WHEN there are no police, and justice feels alien, the Watchmen appear. In the comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, a group of super powerful people disguise themselves as vigilantes: saviors of the city from wickedness, the Republic from enemies, and even the world from Armageddon.

One of them called Rorschach opens the story writing in his diary on October 12 1985: “The city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.” To Rorschach