Never-Ending Watchmen: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes Brooker Will
Never-Ending Watchmen: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes Brooker Will What began with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel, Watchmen (1987) is no longer a single story, but…
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Never-Ending Watchmen: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes Brooker Will
What began with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel, Watchmen (1987) is no longer a single story, but rather a cross-platform, multi-media franchise, including a role-playing game and video game, a motion comic, a Zack Snyder movie, and a series of comic book prequels and sequels, as well as a prestige HBO TV series.Will Brooker explores the way that Watchmen expanded over time from the mid-1980s to the present day, drawing on theories of adaptation, intertextuality and deconstruction to argue that each addition subtly changes our understanding of the original. Can they ever be, as they cross over into another medium? Does it matter whether these adaptations are 'faithful'?
And as Damon Lindelof's series ran parallel to an entirely distinct comic book Watchmen sequel, Doomsday How does each version enter a dialogue with the others?