Articles: Watchmen

Recent days have offered us the teaser poster, an extended trailer and Zack Snyder's thoughts on adapting, but today Watchmen earns its very own Articles post. Here's why:

Hopefully, the Last Word on Alan Moore and Watchmen by Arya Ponto
(from JustPressPlay)
Seems to clear things up to me, but I don't expect fanboy's uninformed reactions to change any time soon.

Jonathan Ross on Watchmen by Jonathan Ross
(from Times Online)
"Wossy on Watchmen" would've been a far better title. Still, it's a very good piece, more intelligent than most readers would expect of Wossy (especially after his appearance in the news today). "It is almost impossible to overstate the impact that its publication had on comics and their place in pop culture history," he states early on. Too true, Mr Woss, too true.

The rise and rise of Watchmen by Michael Moran
(from Times Online)
"The graph [below] was given to me by the very kind people at Amazon UK and represents their sales of the Watchmen trade paperback over the last year. The surge starts in early July, around the time that the gloriously exciting trailer for Zack Snyder’s big screen adaptation of the 23-year-old comic book was released." There's more to the article than just this graph, incidentally.

If that's the UK, imagine what the US one must be like! (Click to enlarge.)

Spike Scream 2008 Watchmen Clip
(from Watchmen Official Movie Blog)
Yep, it's the same extended teaser as the other day... only now it's in HD. For that, it's a must see -- or a must re-see.

Watchmen Poster Comparisons
(from Plasmic Studio)
At Comic-Con, they released a series of very cool Watchmen character posters. I only realised recently -- when my copy of Dave Gibbons' wonderful book Watching the Watchmen turned up, in fact -- that these were recreations of posters done to promote the original comic. That just makes them even cooler, if you ask me. This feature allows you to roll over and do a direct comparison. Sadly it only includes the six main characters (there's at least one more poster, maybe two or three), but it's nifty nonetheless.

Also, thanks to the official movie blog, I've discovered an extraordinarily hi-res version of that teaser poster. Mmm. Check it out here (it's a 2.6Mb jpeg!)