Book out Your Past “Watchmen”

 Reading is an activity that is not so usual and many people do not like it, but it is necessary for our mental development. One year ago, I read this combination of a comic book and novel called Watchmen. Watchmen is a 1986 fictional, political and uncommon graphic novel. It takes place in an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed the history. The president Richard Nixon had been reelected for president for fourth term because during his presidency the Vietnam War was won by the U.S. with the help of masked vigilantes. In the 1940s, a group of people dressed up as superheroes in order to solve those cases or crimes where the police wouldn’t interfere. When the U.S. realizes how dangerous is to have masked vigilantes, the U.S. government makes a law to prohibit masked vigilantes. However, President Richard Nixon hires two masked vigilantes in a desperate try to win the Vietnam War. He hires Dr. Manhattan and the Comedian. Dr. Manhattan is the only super powered hero with ability to teleport anything, the ability to change physical laws, time travel, perception of time and space and the ability to manipulate matter. The Comedian is a psychopath mercenary with above average human strength, expert in martial arts and weaponry. Dr. Manhattan working with the U.S., it might be invincible. The US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president and the cold war is in full effect.  It begins with a murder-mystery before unfolding into a planet-altering conspiracy. When a retired hero is killed, his former teammates must investigate. The conspiracy they uncover will entwine their secret traumas and twisted psychologies, ultimately asking where the fine line is drawn between heroes and villains.