A New York Times Bestseller In an alternate world where the mere presence of
American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still
president, and the cold war is in full effect. WATCHMEN begins as a
murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the
resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes--Rorschach,
Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias--have to test the limits of
their convictions and ask themselves where the true line is between good and
evil.
In the mid-eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created WATCHMEN, changing the
course of comics' history and essentially remaking