watchmen

Watchmen is a 1987 graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons that has since become universally recognized as one of the best of the comic book medium. Magazines such as Time have gone so far as to rate Watchmen one of the 100 best novels of the past quarter century.

Watchmen has also received the Hollywood treatment with a blockbuster big-screen adaptation starring Billly Crudup released by Warner Bros. to movie theaters in 2009.

The story takes place in an alternate reality during the mid-eighties. Nixon is still president, and superheroes (who mostly don't have superpowers anyway) have been outlawed by the government. This however doesn't stop a group of heroes from donning the tights again when one of their own is assassinated. The heroes include a guy with an ink-blot mask named Rorschach, resident sexpot Silk Spectre II, and the one guy with actual superpowers, a gigantic blue guy called Dr. Manhattan who exiles himself to Mars.

On the blogosphere, you can check out reviews, read the annotated version of Watchmen, watch preview videos and trailers, or just find out Who Watches The Watchmen?.

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• Should a movement have watchmen?

  
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• Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Son Has Developed a Serious Pottymouth

  
  Evil Beet Gossip — Authority: 132
  Jeffrey Dean Morgan —the handsome actor who looks either like Javier Bardem or like Robert Downey, Jr. , depending on the angle—is a dad . I keep forgetting he’s a dad! The dashing Jeffrey Downey Bardem recently learned the hard way that, uh, it isn’t a good idea to curse around tots , least of all your ...
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• Bonus Episode: J.G. Jones Interview

  
  Super Podcasto Magnifico! — Authority: 107
  Play: J.G. Jones Interview El Blanco Gigante had a chance to ask artist extraordinaire J.G. Jones a few questions at a local comic book convention recently. He’s no Barbara Walters, but he did ask about those pesky Watchmen 2 rumors. Listen in! Let us know if you think J.G. Jones is hiding something over on our  ...
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• Comics A.M. | De Guzman leaves SLG, Powell joins Diamond

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 670
  Jennifer de Guzman Publishing | Jennifer de Guzman announced that, after 10 years, she has left her position as editor-in-chief of SLG Publishing: “My decade SLG was, I suspect, like no other decade anyone has spent working anywhere. I had great co-workers and got to work with fantastic creators, all of whom I ...
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• Poorly Rated: Watchmen The End is Nigh Part 2

  
  Video Gaming Reviews Edge — Authority: 131
  Poorly Rated is a series where I play some of the worst rated games on Steam, or other rating sites. On this episode, I play Watchmen The End is Nigh Part 2. If you have a game recommendation, leave it in the comments below! —wowcrendor links— My Facebook Page: www.facebook.com My Twitter: twitter.com My Website: ...
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• MAN OF STEEL - New Epic Action Photo Arrives

  
  GeekTyrant — Authority: 680
  A new photo reportedly taken on the set of Man of Steel has arrived online.  Facebook Superman Man of Steel  has posted an image that shows a semi truck that decided to take on what looks to be a tree or a telephone pole. Director  Zack Snyder is great at handling action sequences. The best parts of Sucker ...
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• Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Closer To Midnight

  
  LinkMachineGo — Authority: 109
  [watchmen] Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight … ‘The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of nuclear danger, has moved one minute closer to midnight because of “inadequate progress” on nuclear and climate issues. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced the move – to five minutes ...
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• MIKE GOLD: The Batman Family Feud

  
  ComicMix — Authority: 466
  I’m enjoying the back-and-forth between my fellow columnists Marc Alan Fishman  and Michael Davis  regarding DC’s New 52, but now it has come to the point where I must give Marc, ComicMix ’s own Snapper Carr, some love. (Hey, Snapper, just swallow it. We’ve already got Johnny DC writing here. No ...
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• A Rorschach Rorschach Test

  
  Popped Culture — Authority: 516
  I love the idea of Nite Owl taunting Rorschach over and over again about what his mask was displaying. ( Rorschach Test by Evgeny Yakovlev via Comics Alliance ) Previously on Popped Culture... A Blockhead Died In New York... Watchmen Last Supper The True Face Of The Watchmen
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• Were Rorschach’s Speech Patterns Based On Herbie, the Fat Fury?

  
  LinkMachineGo — Authority: 109
  [comics] Were Rorschach’s Speech Patterns Based On Herbie, the Fat Fury? … ‘When discussing Rorschach, [Alan Moore] shared that the tone of his diary was inspired by the letters Son Of Sam David Berkowitz sent to the news papers, and (confirming my own theory) that his speech patterns were based on Herbie the ...
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• Do You Want to Stop The Watchmen Prequel

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 739
  Well, you probably won’t actually be able to, but if you really are opposed to the Watchmen prequel, you can always take a stand and  sign the petition to get the movie stopped before it starts. While there’s always a good chance the movie won’t get completed, something tells me a petition with less than 300 ...
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• Abhay Khosla On Watchmen 2

  
  LinkMachineGo — Authority: 109
  [comics] Abhay Khosla tries to predict the Watchmen 2 Announcement … Allusion to Alan Moore’s prickly relationship with the company— Moore is “unavailable” for comment at time of press and/or declines to comment. Maybe, maybe he says something pithy like “All of those characters are already dead to ...
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• WATCHMEN Prequel Silk Spectre Art By Amanda Conner

  
  Obsessed With Film — Authority: 137
  Following on from their images of The Comedian and Nite Owl, Bleeding Cool posted a new image from the upcoming Watchmen prequels, this time featuring the Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner (The Pro, Power Girl). The authenticity of the piece is still in question but if it is real, it gives us a good indication of what ...
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• 5 Storylines We Want For WATCHMEN Comics Prequel

  
  Obsessed With Film — Authority: 137
  Watchmen is DC’s highest-selling comic collection. Ever. So, while DC are neither confirming nor denying the swirling rumours of the four miniseries being explored by different writer and artist teams under a single editor, it would not be a surprise that the powers-that-be are considering digger deeper into this ...
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• Amy E Genkins Gets In Touch Over Amanda Conner Watchmen 2 Artwork

  
  Bleeding Cool — Authority: 736
  I wasn’t sure whether or not the Amanda Conner and Paul Mounts Silk Spectre II piece we ran yesterday was from the Watchmen prequel mini-series rumoured to be published by DC Comics or not. I’m sure it is now, of course. Yours and my favourite DC legal representative, Amy E Genkins has been on the e-mail ...
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• Watchmen 2: la minaccia dei prequel

  
  Lega Nerd — Authority: 130
  Le prime notizie di questo genere iniziarono già nel 2010 quando la DC propose ad Alan Moore un fantomatico Watchmen 2 , poiché aveva l’intenzione di realizzarlo con autori diversi da Moore e Gibbons. Lui su Wired.com rispose così: “Mi hanno offerto la restituzione dei diritti su Watchmen se in cambio fossi ...
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• Watchmen 2 In The Works: Idiots Prepare To Make Electric Boogaloo Jokes

  
  Hecklerspray — Authority: 500
  Anyone who’s anyone who’s anyone knows the importance that Watchmen had on the history of sequential art (which is a cockended way of saying ‘comics’). It had boobies and swearing and violence, as well as a final twist that is consistently ranked as one of the greatest twists in fictional history; ranked ...
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