Debe ser el verano, que me voy dejando en el tintero unas cuantas cosas, como la contribución que hizo Neil Gaiman a Watchmen. Bueno, contribución, lo que se dice contribución… El propio Neil cuenta en su blog el por qué de los agradecimientos especiales a él en una edición recopilatoria de la obra. Iba a traducirlo, pero la gran cantidad de citas biblicas han hecho que mejor no me arriesgue a meter la pata tan profundamente como seguro que lo habría hecho. Por lo tanto, aquí tenéis la explicación que da Gaiman sobre esos agradecimientos:

I remember Alan ringing me up when he was writing Watchmen #3, and said, «Neil, you're an educated bloke. Where does the quote `Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?' come from? I think someone said it when they were dying, but I don't know when.» I went out, and found it for him, rang him back, and said, «No. It's Genesis. God threatening to nuke Sodom and Gomorrah.» He said, «Thanks», then went off. He rang me back a few months later and said, «Neil, I haven't any quotes for the titles of #7 and #8. This is what happens in them, go find me a quote.» So I went off and got him «Brother to dragons, and companion to owls...» from Job for #7, and the poem for #8, Eleanor Farjeon's «Hallowe'en». «On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come.»Also, while I was researching the Old Testament stuff, I was working my way through a huge Biblical concordance, getting various details. It fell open to a page on obscure history, and the name Rameses jumped out at me. I discovered this quote that said, roughly, «I've killed all these places, and left the widows weeping there. Everything is at peace, and everything is great in the world.» So I rang up Alan, and said, «What do you think of this?» He said «Great! I'll stick it in #12» So you've got Ozymandias quoting Rameses in Watchmen. (ED: #12, Pg. 20)

Y añade que recuerda que también le prestó el libro sobre pájaros de donde extrajo las citas sobre buhos que hace Daniel Dreiberg en el texto suplementario que aparece en Watchmen nº 7.