Watchmen Archives

To either the delights or fears of comic books fans around the world, Damon Lindelof's adaption of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 limited comic series Watchmen just took a major step towards full series status this afternoon when HBO confirmed that it has greenlit a pilot order and additional scripts. Though pilot and script orders don't necessarily[...]

Damon Lindelof just posted this on Instagram: Day One. A post shared by Damon (@damonlindelof) on Sep 19, 2017 at 10:49am PDT Which is a certain reference to this… Back in June, we learnt that Damon Lindelhof was in talks with HBO to make a TV adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen, but it is not intended to[...]

We had a chat about how we wanted to play Bran this season, and they suggested Doctor Manhattan from the Watchmen comic Bran was slightly based on that, existing in all these different times at once, knowing all these various things, being this emotionless rock connecting these different timelines and the history of the universe[...]

So, I thought I understood pretty much all of Watchmen I have read the Annotations I have watched the Kieron Gillen presentation, nodding along I thought I had squeezed all the nourishment out of that stone And I was utterly wrong. The first panel of the day that I went to at Nine Worlds London Geekfest[...]

In a statement that might not go over well with fans of Alan Moore's seminal comic book series, HBO President Casey Bloys told IGN that the cable giant's adaptation of Watchmen will not be a "literal translation" of the work Interviewed during the Television Critics Association's (TCA's) ongoing press tour, Bloys revealed that Damon Lindelof[...]

DC Comics SVP John Cunningham told retailers at San Diego Comic-Con that Doomsday Clock #1 is the culmination of everything Geoff Johns has ever done for DC Comics, and that it brings together every bit of history and takes it into tomorrow. He says that it will be the biggest selling comic of the year, though I'm not[...]

Oz, and the great big monsters, in concordance with the much-lauded Watchmen/DC Universe crossover, that would indicate that this is Ozymandias from Watchmen, with yet another plan And one that involved creating and defeating Supermen…and training them to be who they are at some point. The character has remained most enigmatic as he has involved himself[...]

According to Variety, Lindelof is in talks with HBO to develop an adaptation of Watchmen This isn't the first time that HBO has tried to make a Watchmen show, as Doctor Manhattan's penis and HBO's propensity for gratuitous nudity seem like a match made in heaven The most recent report puts Zack Snyder talking to HBO[...]

He has been the director of 300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the upcoming Justice League film He has been the main architect of the DCEU since it was handed to him from Christopher Nolan He is also an executive producer and has story by credit on[...]

Do you want to know how comics are made? How about learning it all from the artist behind the iconic Watchmen series? Dave Gibbons, Britain's first Comics Laureate, has put together a new book, with writer and pop culture expert Tim Pilcher, called How Comics Work The book covers scriptwriting, page layouts, lettering, cover designs, and more,[...]

In 1987, Who's Who, the DC Comics guide to their characters, included characters from Watchmen. They used artwork from Dave Gibbons for the entries of Watchmen and Minute Men. However, it came with the disclaimer: "The Minutemen and the Watchmen series are not connected to the DC Universe Continuity." Of course, that was before Geoff Johns got hold[...]

A limited series focusing on Superman vs the Watchmen's Dr Manhattan By the creative team of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank Sounds like a sure-fire sales winner to me The only downside is thatI have to wait till November to sell this? What other possible match-ups would I, as a fan boy and retailer like to[...]

CBR published a very interesting theory on the notion that the real big bad of Doomsday Clock, the new 4-issue event from Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson coming November that promises to be the resolution of the DC/Watchmen/Rebirth mystery, may in fact be Superboy-Prime. It's a great article, with a ton of fantastic points[...]

Here's the DC Press Release; In the most anticipated story of the year, New York Times bestselling writer Geoff Johns confirms Watchmen will make an epic return to the DC Universe this November As "The Button" crossover comes to a close in FLASH #22 this Wednesday, the four page epilogue affirms the mystery will continue with[...]

Every so often, comic book publishers send out previews of upcoming comics without any of the lettering finished. The result, while pretty to look at,

The third part of The Button, the story-line that has been promised to provide the next major steps in the ongoing mystery of Rebirth, Batman #22 performs

That's where Development Hell comes in and I got a chance to talk with Adam Marcus and Curtis Fortier about their upcoming performance of Watchmen from a script written by Sam Hamm in 1989 Marcus is a horror movie icon having directed Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Let It Snow and was co-writer[...]

Announced today by the capable PR team at Warner Bros (because there's nothing else going on this weekend that will dominate the news cycle), Watchmen is getting another adaptation This time, it's an R-rated animated film, which comes just a few days after Warner Bros refused to rule out making more R-Rated DC animated films[...]

You may have found a few Action Comics #976 spoilers on Bleeding Cool earlier in the week. Tut tut. But today a few DC Comics titles are setting out their

Klinger has been putting together The Annotated Watchmen for DC Comics He writes, This came about because, when we were wrapping Annotated Sandman, I happened to say that my other dream project would be to take a similar approach to Watchmen, one of the great works of art of the 20th century[...]

In a four issue storyline called "The Button" that will apparently run through Batman #21 and #22 and The Flash #21 and #22, Flash and Batman will team up to investigate the mystery of the bloodstained button from Watchmen found in The Batcave The press release promotes the crossover as the next stage in the[...]

And since then, Flash, Titans, Action Comics, Superman, Detective Comics and Batman have continued to tease the involvement of Watchmen in the Rebirthed DC Universe, with Dr Manhattan blamed for stealing time, for the creation of the New 52 DC Universe, while Ozymandias is blamed for stealing Doomsday and Red Robin while messing with the[...]

There was a tie in game for the Watchmen movie called Watchmen: The End is Nigh It wasn't a well recieved title, and the download only game has fallen into obscurity since That wasn't always the case though. This new video from Unseen64, covers how that game came to be by telling the story of a[...]

With Thanksgiving here and gone, it's time to start thinking about Christmas... unless you work in retail then you started thinking about Christmas after

The sequel, Injustice 2, is set to come out next year, and NetherRealm Studios' Ed Boon is looking for ways to improve on the original. One idea… one potentially very, very bad idea… You wanna see Watchmen characters in Injustice 2 ? — Ed Boon (@noobde) November 22, 2016 Clearly, the approximately 14,841.44 people who voted "Yes" must not[...]

In all fairness, though, those were really a hybrid of motion comics and live action, but as far as the underlying technology, things haven't really advanced all that much in 45 years. 2008 brought us the Watchmen motion comic, narrated by Tom Stechschulte This is notable both for being better than Zack Snyder's movie adaptation, and[...]

It's not just DC Rebirth that is doing Watchmen. Or even, now I think about it, recent issues of The Wicked + The Divine. Of which Kieron Gillen said "For a structurally-Watchmen-y issue, the nod is there… and I did play with making it much more explicit I tried to make a line akin to "Baphomet said I[...]

Moscow Comic Con. It was a show that John Higgins, comic book writer/artist and colourist of Watchmen, attended And was asked by Bleeding Cool's Senior Russian Correspondent Kirill Sukhov about the return of a certain comic book to DC Continuity Higgins said, "I've heard rumors that it was going to happen But I can't believe that they[...]

The very worst. This is Marvel's Watchmen Just, you know, no one tell Zack Snyder.   The Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Walta is a complex story set within a very structured and small framework One house, with few rooms, very little happens away from its premises An Avengers mansion here, a school classroom there, it keeps[...]

It might as well be DC Universe Rebirth #2. It ties into the end of Titans Hunt #8 as well… We got more details of what had happened to the citizens and superheroes of the DC Universe.  While in the Batcave, Batman has a smiley face to analyse. I can't deny that this kind of thing feels more like[...]