In a previous post, Seeing More in the Watchmen, I touched on some of the spiritual references in the book, and tied them together under theme of “who watches the watchmen”. That’s kind of the “theme question” for the story, in that it come up over and over. The question itself goes back to Plato, and it was originally argued that society’s watchmen must police themselves. The fallacy of that argument is illustrated nicely by the Watchmen novel.

After looking at the question, and proposing that an answer is found in the story itself, the next step was to look at what this implies about the nature of the One who watches the Watchmen. This is where things get interesting.

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I read the graphic novel “Watchmen”, and was struck from the first page by the amount of spiritual content. Not just obvious things, like The Comedian’s eulogy, the verses at the end of some chapters, or even Jon walking on water, but some of the more subtle things.

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