S01E05: Watchmen — The Last Superheroes

Yan ropes Nat into a comic that changed superhero storytelling forever: "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Yan discusses the ways in which the book has been both interpreted and misinterpreted, and Nat is utterly transfixed by a glowing blue man in the nude.

00:00 - Preamble

03:07 - Unhinged Yant: The Last Superheroes

27:22 - Nat Reads Watchmen

31:00 - Discussion, Issue #2

41:06 - Discussion, Issue #4

55:05 - Yan’s Final Questions

In this episode, Nat reads two issues of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — Issue #2: Absent Friends, and Issue #4: Watchmaker.

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Comic Sans is an Andas Productions podcast hosted by Myle Yan Tay and Nathaniel Mah, produced by Roshan Singh Sambhi, and co-produced by Scott Lee Chua. Cover art by Isabel Fang. Marketing by Shevon Leck. Transcribed by Josephine Kim.

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