![]() ![]() ![]() Every line of dialogue spoken is laced with multiple layers of nuance and subtext. The famous quote, ‘Who watches the Watchmen?’ could be applied to multiple leaders on either side of the political debate. ![]() The idea of the elite doing what they have to for what they believe is best for humanity, but having no one to question or monitor them. It is also interesting to bear in mind that the issues present in the book were contemporary issues at the time that Watchmen was written.įor me, that is the genius of this book just how relevant it is to the real world, both at the time it was written and today. It is a much scarier concept to imagine people like this actually existing in the real world which Moore does here using the political turmoil of the 1980s as the backdrop. Moore uses this book to deconstruct what it means to be a ‘hero.’ It is easy to look at Superman or Batman and wonder what it would be like to have Godlike powers or a huge array of crime fighting gadgets. The novel is considered by the majority of comic book fans to be a deep, self-referential work of genius. Watchmen is a seminal graphic novel written by Alan Moore and first released in 1986. ![]()
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