War and Watchmen

War and Watchmen

War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states and/or non-state actors. It is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption, human suffering, and economic destruction. Still today this evil phenomena takes place. Yes, I say evil: caresty, death, economic crisis, demolition, anger, loneliness, suffering...all characteristics or adjectives for war. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention.

This theme of war is one of the major ones present in the comic book "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Without making references over their plans on the Cold War, the book explains the story of a group of superheroes. Everyday, one of this superheroes gets involved into a war against the world: crimes, fights, murders etc. Even though its uselessness in real life, this theme gives to "Watchmen" an intriguing and interesting story, full of emotions...but it still classifies it as a bad behavior which means its teachings are educate. 

A way through which the two authors describe war as a wrong thing is seen in the last chapters. The aim of Ozymandies, even though his results were not all positive, was to prevent the possible Cold War.

Sources: 

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War