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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• Watchmen Directors Cut comes to Blu-ray in the UK

  
  Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files — Authority: 618
  FOR THOSE who were frustrated over the absence of the Watchmen Directors Cut in the UK, you can find peace and happiness again on Monday (November 30). Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing the Watchmen (Two-Disc Directors Cut) (Cert 18, 178 mins) on Blu-ray here at last. The Directors Cut came out in the USA ...
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• Iran Releases Two Christian Women from Evin Prison

  
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• Hot Toys Watchmen The Comedian- Preview

  
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  Greetings heroes/citizen. Check out these cool final prototype photos of The Comedian from the movie Watchmen. It is estimated to be released on 1st quarter of 2010, but HT most likely will delay their products. Anyway, I’m not getting this one, I like the movie but not much that I’m going to bleed my wallet [...]
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• Sony’s Blu-ray digital copies tested on PS3, PSP

  
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• New York DVD Stash!

  
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• President Obama-Style Hope Shirt With A Rorschach Twist Available Until Midnight

  
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• Today only.

  
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• This is Fun: Rorschach-Obama T-Shirt

  
  The 8th Circuit — Authority: 139
  Like Watchmen ? Swing left? Then youre going to love this t-shirt. While yes, I know the whole Shepard Fairey "Hope" meme has been done to death, but this is still a pretty cool shirt. The shirt will be available only on Thursday, November 19th for only $9 bucks plus shipping. Read on for a word from the author and ...
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• Cool Stuff: Rorschach Obama Parody T-Shirt

  
  /Film — Authority: 787
  Today’s t-shirt on the tee-a-day website TeeFury is a Watchmen parody takes the Rorschach character and gives him the Shepard Fairey treatment, capping it off with the single word “WATCH”. The T-shirt will be available all day on Thursday, November 19th 2009 for only $9 plus shipping. But like all Teefury ...
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• Interview: Carla Gugino

  
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• The Comedian Figure

  
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  One of the best head sculpts we’ve ever seen, Hot Toys’ 1:6 scale, 12″ The Comedian does justice to our favorite Watchmen character with five weapons, a cigar, and full body harness. Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=7874 Hat Tip: ...
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