Never-Ending Watchmen: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes

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 dec...