Watchmen the TV series, created by The Leftovers’ Damon Lindelof, is not an adaptation of the comic. It was also, notably, mangled by Zack Snyder in a movie that misunderstood the source of the comic’s cynicism and was too enamored with its characters, while giving us plenty of glowing blue dick. The Watchmen comic is a classic, commonly credited with deconstructing the superhero genre and breaking open the door, for better or worse, to “grim” versions of superhero stories. The series, which debuts this Sunday, is based on the landmark 1980s comic book series of the same name, by Moore and artist Dave Gibbons. Those adaptations, however, are not HBO’s Watchmen.
Alan Moore is notoriously disdainful of cinematic adaptations of his work, and for good reason: With the exception of the Wachowski sisters’ V For Vendetta (which rules, despite flattening the political complexity of the original), every attempt to make a movie out of one of his comics transforms the original work from a challenging, gnarled story that evades simple understanding into an insipid, broadly commercial product.
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