Watchmen (TP)

Before the age of capes and symbols became commodified, Watchmen shattered the genre into something raw, cerebral, and unsettling.

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons crafted a world where heroes are fallible, brutal, and manipulated, and where the line between justice and control blurs with every page.

Set in an alternate 1985 where Nixon never left office and the Cold War still looms, Watchmen introduces us to the masked vigilantes of yesteryear—most of whom have been forced into retirement, outlawed by the very system they once served. When one of them is murdered, the unraveling begins. Rorschach, a paranoid and violent detective in a mask of shifting ink, begins his own investigation. What follows is a layered descent into the psychology of gods among men, exploring whether any of them deserve to be worshipped at all.

This collected edition includes all 12 groundbreaking issues, presented in full color with the original coloring style by John Higgins. For new readers, it’s an essential piece of comic history. For veterans, it’s a sobering reminder of how deep the rabbit hole of "heroism" can go.