Watchmen: Absolute Edition

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. DC are treating their best stories with complete and utter respect and this is a must have volume for any self respecting comic fan. This oversized hardcover collection, packaged inside a beautifully designed slipcase, will be the cornerstone of any serious comic book collection.

This edition, not only comes in an imposing hardback cover, but is also packed with extras, including samples of promotional art for the comic, preliminary character design sketches by Dave Gibbons, and excerpts from Alan Moore's insanely detailed scripts. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Additionally, this grand tome will include 48 pages of supplemental material produced exclusively for the Graphitti Designs WATCHMEN hardcover edition and not seen since their original publication. There is quite a bit of supplemental material thrown in at the back of the book (interviews, original script / concept drawing highlights etc. For me though, the most interesting element of this package is not the graphic novel itself (I've read it an awful lot, starting with the original twelve comics.

Watchmen, the groundbreaking story from award-winning author Alan Moore that sparked the hit HBO original series, is collected in stunning Absolute format! However, in the run-up to the movie coming out I was interested to see what the new digital colouring and over-sized format does to the end-product and I can confirm that this is not the Absolute edition, it is the Definitive version. Rorschach, a half-psychotic vigilante, must convince his ex team-mates, now middle-aged and retired, that he has uncovered a plot to murder the remaining superheroes - along with millions of innocent civilians.

His current work includes Tom Strong, Promethea and the smash-hit The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the former heroes.Considered by many to be the finest achievement in sequential storytelling, Alan Moore’s Watchmen is a literary and visual masterpiece that redefined what superhero comics could be. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of WATCHMEN, the classic 12-issue miniseries by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, with Watchmen: The Absolute Edition, the first hardcover of this classic work in more than a decade! All the details are extremely clear (which is also helped by the larger format) it makes the first colour job look very murky and dark in comparison.