Picked up a copy of the graphic novel Watchmen from my local forbidden planet during the Christmas shopping. Why is it always so much easier to buy presents for yourself?

It’s easy to see why its is such a regarded piece of fiction, not your ordinary comic book heroes these - complex, flawed and all in a twisting plot as the world veers towards nuclear war. The fact that only one of them actually has god-like super-powers and doesn’t really care if the world ends just adds to it all…