![]() ![]() Watchmen, of course, already made it to the big screen courtesy of director Zack Snyder in 2009, and Moore and Gibbons' creation was expanded on by the Before Watchmen line of prequel comics in 2012, so with all of that in mind, what does a new take on its deconstructive world have to offer us now? In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Watchmen series creator Damon Lindelof explained why his world isn't just working within the same deconstructive super-themes already in play in so many other movies and shows. ![]() Now we've got plenty of superhero deconstructions to choose from on the screen as well as on the page thanks to the success of films like Deadpool and TV series like The Boys. Superheroes are a mainstream, blockbuster commodity like never before, which means that some creators have decided to subvert the heroic themes we see in films like Avengers: Endgame and Aquaman. Now, in 2019, we're more than a decade into the most fertile era for superheroes on the big and small screen we've ever seen, which means we've also entered into a deconstructive phase of the post- Iron Man cinematic world. Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, published the same year, ushered in a new era of superhero storytelling on the comics page, an era that's still going for a great many creators, and spawned countless imitators - some of which did the whole antiheroes in capes thing better than others. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons might not have invented the idea of deconstructing heroic figures when they published Watchmen in 1986, but they did set the gold standard for that kind of story in superhero media. ![]()
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