Watchmen: Absolute Edition

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Additionally, this grand tome will include 48 pages of supplemental material produced exclusively for the Graphitti Designs Watchmen hardcover edition and not seen since their original publication.

For me though, the most interesting element of this package is not the graphic novel itself (I've read it an awful lot, starting with the original twelve comics. hardcover collection, packaged inside a beautifully designed slipcase, will be the cornerstone of any serious comic book collection. This book is what comics are all about and show how the product has grown in maturity with its readers.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This edition, not only comes in an imposing hardback cover, but is also packed with extras, including samples of promotional art for the comic, preliminary character design sketches by Dave Gibbons, and excerpts from Alan Moore's insanely detailed scripts. This Absolute edition features remastered line art and coloring overseen by artists Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, script pages, the original series proposal, character designs, promotional art, and tons of other extras. However, in the run-up to the movie coming out I was interested to see what the new digital colouring and over-sized format does to the end-product and I can confirm that this is not the Absolute edition, it is the Definitive version.

So, you've read Watchmen, you loved it, you obsessed over it, you've been kicked out of civilized gatherings when you refused to stop waving it in front of people's faces, telling them it was "The Most Important Comic Ever Written EVER! Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the former heroes. Considered by many to be the finest achievement in sequential storytelling, Alan Moore's Watchmen is a literary and visual masterpiece that redefined what superhero comics could be.DC are treating their best stories with complete and utter respect and this is a must have volume for any self respecting comic fan.