The doomsday clock is set at five minutes to midnight as the threat of atomic annihilation becomes imminent in this masterclass of comic book writing and artistry.

Alan Moore is the most influential and groundbreaking writer in the comic book medium and Watchmen is rated as one of the greatest works of fiction of all time. The combination of Dave Gibbons incredible artwork creates an intense psychological thriller where the characters stand on the precipice of apocalypse.

When you consider the doomsday clock is now set at 85 seconds to midnight, the question asked by the poet Juvenal (born 55 CE) in response to tyranny, which this book reiterated at the height of the Cold War, is perhaps more relevant than ever: Who Watches the Watchmen?

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