“Who watches the Watchmen?” It was 30 years ago that the comic that would change comics first hit shelves. Watchmen issue #1 had a cover date of September 1986 and got unboxed in a lot of stores in late August that year. The Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons limited series, which ran for 12 issues, deconstructed and reinterpreted the superhero genre and also proved to a wider audience that comics aren’t just for kids. Now Watchmen is taught in college courses. Watchmen demonstrated the power of the medium of comics. In Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Robert Harvey wrote that Moore and Gibbons “had demonstrated as never before the capacity of the medium to tell a sophisticated story that could be engineered only in comics.” Watchmen was in good company in 1986 — it was also the year Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Maus debuted. After several attempts to adapt Watchmen to film,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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