Watchmen is filled with politics and cuss words that I’m still having to count. From the beginning, it’s filled with mystery and you get the sense of it being really dark and real.
One thing that I noticed is that whenever a character would speak it would often go into a voice over and the next panel would be a different person but doing the exact same thing that the voice over is saying. When the young boy was reading the comic, you could see the description of the comics cross over to the other panels to describe another story. If that makes sense.
The other thing that I also saw was that there is a lot of zooming in on a certain object and then it expands to reveal the whole picture. An example of this is in the very beginning. The panel focuses on the yellow smiley face that belongs to the Comedian and then the next panel shows the exact thing but zoomed out and then in the fourth panel it shows the detectives looking down from the skyscraper. This artistic method is seen various time in the comic and to me I got it as if the writer was trying to make us think that something bigger is going on in the story that we don’t really see or know.
The other obvious thing in the comic is the sexual symbolism in it. It usually appears when Rorschach is walking around the streets. There’s prostitutes, naked women and signs that read sex. This comic is obviously after the comic code or either the comic code authority negotiated with the artist and the writer.
In all, I can understand why Watchmen is very popular and why it continues to be reprinted even in today’s world.