Watchmen / Alan Moore, writer ; Dave Gibbons, illustrator/letterer ; John Higgins, colorist.

By: Moore, Alan, 1953- [author].

Contributor(s): Gibbons, Dave, 1949- [artist, letterer] | Higgins, John, 1949- [colorist].

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BookPublisher: London : Titan Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 volume (various pagings) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781848560062 (hardback).Subject(s): Heroes -- Comic books, strips, etc

| Good and evil -- Comic books, strips, etc

| Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc

DDC classification: 741.5 MOO

Contents:

At midnight, all the agents -- Absent friends -- The judge of all the earth -- Watchmaker -- Fearful symmetry -- The abyss gazes also -- A brother to dragons -- Old ghosts -- The darkness of mere being -- Two riders were approaching -- Look on my works, ye mighty -- A stronger loving world.

Summary: It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story — the story of The Watchmen.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
General lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	741.5 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00229431

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Graphic artwork brings to life the story of the Watchmen as they race against time to find a killer, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Originally published in 12 issues, magazine form, 1986-1987.

It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story — the story of The Watchmen.

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Library Journal Review

In 1985, as the Americans and the Russkies approach nuclear Armageddon, a trio of former masked vigilantes regroup in order to solve the seemingly unrelated murders of other ex-members living anonymously in retirement years after the government outlawed them. What they ultimately discover would avert World War III but still cost millions of lives. This is dark, disturbing stuff that presents heavy moral questions. The hardcover is more durable, but if the price is too steep, there's a more affordable paperback edition ($19.95. ISBN 978-0-9302-8923-2). Whichever you opt for, buy a couple; you'll need them. For all public and academic libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Warner's third packaging of a comic book serial as a graphic novel tells as trite a tale as Frank Miller's Ronin and Saga of the Swamp Thing (Booklist 84:598 D 1 87). It's a long, sinuous yarn about several costumed crime fighters (a la Batman but grungily workaday) trying to foil a plot to destroy them and maybe the world in an alternative 1985 U.S. over which Nixon, having won the Vietnam War and repealed the 22d Amendment, still presides. Totally squelching the impulse to toss the silly fantasy aside is Dave Gibbons' spectacular illustration. He emulates the style of hyperactive TV shows, changing point of view in nearly every frame and mercurially shifting to and fro in time in order to recap main characters' careers or to juxtapose the story's real world with the imaginary past of a horror comic that a minor character is reading. It's all flat-out dazzling: you keep turning the pages just to be surprised and delighted by sheer visual-narrative virtuosity, and you're never disappointed. Spielberg and Lucas should make movies this flashy. RO. 741.5'973 Comic books, strips, etc.-U.S.