When English writer Alan Moore ( Swamp Thing) came up with the idea for a murder mystery set in the realm of costumed heroes, he drafted a proposal for DC Comics editors that used characters from Charlton Comics, a lesser-known line of titles featuring more obscure characters like Blue Beetle and the Atom that DC had recently acquired. Watchmen was originally supposed to feature familiar faces.
Instead of flawless heroics, its protagonists-including the psychotic vigilante Rorschach, the near-omniscient Doctor Manhattan, the ineffectual Nite Owl-struggle with self-doubt and personality conflicts after one of their own is murdered.Ĭoinciding with the 10th anniversary of Zack Snyder's 2009 movie adaptation, plus the pending arrival of an HBO series, we’re taking a look at a few things you might not know about Moore and Gibbons’s seminal work. Writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen-which was released by DC Comics as a 12-issue limited series in 19 and eventually collected into paperback-w as a radical deconstruction of the comic book medium.
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