Millennium Edition: Watchmen

    (DC, 2000)
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To celebrate the end of one millennium and the beginning of another, DC Comics published a series of Millennium Editions that reprinted significant books from the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Ages of Comics. After making Swamp Thing one of the coolest comics of the first half of the 1980s and laying the foundation for what would become DC’s Vertigo imprint, British writer Alan Moore (Tom Strong, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)—along with British artist Dave Gibbons (Give Me Liberty)—turned super-hero comics on their collective ear with Watchmen. This twelve-issue limited series examined the nature of heroics—super and otherwise—as well as villainy and sexuality and insanity in a world not far removed from reality. Along with Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight, Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen proved that comics had grown up and were more than capable of dealing with mature themes.
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