The Times They Are A-Changin': The Passage of Time as an Agent of Change in Zack Snyder's Film Adaptation of Watchmen

Since its original publication in the late 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‟ Watchmen has been hailed as a masterpiece – “the Ulysses of graphic novels.” Serialised monthly in comic-book form throughout 1986 and 1987 before its dozen episodes were collected into a single volume, Watchmen, like most of the work in the comic-book medium, is fundamentally a superhero story, albeit one with a postmodern streak that upends and inverts the entire concept of the superhero.