You’re almost invited to read it as if it were the tablet with the Ten Commandments on it (and frankly this Absolute Edition isn’t far off being that Big Stone Tablet with a load of Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Nots on it). Regularly cited as the Greatest Comic Book Ever, its status is almost beyond question. Watchmen has become a historical monolith a venerated monument to be studied and admired. With Watchmen Moore dared ask the question superhero comics had essentially dodged ever since their inception what actually makes superheroes tick? But the work that made most impact, that changed the perception of what could be done with comics and superhero stories was Watchmen. The 1980s saw that change with work such as Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns and Art Spiegelman’s Maus changing perceptions. Comics are merely a mass media artform, hardly the most vital of society’s cogs but they’d always been culturally significant, if sniffed at. But sometimes, just sometimes it all works out and someone gets to make that profound change.
It’s only when we’re young that most of us dream of changing the world in a major way, then we grow up and realise the near impossibility of it.
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