When I was far younger than I am today the first mention I ever heard of Watchmen was by Pop Will Eat Itself when they shouted “Alan Moore knows the score”. I had no idea what they meant by this. But a couple of chats with the older kids at school and I found out that the Alan Moore they were referring to was the Alan Moore who wrote parts of 2000AD and who had recently been doing a comic book - no one called them ‘graphic novels’ back then - called Watchmen.
A strange tale about anti-heroes suffering from multiple neurosis. Almost twenty years later and I’m sitting, waiting to find out more about the movie of Watchmen - I’m living in the hope that Watchmen the movie isn’t going to be a let down. I always felt that this was one of the few things that cinema should leave alone.
For the next while I’m going to blog with all I can find out about Watchmen - not just the movie (though that will be a focus of mine) but also the lore of Watchmen, the cult of Watchmen and everything else I can find that sticking on a website won’t lead to legal issues.
Reasonably soon we could all be watching the Watchmen - a slightly disturbing fact…
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!!!NO!!!
DC/AOL time Warner, Leave watchmen alone! Its perfect the way it is, besides, one of the creators of LOST said that watchmen was “one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever produced”. See it’s great just leave it! In an ideal world watchmen the comic/graphic novel would have been a benchmark for comics to aspire to, to break away from the hevily relied y-fronts over the cape cheesiness that saw so many re-makes of DC stalwarts Batman and Superman, but we don’t live in an ideal world and with hollywood drawing a blank with original creativity and a writers strike, comics are the new inspiration for film making imagination. I’m glad I read Watchmen before Hollywood hire Bryan Singer to Butcher it!!!!