Unlike some I have no particular quibble with taking Alan Moore & Dave Gibbon's seminal comic Watchmen and using those characters to tell new stories. The original stands on its own merits and always will. Indeed, the current Rorschach comic and the critically acclaimed Watchmen TV series suggest that sealing the original off from any further works would only deny us some expertly crafted additions to the canon. Is it snobbish, or perhaps gatekeeping, to expect Watchmen art to be held to a higher standard though? Is the original held in such holy reverence that to besmirch the Watchmen name is tantamount to heresy? Or can we put these characters alongside all the other pop culture icons and accept that they are simply tools to be used and that the resulting quality may be good, bad, or indifferent, just as with, say, any Batman or Spider-Man comic, regardless of the origins or high watermarks of the past? I ask these questions because Doomsday Clock , the somewhat controve
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