Watchmen Archives

 I have attended comic signings before but this was my first with actual rules. No more than four items would be signed. Only Moore/O'Neill League of Extraordinary Gentleman items would be signed. Tickets would be given out to the people as the queue built. It broke my heart that I would not be getting my copy of Watchmen, and[...]

This article contains minor spoilers, but nothing that I believe spoils the comic book reading experience. It would be easy to be fooled by the

It would seem horrible to compare Watchmen #1 with Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 But it's unavoidable I can't read this one issue without those twelve issues ringing in my ears So let's get it all out there. 1 From Watchmen To Mad Men Watchmen ran without advertising, each issue becoming an artifact of its own, every aspect of it[...]

But that was just a marketing bit of bumf. But the first issue of Before Watchmen: Minutemen goes out of its way to line itself up to the future Hollis Mason moving into the aprtment he will one day die in, including time spent with the statue that will one day become his murder weapon[...]

  Here are the first five pages of Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 by Darwyn Cooke, published tomorrow Let's have a look Note that the front cover does not work as the first panel to the story, as it did with the original However there is a feeling of gratitude, the key to the city, ticker tape…[...]

Before Watchmen, with Minutemen Though I'm told by DC sources that the one that comes out in two weeks, Silk Spectre, is really the one to look out for. Next week brings the DC tenth issues, a potential outing for Alan Scott in Earth 2 #2, the first issue of Creator Owned Heroes from Image, the[...]

The first book in the series, Minutemen #1, is out on 6 June, with a new issue to follow each week. He also talks about the motivation for the project; When you have a product like Watchmen that is as worldwide known as it is, and the fact there are millions of copies in print, we wouldn't[...]

  Dynamic Forces is to produce toasters featuring Warner Bros imagery, including the likes of Watchmen, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story, Where the Wild Things Are, The Goonies, Gremlins, Little Shop of Horrors, Watchmen, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mad Magazine, Friends and the like. The toasters will burn related imagery onto[...]

We ran a couple of Before Watchmen August issue covers last week But we didn't run this one for Ozymandias #2, with Jae Lee showing Ozymandias in a compromising position DC gave that one to Out Magazine Or course they did.In the original Watchmen series, the covers formed the very first panel of the comic,[...]

There now follows some randomish, vaguely connected thoughts about Before Watchmen. "Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes." – Joe Michael Straczynski.  Before Watchmen author. ""Kirby got a shitty contract too, so get over it" isn't a great tag[...]

An utterly fascinating account of some DC editorial history caps off the week:  "Shortly after the completion of the Watchmen series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, DC's main editors went on retreat The retreatees included Karen Berger, Mike Gold, Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Andy Helfer The brain trust returned with three "sequels" to[...]

Such as an earlier stab by DC Comics at something like Before Watchmen. Shortly after the completion of the Watchmen series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, DC's main editors went on retreat The retreatees included Karen Berger, Mike Gold, Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Andy Helfer The brain trust returned with three "sequels" to Watchmen. The[...]

BuzzFeed, after their trip around the DC Offices, were allowed to take some shots of the Before Watchmen comic books, including these Rorschach pages by Lee Bermejo with their seventies Manhattan exotica, the Silk Spectre page by Amanda Conner that follows it with the falling snow globe and nine panel grid right out of Watchmen,[...]

For everything that's been done for Watchmen from the books to the movie, money has gone his way The right amount that he deserves based on the contract So we have honored that part of the agreement It is something that can definitely be debated but to say that there is clearly one side that[...]

And for some, that is the very definition of a dream job. Oh and there are also looks at new Before Watchmen pages…   Some people insist that Dan DiDio must sit upon a throne rimmed with the skulls of his enemies Instead, his office looks more like my teenage bedroom But larger. It's part of a puff[...]

WatchWatch: A better shot of that Before Watchmen montage. CupWatch1: At Cup 'O Joe last night, Joe Quesada confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Bendis and Oeming are relaunching Powers as Powers FBI. CupWatch2: At Cup 'O Joe last night, Joe Quesada confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Matt Fraction and David Aja are launching a new[...]

Octavia De La Rosa is taking pictures at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool; Is it me… or is Rorschach smiling? Like in the Saturday Watchmen cartoon! "I'm nutty!" Keep on strutting, Strutting Rorschach! Octavia De La Rosa is taking pictures at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool; Is it me… or is Rorschach[...]

Retailers got a look at some Before Watchmen pages in black-and-white at the Diamond Chicago Summit As I'd previously heard, and now have confirmed, only Amanda Conner is using the 9 panel grid format that so defined the original Watchmen comic for Silk Spectre, and that everyone else is breaking format Though some return to[...]

From the Anime Boston Con last weekend. And I quote. So Friday afternoon outside the dealers room my friend Logan (Rorschach) proposed to her boyfriend

DC Comics is set to show off Watchmen this weekend in Chicago But it won't be the first time some folks will have seen the pages they are showing off A number of "press screenings" have been taking place in DC Comics offices for the likes of USA Today, Comic Book Resources, The New York[...]

Thanks to one hard working YouTuber, we now have the Alan Moore interview with BBC's HARDTalk online for everyone to see. The BBC generally don't take

Can anyone seriously argue the election process hasn't changed markedly because of the availability of youtube, instant video via smartphones and the like? Alan Moore – in, of course, WATCHMEN – made it crystal clear that the new engines created by Doctor Manhattan had destroyed the old motor vehicle industry That's one of the few 'wider[...]

As well as talking about the ins and out of their new Watchmen books, MTV Geek asked Len Wein and Joe Michael Straczynski about the possibility of more Watchmen to follow them. LW: Absolutely, like any great characters, there's always more to tell. JMS: I think what this project has shown, more than anything else, is that[...]

Alan Moore has been talking to Kurt Amacker about Before Watchmen, Watchmen, DC Comics and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Now, Alan has said a lot of this before, sometimes to me, but not all in the same place, in such a concise fashion and so directed Here are a few snippets, to encourage you to[...]

Here's a sketch of Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner, the character she'll be drawing in the upcoming Before Watchmen books. And here is Amanda actually drawing it, at Megacon, a few weeks back… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vs2QYNjbIo[/youtube]   Here's a sketch of Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner, the character she'll be drawing in the upcoming Before Watchmen books. And here is Amanda[...]

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Alan Moore wrote Watchmen with Dave Gibbons And that was that. Or was it? Because, as well as making suggestions about writing a Minutemen prequel or a Tales Of The Black Freighter spinoff with Joe Orlando, he also helped out with the Watchmen DC Heroes Role Playing games from Mayfair, in both Who Watches The Watchmen,[...]

So, yes, Watchmen 2. Darwyn Cooke – "The nature of the undertaking is going to polarize a lot of the readership…I think a lot of people will be excited about this and there are a lot of people that will be dead against it… I don't feel any more trepidation than Alan did by refitting the[...]

Then this landed on me. A  full confirmation of the Watchmen prequel project from DC Comics we have previously referred to as Watchmen 2, Before Watchmen, with writing details, courtesy of the Wausau Daily Herald which I think may have slightly broken an embargo. And it's not the four prequel comics we'd previously reported, but seven[...]

And they come in a variety of colours, and designs, including a Watchmen yellow-with-blood-splatter variety, that, presumably, will be on the new Watchmen prequel comic books. Bleeding Cool also mentioned how the touchscreen, interactive and animated aspect of the new logo would be a major aspect of it, and you can see that in action below,[...]