Introduction: A Rorschach test
The politics of power : who watches the watchmen?
The superman exists, and he's American : morality in the face of absolute power / Christopher Robichaud
Can we steer this rudderless world? Kant, Rorschach, retributivism, and honor / Jacob M. Held
Super-vigilantes and the Keene Act / Tony Spanakos
Superheroes and supermen : finding Nietzsche's übermensch in Watchmen / J. Keeping
The Veidt plan : Watchmen and ethics
Means, ends, and the critique of pure superheroes / J. Robert Loftis
The virtues of nite owl's potbelly / Mark D. White
Rorschach : when telling the truth is wrong / Alex Nuttall
The metaphysics of Dr. Manhattan
Dr. Manhattan, I presume? / James DiGiovanna
A timely encounter : Dr. Manhattan and Henri Bergson / Christopher M. Drohan
Free will and foreknowledge : does Jon really know what Laurie will do next, and can she do otherwise? / Arthur Ward
I'm just a puppet who can see the strings : Dr. Manhattan as a stoic sage / Andrew Terjesen
This is not your father's comic book
"Why don't you go read a book or something?" Watchmen as literature / Aaron Meskin
Watchwomen / Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson
Hooded justice and Captain Metropolis : the ambiguously gay duo / Robert Arp
What's so goddamned funny? the comedian and Rorschach on life's way / Taneli Kukkonen.