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Watchmen: where to start reading
Adapts Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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After Season 1, in the books you are
at Watchmen (the complete graphic novel).
the show is a sequel set decades after the book; the graphic novel comes first.
Show and books diverge hereBeyond the published novels
The single season is an original continuation set long after the graphic novel's events, treating the book as canon rather than adapting it. Read the graphic novel first.
Start reading at the original graphic novelSpoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
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- 1Watchmen (the complete graphic novel)1987
The HBO series is a sequel to the graphic novel, not an adaptation of it. It treats the original twelve issues as canon and sets its own story decades later, so the book is where to begin reading, and the show never retells it.
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