Who watches the Watchmen? I just saw the 2009 film adaptation of Alan Moore's critically acclaimed graphic novel, Watchmen. The graphic novel is the only comic book to make Times magazine's top 100 books of all time. The film does not disappoint.

Free Exchange, at my leisure, will spend the next month profiling each of the Watchmen. Over the course of a week or two, I intend to dedicate each post to examining one aspect of each Watchmen. The first to be profiled will be Rorschach, the alter-ego of Walter Kovac. As a preview, your correspondent intends to examine Kovac's transformation into Rorschach through the analytical lens afforded by Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Nite Owl II is the next logical profile as Marlowe, the counterpart to Rorschach's Kurtz.

Look forward to that. As a disclaimer, Nietzschean analysis may be far more repetitive than Conradian analysis simply because I haven't had the honor of reading all of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the work Nietzshe was most proud of.

Who watches the Watchmen? Free Exchange will.