Apart from being a piece of apocalyptic fiction and an investigation of a parallel world, The Watchmen is also a murder story and a detective story. Right from the first issue you have this obsessive, paranoid, psychotic detective working through a doomed America trying to find somebody who鈥檚 killed the Comedian.
Dave Gibbons & Alan Moore on Watchmen (1986) in Amazing Heroes #97, June 1986.