WATCHMAKER

THEY SAY, “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.” For television showrunner/writer Damon Lindelof, there are certain topics he knows very well, and tackles often in his series such as Lost and The Leftovers: mysterious and supernatural phenomena, deeply conflicted characters, parental issues, faith and grief.

But there’s another topic he also knows intimately, yet he’s never tackled it until now: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel Watchmen.

“I’ve been in love with from the moment that I first met it. And that love has never wavered,” Lindelof tells on the phone from his office in Los Angeles. The 12-issue series from the mid-eighties was the first real deconstruction of superheroes in the comics medium, positing what impact