DC Comics owns the rights to Alan Moore's Watchmen, and over the past few years, the publisher has made several stop-start attempts to integrate Moore's characters into DC's shared universe; despite ...

But if “Watchmen’s” written history was going to be reworked for television to say that its first superhero in the 1930s was a black man in secret, there would have to be an explanation for ...

Extraordinarily, he did so just as the modern superhero industrial complex was coming into being. By 2009, the year of Watchmen’s release, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in the process of ...

HBO's Watchmen is a TV show based on a comic. And it also kind of isn't. The new nine-episode Watchmen TV show is inspired by the 1986 series from comic legends Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It ...

HBO boss Casey Bloys believes Lanterns will replicate the success DC has had at the Emmys with Watchmen and The Penguin.

Alan Moore and David Gibbon’s “Watchmen” comic was a superhero story that wasn’t about superheroes. Rather, it depicted a world in which vigilantes kept the peace, changing the course of ...

“Watchmen,” for those who have never read it or seen the previous movie, takes place in an alternate version of 1985 where superheroes really existed, but were neither “super” nor ...

Note: This story contains spoilers for this season of “Watchmen.” HBO’s “Watchmen” ended like it began: the boldest, blackest superhero story ever told on-screen. That’s quite a ...

In a staggering episode that upends the world of 'Watchmen' — and superhero lore — Hooded Justice is unmasked. Alan Sepinwall's recap ...

Who watches the Watchmen? Not Regina King. At least not initially. When the Academy Award-winning actress agreed to join HBO’s new “Watchmen” series, she had not seen the 2009 film of the ...