Tuesday 11 November 2008

new Watchmen character posters

Nice enough, though I preferred the comic-inspired ones.

These were originally released scattered around the web as various exclusives (the one here was the first I came across, for example), which explains why some are extra-good quality, why the Dr Manhattan one is really low quality, and why Silk Spectre's has an MTV logo at the bottom (studies have shown it takes males longer to notice this logo than females.) Presumably all six sites were given equal-quality files, which makes it all the more annoying that not everyone bothered to include those -- especially the very poor quality Dr Manhattan one.

As usual, this rather silly 'exclusive' method means that any site not granted an exclusive can compile all six independently, thereby topping any of these oh-so-special treated sites. The irony of that always amuses me.

Nite Owl Rorschach Ozymandias
Silk Spectre The Comedian Dr Manhattan
Click to enlarge.

(If anyone cares, the sites that had them were, respectively, Access Hollywood, USA Today's Lifeline Live, Wired's underwire, MTV's Splash Page, LA Times' Hero Complex, and EW.com's clearly rubbish PopWatch.)

Additionally, one of the sites had another poster that I've not seen before, which is my personal favourite so far:

another Watchmen teaser

03.06.09 is too far away.

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