(W/A/CA) Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner. Darwyn Cooke tells the tragic tale of the Minutemen* assembled to fight against evil in a world spinning out of control. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin? Then* Cooke and Amanda Conner take an look at the Silk Spectre's early years with her overbearing* Super Hero mother* chronicling her journey down the winding path toward becoming her own kind of hero. This volume collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN 1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE 1-4.