Gibbons put out a book called "Watching the Watchmen" that went through his side of the collaboration. He touches on his early career, his early collaborations with Moore, the conception and pre-production of Watchmen, the experience of actually drawing it and the aftermath. The most amazing part to me was that Chapter V, which had the palindrone panel layout, was written and drawn two pages at a time. He also points out that he deliberately tried to distance his art from the typical comic book styles, using a stiffer nib to draw the characters rather than a flexible nib or brush and technical pens for the backgrounds. I think that also has a lot to do with the criticism of the artwork because it really doesn't look at all like a superhero book. Theres also a neat featurette by John Higgins about the coloring.

It was on BBC last night and me and my girlfriend watched it together and I've thoroughly enjoyed watching it last night and my girlfriend was surprised how good it was and that's was the first time I've seen it since 2011. Last Night, it was my 4th time that I've seen this movie and this time I learned to appreciate it better. I seen it twice on the big screen and once in 2011 and again last night 4 years later. It was an excellent movie.

I like the movie a lot too and don't understand all the hate

Thanks Confessor and you couldn't said it better - it's not an easy film to translate to the big screen and I was very surprised how well they got it on the big screen with all the characters involved. The hate of what you don't understand Cooper is not an easy thing to get rid of and that's why Confessor said it was a fine film adaptation and I completely agree with him.

Long before it became a film, I thought it would work best as a mini series on something like HBO. Twelve hours might have been able to give it the room it needed. If you're giving a filmmaker two hours and change to do a Watchmen movie, then what we got was about as good as could be hoped.

I think I'm still missing a lot of what Grant Morrison was trying to get across with this story but agree it was very interesting.

I see it as an almost painfully heartfelt and personal message from Morrison to Moore, with Captain Atom in particular Morrison's version of "Allen", subjecting superhero comics to an analysis so pitiless it's destroyed by it (my reading of the scene with the dog). So "Captain Atom has left the universe" is Moore turning his back on superhero comics.

The future president is perhaps the wave of comics creators/administrators that followed Moore, took his deconstruction of superhero comics and exploited it in a crassly practical manner. As a child he inadvertently kills his own superhero-father as that generation has effectively done away with the innocent heroes of yesteryear and replaced them with something more cynical, the ultimate representative of which is the cigar-chewing assassin, sprung from the black hole in Allen's brain (left by his deconstruction of the genre?), the president's new "hero" who brutally interrogates and tortures Peacemaker, a character I'm tempted to associate with Morrison himself and his (failed?) attempt to bring some integrity and meaning back to modern superhero comics.