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(E) Richard Bensam
This diverse essay collection analyzes Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal graphic novel Watchmen from a variety of perspectives - as detective story, a Rorschach/Steve Ditko connection, alternate history, Hiroshima, the often-ignored role-playing game, the film, and other topics. Contributors include Peter Sanderson, Geoff Klock, Timothy Callahan (Grant Morrison: The Early Years), Patrick Meaney (Our Sentence is Up: Seeing The Invisibles), Julian Darius, and others.