I’m in the process or re-reading the Watchmen. With the movie about to launch… (hopefully seeing as it is tied up in all sorts of legal conflict between Warners & Fox!)
Regardless…
Going back to this incredible graphic novel has been such a rewarding reading experience. I realized that the last time I read it, was nearly 20 years ago. God! How time just passes you by when you least expect it.
Watchmen totally and utterly blew me away when I first read its pages. It opened up a whole new world of comics for me and took me away from the standard fare ‘super hero’ books of Marvel and DC and introduced me to more mature titles such as ‘Hellblazer’, ‘Swamp Thing’, ‘Sandman’, ‘V For Vendetta’, ‘Preacher’ et al.
I distinctly remember reading through this baby with suchconcentration and overwhelming joy. It was one of the best comic book experiences I had ever had.
Re-reading it has just reminded me again why Time magazine has gone so far as to name it in its top 100 best novels of all time. Yeah, it is that good!
So, with all the recent press about this movie, and there’s only more to come… there is a really cool new featurette that has been posted on the Apple Quicktime site.
Check it out here and look for the awesome Minutemen footage which looks like it has come directly from the pages of the comic book! Awesome stuff abounds!
Meanwhile… check out the Japanese trailer below…
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