Re-assembling the Components in the Correct Sequence.pptx

Slideshow to teach Watchmen at an undergraduate level

1. Re-assembling the Components in the Correct Sequence: Why You Shouldn’t Read the Watchmen First Walter Hudsick From Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen. Edited by Richard Bensam . Published by Sequart Research and Literary Organization, Illionois . 2011.

2. 4 things you must know- Superhero characters in Charlton Comics –connection between reader and character Superduperman (MAD Magazine,1953), “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” (Larry Niven, All the Myriad Ways, 1971) and Super-folks by Robert Mayer- Plots which inspired the development of Watchmen Golden Age, Silver Age and Bronze Age of Comics- Superhero history Poetics of Comics