# Watchmen **URL:** **By** Matthew Feeney, Julian Sanchez, Natalie Dowzicky, Landry Ayres **Published:** January 8, 2020 --- Matthew Feeney \& Julian Sanchez join the show to talk about how HBO took on the incredible comic book, Watchmen, and to our surprise, they excellently executed the story for a 2019 audience. _Image Credit:_ [Den of Geek](https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/watchmen/283604/how-hbos-watchmen-was-brought-to-life) Alan Moore’s 1986 _Watchmen_ was a condemnation of all forms of authority, mocking the concept of a benevolent superhuman, and portraying masked vigilantes as emotionally unstable. And Damien Lindelof took this story for HBO and refreshed it for a 2019 audience where the origin story is the Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riots of 1921. How is HBO’s Watchmen not a typical superhero story? Why is the classic superhero archetype an orphan?