NYCC 2019: HBO Got us Watching The Watchmen’s Throne

“Long live the idols, may they never be your rivals Stan Lee was like Jesus, Alan Moore wrote the Bible”

If you don’t know about Watchmen lemme learn you real fast. Back in 1986, Alan Moore’s Watchmen was (and still is) the equivalent to Drake’s album, “Nothing Was the Same” but for comics. There, now you’re up to speed. Watchmen legit changed the game for how superhero stories were told. A signpost at the start of the Modern Age of Comics (1986 to now), the implications of Watchmen rang out and still bang out to this day. There was the Watchmen movie back in 2009. Now in 2019, DC Comics’ universe is clashing with characters from the Watchmen universe. In case that wasn’t enough, HBO has come through with a Watchmen television series. Like I said before, Watchmen was so ill that 30+ years later, it’s still making hits. We don’t know much about where Watchmen is going as a show yet but we’ve gotten some hints so far. “Robert Redford has been president for 28 years. Cell phones and the internet are outlawed. Fossil fuels are a thing of the past. Costumed heroes were popular, then banned. Police wear masks to protect their identities and cannot use their guns without a dispatcher unlocking them first. Reparations were issued for racial injustice, and our country remains ever divided.”- Damon Lindelof (writer-producer) Who watches the Watchmen but make it HBO

What I like about this is that it isn’t a reboot but a continuation of the story. It makes sense to have us see what’s…