Watching the Watchmen: The Definitive Companion to the Ultimate Graphic Novel | 
| Authors: Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd, Mike Essl
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 582
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1848560419
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781848560413
ASIN: 1848560419
Publication Date: October 24, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Worth Watching the Watchmen November 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For Watchmen fans, Watching the Watchmen offers a gorgeous companion to the comics masterpiece, revealing excised pages, early versions of the script, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches and much more.
Gibbons deliberately skirts around the controversy that ensued the publication of Watchmen, which ultimately led to Alan Moore refusing to work for DC Comics because of royalty and character ownership disputes. While not averse to scandal, the consummate artist prefers instead to celebrate the work and its ongoing success.
While I would have liked to have seen more of Alan Moore's script for this seminal work, the art samples are stunning and a testament to Gibbons artistic skills. This is a beautifully packaged, superbly designed celebration of the Watchmen which should encourage fans to revisit the original work and see its pages and storytelling in a whole new light.
 An essential companion for my favourite graphic novel November 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I must have re-read Watchmen once a year since I first bought it and loved it, and thought there was nothing new I could now discover about it, but this book has changed my mind. I found it's a book to dip into, not read from start to finish in one big bite, but there's so much to see and pore over on every page, I didn't want to gulp it down anyway, lots of colours and textures and so much fine detail in every frame. Alan Moore gets loads of kudos, and deserves it 100%, but it's good for once to see Dave Gibbons get his time in the sun - a fantastic artist.
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