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Major Spoilers Podcast #343: Major Spoilers Classified #002: The Case of the Watchmen Sequel

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In this episode: Dr. Peter Coogan joins the crew to discuss his theory that the sequel to Watchmen doesn't need to be written, because it already has... Clues to the sequel to Watchmen By Peter Coogan This reading of Watchmen was inspired by a comment by Sara J. Van Ness in Watchmen as Literature (McFarland, 2010). She pointed to the excerpt from Under the Hood in chapter 1 and the paperclipped note on its first page, “‘We present here excerpts from Hollis Mason’s autobiography, UNDER THE HOOD, leading up t the time when he became the masked adventurer, Nite Owl. Reprinted with permission of the author’ (27). This ‘we’ is the novels only reference to the narrator” (p. 61). This comment inspired me to track down the identity of the narrator and it led to a series of discoveries about the novel. Read through these clues and see if you can figure out why there is no need for a sequel to Watchmen. How did Moore and Gibbons build the sequel into the text? These clues assume that Watchmen has been