The deluge of Watchmen world-building material continues, with a new video from viral site The New Frontiersman online, teaching us all about the Keene Act, part of the film's universe. Watch it here.
About 20 years before the start of Watchmen itself, the Keene Act outlawed masked vigilantism and forced the members of the group to hang up their masks and retire, except for Comedian, who kept working for the government; Manhattan, who was always government-sponsored and Rorschach, who kept working outside the law. This gives you a little bit more background on those events, and has that quasi-fascist feeling that so fits the Watchmen universe.
The film's out on March 6; check the New Frontiersman for more.