Watchmen changed comics. It is a phenomenal graphic novel with so much narrative and aesthetic depth that it takes multiple reads to absorb all the layers that the tandem of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons managed to cram into this book.

One of those layers is a comic-within-a-comic known as Tales of the Black Freighter, a macabre pirate story that intertwines with the main plotline to reflect a growing sense of dread in the real world of graphic novel. Moore’s use of this device is fascinating, but now Steven at Crinklink has put in the legwork and pieced together all the Tales of the Black Freighter panels to provide an uninterrupted collection of the comic-within a comic. He calls it Marooned (The Reconstruction), and it’s a unique and interesting read in it’s own right for fans of Moore and Gibbons’ magnum opus.