Books like Watchmen
In an alternate 1985 where Nixon is still president and nuclear war looms, retired costumed vigilantes are drawn back together when one of them is murdered.
Explore books like this on the map12 books for readers of Watchmen
Batman: Three Jokers
Batman, Batgirl and Red Hood discover that the Joker has been three different men all along, and hunting them forces each of them to reopen the worst thing the Joker ever did to them.
Batman: The Killing Joke
The Joker escapes Arkham to prove that one bad day can drive anyone insane, and sets out to demonstrate it on Commissioner Gordon, while flashbacks offer a possible version of how the Joker began.
V for Vendetta
In a fascist post-nuclear Britain a man in a Guy Fawkes mask calling himself V blows up Parliament on the fifth of November and begins, methodically, to unmake the state that made him.
Worm
Taylor Hebert, a bullied teenager in the decaying city of Brockton Bay, has the power to control insects, and on her first night out in costume, meaning to be a hero, she falls in with a gang of young villains.
Batman: Year One
Bruce Wayne's first year in the cowl runs alongside Jim Gordon's first year as an honest cop in a rotten Gotham police department, in a spare, street-level retelling of how it began.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Ten years after hanging up the cape, a fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne returns to a Gotham overrun by gangs and television pundits, in the story that remade Batman as a grim, ageing vigilante.
Batman: The Long Halloween
Early in his career, Batman, Captain Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent hunt a killer called Holiday, who strikes Gotham's crime families on one holiday each month for a year.
Blacksad
An anthropomorphic cat detective investigates crime in a 1950s American-noir world.
Wicked
The Wicked Witch of the West as a green-skinned girl from Munchkinland who becomes a student radical for the rights of talking Animals, long before a farmhouse falls from Kansas.
The Dragon Waiting
In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.
Vicious
Victor and Eli, brilliant, arrogant college roommates, discover that a near-death experience can give a person extraordinary abilities, and ten years later Victor breaks out of prison determined to find his old friend, who is now hunting everyone else with powers.
The Man in the High Castle
In an alternate 1962 where the Axis won WWII, a Japanese official and an American antique dealer discover a novel that imagines the Allies victorious.