"One reason it might be nice for critics to take a look back at the original book [Watchmen] right now is that despite claims to the contrary, these new works [Before Watchmen] will for most audiences have some sort of impact on the original -- if only by providing narrative detail on story events from the original whose power derives in part from their ambiguity, a filling-in-the-blanks that will be hard to shake."



-Tom Spurgeon at the