Watchmen

Set in the mid 1980s, the story follows a group of super heroes led by the mysterious Dr.Manhattan. A plot has been hatched to discredit and kill them as freaks. 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 fine pace 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.

Softcover. English. Random House Inc.. 2008. ISBN: 9781401222666. 436pp. Good condition in softcover. Book No: 50046