8 Things You May Have Missed About DC's Watchmen

1. It's The Only Comic Book In Time's Finest Novels Of All Time

Granted it's printed on every copy of the graphic novel, but still, you probably didn't know that it was the only comic book to feature on the list.

It speaks largely to the salience of the series that Moore and Gibbons were able to leave such a legacy behind. To this day, comic books are still getting a bum rap, despite the fact they're as artistic and engaging as any novel is. Granted, there are plenty of issues to be had with the medium, but to decry visual storytelling as being fundamentally puerile or egregious isn't just intellectually dishonest, but plain wrong in itself. Indeed, as Watchmen displayed - and indeed continues to display - the medium as a whole has the potential to defy expectation, and tell stories worth telling.

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' novel continues to form the benchmark that all other books strive to reach, and, while none have surpassed it in terms of critical or commercial clout, the medium continues to produce content that could beat most of the stuff on our bookshelves by a country mile. There's obviously a reason why Watchmen deserved a spot on the greatest novels of the century, so who's to say that another comic book is out of contention to take one in the future?

Ultimately, Watchmen managed to reinvent what a comic book could achieve, and for that reason alone, it's more than deserving of its place on Time's roster.

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