This paper aims to illustrate the challenges of translating figurative language by using examples from the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore and its Croatian translation by Darko Macan. Because Watchmen is a comic book, another aim of this paper is to show the added challenges comic books bring with themselves when it comes to producing a faithful translation. After a brief introduction, the paper describes the general intricacies of translating figurative language. It also lists several strategies that are most commonly used. After that, the paper details a short history of comic books, their structure and the challenges of translating them. Chapter 3 also takes a short look into comic book translations in Croatia. The following chapter talks about the book Watchmen. It chronicles the creation of the book and its subsequent success. Finally, Chapter 5 lists examples of figurative language used in either source or the target text and explains the intricacies of each example. The analysis is done on the basis of the six main characters of the book, since they are mostly fleshed out through the language they use. The final subsection of Chapter 5 lists examples of figurative language used by some of the other characters present in the book. The goal of this paper is to show the difficulties of translating figurative language, especially when it is strongly linked to the character using it and restricted by the format it is presented in.