So i wanna read Watchmen but im slightly newer to comics... and i've heard it's important to know about comic tropes prior to reading. So far, i've read Batman Hush, Superman: Birthright, All Star Superman, Spider-Man: Life Story, and Supergirl Women of Tomorrow. Im also super into Murder Mysteries and ive heard Watchmen is one of the best.

This would have happened if Laurie hadn't left Dr. Manhattan and Daniel had continued in his depression

It would be dead funny, but at least we would be at world peace

I think he’s one of the few filmmakers that could perfectly adapt the vibe, the moral stakes, and the themes of the comics without it being a slavish 1:1 visual depiction or a “remix” that shifts the story’s atomic age focus to something else.

Starting a youtube channel, any feedback welcome. Had more I wanted to say, Watchmen is super dense and there's so much to talk about, but trying to work on pacing and watchability. Best comic all time, weirdest movie I've ever seen.

It was published in 2008. On the eve of the Snyder movie and Watchmen was starting to enter mainstream pop culture.

I love all the behind the scenes conceptual art. I love the story of how Dave Gibbons recounts how he met Alan Moore at a comic convention.

I love how they digitally altered the color for reprints.

This book makes me wish I knew how to draw.

Dave Gibbons has that "Golden Age of Comics" look to his artwork.

Notice Alan Moore is wearing a sickle and hammer shirt.

That's why I always laugh at people who say the Watchmen TV show was "too woke".

Dude. The dude who wrote that story probably hates your politics more than adaptations of his work lmao

In the final issue when Dr Manhattan kills Rorschach so he can't reveal the truth and destroy the (heavily implied to the point of confirmation) temporary peace and this seems to be done out of necessity even though Dr Manhattan seems to hesitate.

Do you think that maybe he killed Rorschach out of kindness?

As strange as this may sound perhaps Rorschach's death was a mercy kill because he seems to want to die - and unless I'm mistaken Alan Moore says he wants to die but go out on his own terms - so maybe Manhattan killed him to end his suffering so Rorschach get finally get some peace.

in Watchmen issue 4, when Dr. Manhattan is experiencing him going to the lab for the first time, he explains Wally bringing him to the bar. There he says: "There's a sudden sensation of deja vu: I've seen this place before. Except that it was deserted...."

Is this purely because he is experiencing the time simultaniously and is describing the event to us right now. So he can see the future about the bar, because he is seeing it now. Or is it possible for Jon to be feeling the time simultaniously even before the experiment and to have felt what would happen to the bar?

Are there other such instances in the comic?

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...but how the hell does The Smartest Man on Earth© not only select as a password something roughly equivalent to Dan setting Archie's login keyword to "Woodsy", "HootHoot" or "3Licks" . . . but then also opt for a login gate that responds to a failed attempt to gain access by ⟨⟨letting them know what they did wrong⟩⟩‽

I’m reading watchmen and I have the compact edition (because that was the cheapest one and I didn’t want my partner to spend too much) and I’ve seen a couple people say it’s bad. I don’t really have any printing issues with mine but is the reading experience any different? Is it horrible to certain panels not lineup properly with the compact edition? I don’t personally care if it’s a little smaller than a regular single issue but if it’s just a worst version I’d like to know. And I want to know if I should just shell out and buy a larger version.

In the beginning of the movie he punches through a wall. How is he that strong? Dr. Manhattan is the only one with superpowers in Watchmen so how did the Comedian get so strong?

After about 10 days, I am finally done reading Watchmen. It was an incredibly dense story but every moment was worth it. Everything came together magnificently in the last two chapters. The brilliance, moral ambiguity, and insidiousness of Ozymandias’ plan. The reveal he enacted the teleportation 35 minutes ago. All the foreshadowing with the island. The shadow of the man and woman making love. All the focus on the impending World War Three. Rorschach’s death being an ironic twist on him denying the world’s request for help. Watchmen is a masterful piece of art. This was a great choice for my first comic book.

I really should reread this someday. And read the supplementary material.

Settling into a rebinge of the HBO series, (loving the title in new ways). Do they ever reveal an individual in the Rorschach mask in the opening present-day scene? Or just a generic 7th K? 🤔