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 how popular culture perceived
the