“Who Watches the Watchmen?” Well, WE do, and we have been watching for almost forty years!
The latest issue of the multiple-award-winning fanzine Journey Planet takes a look at the phenomenon of Watchmen, the groundbreaking, genre-altering comic by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins that brought countless lapsed readers back to comics — and heralded the age of the graphic novel.
Helena Nash, Michael Carroll and Pádraig Ó Méalóid join regular editors Chris and James on an issue packed with appreciation, understanding, insight and consideration of Watchmen and its impact on the world, with contributions from over a dozen fans and comic-book professionals, including Bryan Talbot, Bruce Dickinson, Antony Johnston, Todd Klein, Tony Lee, and Tim Pilcher.
Featuring exclusive new interviews with Neil Gaiman, Harry Partridge, John Higgins and Paul Levitz, stunning new covers by Iain Clark, and an original Choose Your Own Adventure supplement by Helena Nash, the bumper 96-page Journey Planet: Watchmen is now available to download from www.journeyplanet.weebly.com.
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I remember reading the first issue of Watchmen when it came out and not being super-impressed. Then I read it more closely, and noticed the background details — the newspaper headlines with things like “VIETNAM 51ST STATE”, the dirigibles. I’m one of a relatively small cohort who read each installment as it was serialized, poring over each issue again and again. And even so, for years afterward I would re-read it and find new things in it each time. I look forward to reading this issue and finding out things I might still have missed.
(I am convinced that the sequel TV series got Dr. Manhattan wrong. Oh, well, it was still worth watching.)