Hasslein Books Releases Watchmen Timeline
By: Christina Mancuso Sep. 28, 2016
In 1986, the comic-book world experienced a profound paradigm shift, thanks to writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons. Gone were the long-held notions that crime-fighters always did the morally right thing for the intellectually right reason, that heroes and villains were rigidly defined constants, that good always prevailed over evil, and that happy endings were a foregone conclusion. In their place, there was Watchmen.
Since the release of Moore's seminal deconstruction of the superhero genre, others have revisited Watchmen's dystopian setting in the form of a film adaptation, role-playing books, prequel comics, and multiple video games, all built upon the foundation that Moore and Gibbons laid down thirty years ago. With DC Comics soon to bring Watchmen's characters into its mainstream continuity, and with a Watchmen TV show reportedly in the works, it's time to reexamine all that has come before. Rich Handley's Watching Time: The Unauthorized Watchmen Chronology, now available from Hasslein Books (hassleinbooks.com/pages/book_watchmen.php), offers: • A detailed history encapsulating every recorded event from all *orners of the franchisenot only the comics, games, film, and RPG books, but also viral videos and websites, trading cards, unproduced scripts, and other ancillary sources, some quite obscure. * A mini-"crimeline" summarizing the careers of masked crime-fighters and supervillains throughout Watchmen history.Videos