to stand alone, as opposed to a collected edition of a comic series originally issued in installments, which is usually called a "trade paperback."

Narfish, that's how they all become graphic novels, though.

A series of comics spread out through a number of months following one story that are later collected into one are graphic novels.