Watchmen

Here's a very decent review essay in the Sunday NYT Book Review on Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which is basically the Citizen Kane of graphic novels. (What's being reviewed is a new release with extra stuff.) It's a good read. And this gives me an excuse to (a) harangue all those of you who haven't yet read Watchmen to do so, and (b) engage in the usual shameless self-promotion by posting a link to the essay I wrote on it for Superheroes and Philosophy, ed. by Tom Morris and Matt Morris (Open Court, 2005) (Somewhat sloppy scan-to-PDF -- why not go buy the book?)