Watchmen takes place in a similar but alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon is still president and superheroes, except for ones employed by the government, are outlawed. That leaves some heroes, once ...

"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 "heroic." ...

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 ...

I hate superheroes,” Moore told the Guardian in an interview published late last week. These days, superhero comics think the audience is certainly not nine to 13, it’s nothing to do with them.

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 ...

The superhero series, which premiered five years ago this month on HBO, is essentially a sequel to Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins’ original, seminal Watchmen comic book that picks up ...

SAN DIEGO – Zack Snyder is standing inside a 9,000-pound, tanklike metal pod in the center of the crowded Comic-Con floor. He nonchalantly points out the features of the Owl Ship, a real-life ...

Since “Watchmen,” superhero comics have become more complex and darker, and multiple writers have attempted similar deconstructions. Sign Up to Breaking News.

Last week, comicbook giant Marvel said it was forming an international advisory board to boost the profile of its superheroes overseas. Marvel’s announcement came on the heels of the day-and ...

But Moore thinks superheroes should still be for children, despite his own involvement in shifting that narrative with "Watchmen" in 1986, which was written by Moore with art by Dave Gibbons.

These days, superhero comics think the audience is certainly not nine to 13, it’s nothing to do with them. It’s an audience largely of 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-year old men, usually men.” ...