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Steve Murray and Barry Hertz have quite elegantly summed up the history of Watchmen from Moore's pen to Snyder's lens. Click the image below for a larger version:

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by dracula007

Mar 05 2009
6:56 PM

Watchmen without 'The Squid' is just not Watchmen.

Google WATCHMEN UNMASKED to find out why.

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Watchmen without 'The Squid' is just not Watchmen. Google WATCHMEN UNMASKED to find out why.

–dracula007

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If Snyder gets Watchmen even halfway close to right, I'm sure the 'Industry' won't have a clue to make of it. Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' is a masterpiece of cryptically...

–dracula007

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I'm sorry but you don't have a clue. Blake was murdered at least partly as payback for Hooded Justice, Ozy most likely having been one of his 'boys'. Google WATCHMEN...

–dracula007

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