The Incomparable Podcast, number 83, March 2012.

Welcome back to The Incomparable Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snow, and tonight we're going to be talking about one of my very favorite books, I guess you could say, of all time. It is the now legendary DC Comics, Alan Moore and Dave

Givens production of Watchmen, first published in 1986 by DC Comics. It does not use any of the

traditional DC superheroes. Instead, it's sort of a skewed version of originally some comic book heroes from a different comic book company that DC acquired in an interesting kind of intellectual property transaction, which is ironic given what is happening with the Watchmen today, which is that DC is using their intellectual property to make prequels to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's seminal book, Watchmen. We will talk about that later on, but we're going to focus most of the podcast today on Watchmen itself, the original work from 1986, joining me to discuss Watchmen, famous, most, the most applauded

comic book, I think, of all time probably, are Lisa Schmeiser. Hi, Lisa. Hi, how are you? Doing

great. Thanks for being here. Steve Lutz is also here. Hi, Steve. Howdy, Jason? Good to talk to you.

Nice talking to you, too. Thanks for being here. And we have Ben Boychuk. Hi, Ben.

Herm.

Please do this entire podcast in a monotone.

That would be something.

And also joining us our own Night Owl. I don't really know where I'm going

with there. Tony Sindler. Hi, Tony. Hi. All right. So watchmen. My wife likes to make fun of me

for many things, but about watchmen, about my watchmen obsession. I have, at last count, I think I

have four copies of watchmen in different forms.

I've got the original issues, the trade paperback, the original trade paperback, a book club edition hardcover of the original

trade paperback, a book cover, and then the

Absolute Edition, which came out

a few years ago. I did,

I was at the height of my

comic book collecting period

in 1986 when Watchman came out,

and in fact I saw a promo for it

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