Watchmen is an American comic book maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987, and collected in a single volume edition in 1987. A television continuation to the original comic, set 34 years after the comic’s timeline, was broadcast on HBO from October to December 2019. A comic continuation of the HBO series, titled Rorschach, began publication in October 2020.
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Watchmen is an American comic book maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987, and collected in a single volume edition in 1987. Watchmen depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the U.S. won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never exposed. The story focuses on the personal development and moral struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government-sponsored superhero pulls them out of retirement. A commercial success, Watchmen has received critical acclaim both in the comics and mainstream press. A television continuation to the original comic, set 34 years after the comic’s timeline, was broadcast on HBO from October to December 2019 with Gibbons’ involvement. A comic continuation of the HBO series, titled Rorschach and written by Tom King, began publication in October 2020. In 2012, DC published a series of nine prequel miniseries, with various creative teams producing early adventures set before the events of the original series. In 2016, numerous symbols and visual references to Watchmen, such as the blood-splattered smiley face and Doctor Manhattan, are shown in the last issue of the DC Universe: Special Universe: Rebirth: Rebirth, which featured the characters Doctor Manhattan and Ozymandias. In 2009, director Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was released in a video game series, Watch Men: The End Is Nigh, to coincide with the film’s release.
Moore has expressed his displeasure with later adaptations and asked that Watchmen not be adapted for future works. In a retrospective review, the BBC’s Nicholas Barber described it as \”the moment comic books grew up\”. In a new issue of Watchmen issue #1, a new cover was published as part of the \”Millennium Edition\” 50th anniversary special of DC Comics, with the original price of USD 1. That issue also included the Graphitti Design limited-edition, slipcased hardcover volume that contained 48 pages of bonus material, including the original proposal and concept art. The second series integrated the Watchmen characters within theDC Universe, home to more recognizable DC superheroes like Superman and Batman, the company’s flagship characters. The last issue featured supplemental fictional documents that add to the series’ backstory, and the narrative is intertwined with that of another story, an in-story pirate comic titled Tales of the Black Freighter, which one of the characters reads. In February 1988, DC. published a limited- edition, SlipcasedHardcover volume, produced by GraphittI Design, that contained the original. material, as well as restored and recolored art by John Higgins, that had been created by Gibbons. The final issue of that volume was #1 in December 1988, and included the original cover for Watchmen #1. It has had at least 24 printings as of March 2017.
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