Saturday Morning Watchmen

(h/t Eric, over at EOTAW, in comments)And, since I’ve been providing links to the rest of SEK’s commentary, which I find interesting if not evenly convincing, here’s his latest, on Dr. Manhattan as a figure of the reader.

Who Watches Watchmen Twice?

Uh, I guess that would be me. I had a friend who’d waited for me to get back from Bermuda before watching it, and then I was scheduled to take a group of students (my book group) the next night. I have thoughts but no time, and so I’ll postpone a longer...

Which Watchman?

There’s something inherently funny about the idea of a countdown to Watchmen.Tonight the book club I convene in the Residential College where I live with my family discussed Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen. I first read it as a 16-year-old, waiting...