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Posted: 2019-10-21T02:04:05Z | Updated: 2019-10-22T17:16:06Z

Sunday night marked the start of HBOs Watchmen , meaning huhs? are coming.

The new series, created by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers ), is set three decades after the events of the superhero/alt-history 1986 comic book series from Alan Moore. Its very much a remix of the story as it mostly focuses on new characters in the same universe, such as cop colleagues Angela Abar (Regina King), aka Sister Night, and Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson), who battle the white supremacist group the Seventh Kavalry in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Despite the emphasis on new characters and Lindelofs recent interview with Rolling Stone in which he said he even expected people with knowledge of the comics to be confused there are a number of anomalies in the Watchmen universe that could be explained with a little comic book background.

Here are some answers to those pressing questions: