Watchmen is to comic books what Citizen Kane is to cinema in more ways than one-besides having the reputation of being the best piece of American sequential art ever produced (certainly the best of the superhero genre), Watchmen mirrors Citizen Kane in its structure-starting with the death of a central character and working backwards.Īt the start of the book, it's hard to sympathize with The Comedian but though he is not the main character of the story, it's still in many ways the tale of his development.
In Alan Moore's brilliant graphic novel Watchmen, cited in Wizard: The Comics Magazine as the best American comic of the Twentieth Century, the plot begins with the death of a costumed vigilante (read: "super-hero") called The Comedian. The first thing I thought of when I heard this was The Comedian. "The world is a tragedy to he who feels and a comedy to he who thinks," was one of the main sentiments voiced by Dramatist Mark Cole he tied it into irony and tried to illustrate how the same event, given a change in time or perspective, can seem very different. The Watchman by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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