Grant Morrison comenta Pax Americana

While I think the original idea of updating the Watchmen aesthetic to a Greg Rucka super espionage thriller framework was a sound one and could have produced a great take on the Charlton material, by the time I realised I was doing The Multiversity all by myself, and that each issue would be done in a different style, I’d become more interested in tackling Watchmen’s legacy on a more formal level; the conceit of doing the Charlton characters as a political thriller with an eye on Watchmen’s elaborate narrative and formal gymnastics gave me an opportunity to do a formally flamboyant comic book that could say everything I wanted to say about America, post-Watchmen superheroes, and indeed the entire American masked man genre and its psychological roots in 48 pages.