Dusk Before the Dawn

UPDATE: Movie vs. book post here.

My wife asked me why I was reading a comic book. Watchmen by Alan
Moore and Dave Gibbons is by definition a comic book, and it is much more. I was looking forward to the movie adaptation, but frankly I do not see how they can do this excellent story justice.

It is a story of ordinary people putting on costumes to be masked vigilantes, of one physicist in a lab accident who becomes the worlds only creature with true super powers, and of a world continuing to fight and destroy itself, heading toward an impending apocalypse.  The story lines take place in an alternate history of the world, where the US wins in Vietnam and get closer to nuclear war with Russia. (more…)

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