Time magazine selected Watchmen one of the 100 best novels in all time. Watchmen is a detective story, scifi and superhero adventure, romance and a story of a world's end - everything that in same package, and much more. DC is planning to start to publish Watchmen-comics which are set to time before Moore-Gibbons -story. Alan Moore has said, that he is not going to write it.
Watchmen is set in year 1985 an alternate reality, where superheroes really exist. Superheroes are helped to win the Vietnam war, and the Watergate scandal is rebuffed. Tricky-Dick is still the president. Comics Code was never made, and horror comics, particularly pirate horror, is very popular.
Watchmen #5 Tales of the Black Freighter is a chapter in comics history. Panel order is symmetrical from the start and the end, and in the middle of the story is wide X-shaped panel. Composition is a mirror image from itself. The symmetry is not seen only in panels shape, but also in drawings and in ideas of the panels! (Don't try that at home.)
Other publications:
- Watchmen Leather Hardcover Slipcase by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore
- Absolute Watchmen Slipcase by Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd and Mike Essl
- Watchmen Portraits by Clay Enos
- Watchmen The Art of the Film by Peter Aperlo
- Watchmen The Film Companion by Peter Aperlo
- After Watchmen... What's Next? By Andy Frisk
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons tried to make Watchmen as unfilmable as possible, but still, Watchmen movie came 2009 by the director Zack Snyder, starring Malin Akerman (Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II), Patrick Wilson (Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II), Billy Crudup (Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan), Matthew Goode (Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Blake/The Comedian) and Jackie Earle Haley (Walter Kovacs/Rorschach).
Watchmen members:
- Rorschach (Walter Kovacs)
- Doctor Manhattan (Jon Osterman)
- The Comedian (Edward Morgan Blake)
- The Nite Owl (Daniel Dreiberg)
- The Silk Spectre (Laurie Jupiter)
- Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt)
Minutemen (1938-1949):
- Captain Metropolis (Nelson Gardner)
- Nite Owl (Hollis Mason)
- Silk Spectre (Sally Jupiter)
- The Hooded Justice (unknown)
- The Dollar Bill (Bill Brady)
- The Mothman (Byron Lewis)
- The Silhouette (Ursula Zandt)
And supervillain Moloch The Mystic (Edgar William Jacobi)
Other comic book series and graphic novels by Alan Moore:
From Hell
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
V for Vendetta
Courtyard
Killing Joke
Swamp Thing
HellBlazer
Captain Britain
WildC.A.T.s
Sherlock Holmes by Leah Moore
