"I suppose I was just thinking,
'That'd be a good way to start
a comic book: have a famous
super-hero found dead.'
As the mystery unraveled,
we would be led deeper and deeper
into the real heart of
this super-hero's world,
and show a reality that was
very different to the general
public image of the super-hero."
-Alan Moore on the basis for Watchmen-
Watchmen became about
"power and about the idea
of the superman manifest within society.
The title of the series refers to the phrase
"Who watches the watchmen?"
" Moore said he did not know
where the phrase originated...
-interview with Amazing Heroes 1986-
