This also contributes to why I don’t ‘get’ it - the first issue came out the month before I was born. I never grew up with the genre Watchmen revitalized.
In Marvel. In DC, very few are in New York, though the two most famous of the fictional cities they use are considered to be analogues to New York - Metropolis and Gotham.
But heroes do tend to bunch up in the Not New Yorks, even in DC - Gotham’s overflowing with costumed vigilantes (At various times: Batman, Robin, Spoiler, Batwoman, Huntress, Azrael, Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Batgirl, the Outsiders, Orpheus, the Reaper, Nightwing (usually based out of nearby Bludhaven, but spends a lot of time in Gotham), Black Canary (both), Oracle, Savant… That’s just who I can think of, offhand.), and Metropolis has a pretty good crop, too, sometimes.
Ah, yes. Good one. Hrrm.
No middle ground even if it hurts the story?
Mine too.
“No. Not even in face of armageddon. Never compromise.”
What? 
That was exactly the point, and it’s another one of Moore’s deconstructions of superhero comics: in a world with actual superheroes running around, what sort of comics would we be reading? In Moore’s world, EC-style horror comics were never pushed out of the market by superhero books, because superheroes aren’t comic book characters. They’re real people. If they exist at all in comics, they’re a subset of “true crime” comics.
Mine:
“You won’t have enough time to saw through that chain”
:eek: