It’s dense storytelling, packed with visual and narrative motifs, and popularised the nine-panel grid that still gets used in modern comics on the regular.
To this day, Watchmen is still held in high regard for not only its deconstruction of the genre but for how well it is crafted.
While similar deconstructions had been done prior, such as Rick Veitch’s The One and Alan Moore’s run on Miracleman, Watchmen was the first to receive mainstream success and has gone on to be a perennial seller and even recognised by Time Magazine. Watchmen is a 1986-87 12-issue series – written by Alan Moore, art by Dave Gibbons, and published by DC Comics – which deconstructed the superhero genre. What Is The Difference Between Watchmen and Before Watchmen? Looking at these, you might be confused about what the difference is and what you should read first. There’s the original series by Moore and Gibbons and there’s a range of character-focused collections called Before Watchmen. If you fall into that second group, then you’ve probably done a little bit of research and seen that there are more than one Watchmen graphic novel to read. With all the buzz around the upcoming TV show, there’s fresh interest in the original comics with fans rereading it and many discovering it for the first time.
The series will act as a sequel to the 1986-87 classic and has been described by Deadline as “alternate history where ‘superheroes’ are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.” Thanks to HBO, the world of Watchmen, the landmark comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, will be revisited in the latter half of 2019 with a TV series.
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