WATCHMEN
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Before it was a blockbuster on the silver screen, it was a blockbuster on the comic book racks. See how it all originally started. Delve into the minds of writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons as they combined to put together one of the seminal works for comic books.
Remember, these aren't your parents' superheroes.
"The would-be heroes of "Watchmen" have staggeringly complex psychological profiles: beneath his mask, the hard-nosed vigilante Rorschach is not a billionaire Bruce Wayne-like playboy but a troubled loner with a sociopathic streak. The gadget-dependent Nite-Owl is a sexually impotent pushover. Dr. Manhattan, the lone character who genuinely possesses supernatural powers (gained from a quantum physics experiment gone horribly wrong), is so close to godhood that he can appreciate human affairs only at a subatomic scale. "A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles," he observes. "Structurally, there's no discernible difference." -- New York Times
So come down to the library and find out for yourself. "Who Watches the Watchmen?"
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