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"Who Watches the Watchmen?"

Possibly the best comic/ graphic novel ever written. Here's a Wiki on Watchmen.

Seen here Rorschach graffiti on a wall Sokes Croft, Bristol as police rider passes by.

The recurring slogan "Who Watches the Watchmen?" is most often seen as graffiti throughout the story. It is never seen complete; it is always obscured by a foreground object or person, or unfinished by the graffiti artist, however it is always discernible. The slogan is a reaction by the public to a lack of law enforcement protection during a national police labour strike prior to the passage of the Keene Act. Police protection of society has vanished and the costumed crime fighters of the story engage in crowd control. Riots have broken out in New York City and Washington, D.C., and many ordinary citizens have taken to the streets to protest the intervention of costumed heroes in law enforcement.

After the last chapter of the graphic novel is finished, the slogan appears translated into Latin: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes."

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Alt image Watching over Bristol.

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