As recounted in the New York Fantrippers Guide to 1000 Cult Places of Movies, Series, Music, Comics and Novels, the author duo brings to life scenes in the World-City for their heroes. In addition to the recurring characters, New York holds a central place in the comic book. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are then in tune and give their full measure to this fantastic saga. Published between September 1986 and October 1987, Watchmen consists of 12 issues. International tensions, plots, secrets and fights are at the heart of this fantastic saga crowned with numerous awards (Eisner Awards, Max et Moritz prize, prize for best foreign album in Angoulême in 1989). Around him then sail other superheroes later nicknamed Watchmen: the Comedian, the Silky Spectre, the Owl, Rorschach or Ozymandias. Over-powerful, he would be the equal of God. This distortion of history is the result of Dr. The United States did not lose the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon is still in power since Watergate was stifled and the Third World War is imminent. Alan Moore imagines a formidable uchrony (a fictional account of events from a historical starting point).
Watchmen experience depression, insanity, doubt, old age and corruption. It also torments them in their inner self. It partially takes up the protagonists of the initial series and invents for them a past but also a present and enemies. In 1985, after the purchase of a Charlton Comics superhero license, DC Comics Editions asked Alan Moore to imagine a fantasy story with characters with supernatural powers. Watchmen: the masterpiece of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbonsīefore it was a movie and a TV series, Watchmen was a comic book. Watchmen d'Alan Moore et Dave Gibbons (DC / Urban Comics)
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