The smiley face was designed to both geometrically ... from the Charlton Comics character that inspired The Comedian, "Watchmen" is constructed as a murder mystery. Yet the plot is merely a ...

Watchmen remains one of DC Comics’s most iconic intellectual properties ... social commentary are but the backdrop. That classic smiley face with a droplet of blood sliding down initially ...

But what makes "Watchmen" the greatest comic book ever written isn't ... Some are obvious, like the bloodstained smiley face, which bookends the story and has become an iconic symbol that ...