If you've never read the comics and don't plan to soon, but you still want to keep up with HBO's Watchmen, keep reading. Richard Nixon's head on Mount Rushmore? Vietnam is a state? The Watchmen ...

But what makes "Watchmen" the greatest comic book ever written isn't ... wrote them into an alternate history where America won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal never happened.

Watchmen is much more of a sequel to the comic than it first seems ... fell in love, ended the Vietnam War – but adds that he "mostly stopped giving a shit about humanity." ...