Shared Experiences - or - Who Watches the Watchmen?

Alan Moore's Watchmen is one of the best comic series ever written. There's really no way around it; if you read comics, you have to read Watchmen. Aside from the fact that the story is excellent and the art is well-done, Watchmen's greatest accomplishment is a complete reimagining of a world with superheroes, and how such a world would function.

The results should sound familiar. Everyone pays attention, because everyone is affected. Like it or not, we're tugged back and forth by people we've never met, have no control over, and who wear funny, socially embarassing outfits.

Right now, we're doing alright, 'cause the superheroes are keeping us safe and sound, beating up on low level crooks and battling evil for the good of the game. What happens when they face the big guys, the guys who want to teleport a killer alien into the middle of New York, I dunno. But we might as well all enjoy it.