![]() The story follows the exploits of a group of (mostly) retired masked adventurers in an alternate version of our world where superheroes really did exist with one in particular, Dr Manhattan/Jon Osterman, helping win the Vietnam War for America, setting in motion a series of events that, as we join the story, sees the US and Russia on the verge of nuclear war (and Richard Nixon still in office in 1985). Not wanting to judge a book by its cover, but, even before you open the collection, it’s striking with its black and yellow with a splash of red artwork and the size of the book which is certainly heftier than most comic book collections (although nothing like the size of Moore’s From Hell).īeing one of the key works of the comics revolution of the mid-80s Watchmen’s reputation more than precedes it but even on what must be at least my fifth read it still feels fresh and is so densely packed with detail there are new things to find. In the past I’ve written here about Zack Snyder’s 2009 movie adaptation of Watchmen but, after watching the ‘ultimate cut’ of that recently I thought it was a good opportunity go back to the source, the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (and John Higgins) comic from the mid-1980s, once again. ![]()
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