Watchmen
by Alan Moore
Watchmen isn’t about specific superheroes so much as archetypes. It’s set in an alternative 1985, overshadowed by the threat of nuclear war
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“It’s arguably the most important comic book ever made. It fundamentally changed the way that the entire world viewed comic books and what they could accomplish, and everything that came after it is fundamentally different than all that came before it…Watchmen is a revelation. It takes the characters that had been left in the dustbin of comic book history, reinvigorates them, and tells a story of realism and verisimilitude. What would actually genuinely happen if Superman was real? What would happen if God was American? What would happen if you had vigilantes roaming the streets? What if these people accumulated some degree of celebrity?” Read more...
The Best Graphic Novels That Were Made into Movies
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