Author: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
Translator: Ji-wook Jeong
Publisher: Sigongsa
257*188mm
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About This Book
Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'
Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but
Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better
writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than
Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned
for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing,
V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out
Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the
time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist
combination) and has continued to gather praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill
and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any
novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the
storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and
control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight,
that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality.
The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's
Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly
throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms
control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent
social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its
intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and
"studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic
book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the
writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it
keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
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