Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter

Within the Watchmen graphic novel, Tales Of The Black Freighter appears as a comic book read by a young man in New York City, while the city is being destroyed. This daring pirate saga chronicles a sailor's journey home from being marooned. During his journey, the young seaman is "forced by the urgency of his mission to shed one inhibition after another" and experience horrible events along the way. The turbulent events the sailor endures seem to mirror those in the Watchman's world. Hollis Mason's tell-all autobiography, Under The Hood, chronicles the events in Hollis Mason's life that led to him to become the masked avenger Nite Owl and discusses how the Minutemen were formed. It features the original Spectre, the Comedian, Moloch the Mystic, along with Hollis Mason, the original Night Owl. Based on the graphic novel Watchmen co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. (Gary Reber)