Watchmen Archives

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[...]

Well, at the end of Watchmen, he did say he was going to go off and make some human life of his own, didn't he? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */   In Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan, we see him make a start. Say, could[...]

I've been calling The Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta (and now Michael Walsh) with Jordie Bellaire, Marvel's Watchmen. With today's issue I'm hardly going to stop. If Marvel play it right, treat it right, package it right, The Vision #1-#12 should be a perennial seller, both a critical and commercial hit[...]

I remember at one point someone at DC Comics called up someone at Dynamite Entertainment, over their solicitation of a Watchmen toaster, that burned the pattern of Rorschach's face into each slice of bread, saying "Really?" It was pointed out that this was already a Warners product that Dynamite was simply distributing into the comic[...]

In Watchmen, Dr Manhattan is charged – falsely it later transpires – with giving cancer to his nearest and dearest. It's something that happens to Spider-Man in the alternate future set Spider-Man: Reign by Kaare Andrews. These are considered bad things In the parody Saturday Morning Watchmen, it's a joke that Dr Manhattan "can give you cancer"[...]

So there is a Justice League Tarot card set by Sara Richard in comic book stores today (and from Amazon after Christmas) Featuring a bunch of characters

We've known for a little while that Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural, Watchmen) had been cast to play Negan in the second half of the current The Walking Dead season, but with the mid-season finale AMC showed a prologue to the second half that will kick off in February and we get the first name drop[...]

From Jonathan Ross' documentary In Search Of Steve Ditko… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdZETnEacAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Alan Moore on Steve Ditko on Rorschach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdZETnEacA) In which Alan Moore recalls an interview where Steve Ditko is asked about Watchmen, doesn't recall the name until Rorschach is mentioned at which point he describes him as being just like Mr[...]

This is how Dave Gibbons did it in Watchmen. This is how Zack Snyder did it in the movie. And this is how Olivia Mears did it on Etsy. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox[...]