As part of our Watchmen Special (one more day till the we watch the movie and counting!) we decided to answer once and for all the question that is on everyone’s minds (we know you spend a lot of time thinking about this…) : what would happen if your favorite blogger became [...]

As we discussed yesterday, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’s masterpiece Watchmen is a revolutionary work of literature. One of the most beloved aspects of the use of metafiction, the-story-within-the-story of Tales of the Black Freighter.

In a world where superheroes are real and public opinion has soured toward them, what would comic [...]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Roman poet Juvenal wrote these words in his Satires, translating to the eponymous quandary:

“Who watches the watchmen?”

In the mid 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created the twelve book series Watchmen, changing not only the face of the superhero, but revolutionizing comics. Both of us (along [...]