Watchmen graphic novel by Forbidden Planet

Watchmen

Probably Alan Moore’s most famous comic, this along with Dark Knight really gave birth to comics popularity. Based around the notion "What would the world be like if super-heroes really existed?" this is a dynamic intricately plotted answer. Dave Gibbons’s meticulous art adds to the overpowering sense of detail.

Dave Gibbons' lauded artwork is magnificent; it moves, panel by panel, in a cinematic fashion, with 'zooms' in and out, which create an awareness of both the big-scale picture and the close-up detail. Moore similarly mixes a huge canvas of world-shaking events with the intimately personal scale.

It's magnificent and, along with Moore's V for Vendetta and Miller's Dark Knight Returns is one of the Big Three graphic novels which really did redefine the genre; its still the measure by which good writers and artists set themselves.

DC, paperback, 334 pages.

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Writer: Alan Moore | Artist: Dave Gibbons | Publisher: DC

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Reviews:

This makes my top ten list because it simply genius; it takes staples of general fiction and the superhero genre and imparts small tweaks to some aspects and brutal twists to others to leave us with a work which is still both a landmark and benchmark for those who followed.

Review by Joe Gordon