Join us to discuss the groundbreaking adult graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore, which is available on Hoopla Digital. For adults.
In an alternate America, a murder mystery evolves into an ominous, planetwide conspiracy in a world where superheroes shifted the course of history as we know it.
It’s the 1980s — The United States has emerged victorious in the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon remains in office and the Cold War rages on. Superheroes have been outlawed, with some going into retirement, some becoming government agents and still others turning to vigilantism.
And an unknown assassin is stalking a group of heroes who’ve fallen from grace, plagued by all-too-human failings. After this scattered team — Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias — comes together to mourn a friend, they discover that the murder is part of a larger plot to upend the fragile geo-political balance and spread calamity across the world.
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