You could have saved yourself some work and just typed that. We all knew that was the real reason.
Also, at least two of the WM characters are based on Batman. (Nite Owl I and II. Three or four if you count Rorschach (sp?) and/or Ozymyndias as partly based on Batman.)
But I understand what Rob means... Watchmen is a great comic but I didn't read it until I had read MAUS, DKR, Batman: Year One, some of Miller's Daredevil and some other 1980´s comics (Alan Grant's 'Detective' Batman and Mike Grell's Green Arrow). Also, I was spoiled on the ending of WM before I read it.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
