Watchmen Archives

But we've been informed quite conclusively from a reliable source at DC Comics that Andy Kubert is drawing one of the four Watchmen prequel miniseries we've heard so much about Taking one of the principle characters from the series and telling a pre-Watchmen tale. But I understand he may not be the only[...]

Sometimes all you do is have to mention its name, and lots of bits spill out. Two days ago, Bleeding Cool mentioned that Watchmen prequels at DC were back on the agenda, after the success of the New 52 That meetings were happening this week That it had the code name "Panic Room" That names mentioned[...]

A couple of years ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics was planning to return to Watchmen to tell new stories Dave Gibbons would be involved as well as many of DC's brightest stars. The very concept was pooh-poohed and Bleeding Cool was accused to making the whole thing up, by some Until Alan[...]

"We will not promote titles in our stores showrooms if publishers choose to pursue these exclusive arrangements that create an uneven playing field in the marketplace." The graphic novels involved include a hit-list of some of DC's most popular books, including Watchmen, Sandman, and V for Vendetta  Books-A-Million has over 200 stores in 23 states in[...]

"To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms and not have the e-book available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere" One intrepid Bleeding Cool reporter was on hand at his local Barnes & Noble just as the books were[...]

An email sent to stores yesterday instructs them to remove all of the 100 graphic novels listed from the shelves, including Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Sandman,  Fables, Blackest Night, All Star Superman, Y The Last Man, V For Vendetta, all strong sellers for the company You will still be able to order the books[...]

On the left, some dastardly creature from the new and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventure. And on the right, Nite Owl from some film based on a comic

 And speaking of Watchmen, as Rich reminded us earlier, the end of the world has sometimes been pretty good for comics too. Most-Read Comic Stories Today End Of The World Not Happening, Sadly In Australia, New Zealand and Fiji it is well past the Saturday 6pm deadline There are no major earthquakes, no sign of the impending Rapture,[...]

One is a comic book turned into a film against the writer's wishes. The other is a comic book about to be turned into a film with the writer's eager participation. Anyway, here's a scene from Watchmen #6 from 1985 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from DC Comics, and from Incognito: Bad Influences #5 from 2011[...]

You're going to be running into this link a lot today. May as well watch it now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hETuP33r8

Thermochromatic paint apparently. And no it's not quite a series of dark blobs moving around like mercury through a thin membrane in perfect symmetry. But

DMP has formed partnerships with six manga publishers in Japan—among them, Shinsokan, Taiyoh Toscho and Oakla Publishing—with libraries of up to 5,000 properties and some with more, even double, that number. Phenomenology of 'Watchmen' on Vimeo Understanding conscious experience in the graphic novel 'Watchmen' via the themes of simultaneity and totality. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17147357[/vimeo] Off the Couch, Into[...]

That's Mark Millar's big comics news for today, and we had a good guess at it at the weekend too. As to why it is big news, well it is so easy to say "From the co-creator of Watchmen and the co-creator of Wanted/Kick Ass" and, purely in terms of money, that's a massive impact[...]

From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640 21 bidders and no reserve This is the highest a Watchmen page has sold for to date. And you know what? I think it's a good investment. It arguably formalised a new language to comics, and showed people what could be done with[...]

I have touched this page. Up for sale, right now is Watchmen Page One, Issue One, with Rorschach's monologue and the move from smily face button up, up, to the window from where the Comedian fell And a Rorschach appearance with his End Of The World sign This is the big one folks. Currently listed at $6000[...]

A fourth print run of Chew #1 and a third print of Chew #2 may be in order. There's the ultimate Blackest Night promotion in Chicago and the following thriller of a promotional poster from Comics Nexus. More fun with Erik Larsen and John Byrne. Warren Ellis has seen the full lettered final issue of Planetary… The local press[...]

Who Waits For The Watchmen? A Five Disc Set coming in December How do we know? A $10 voucher inside the Watchmen Three Disc Set just being released Damn, that's sneaky. Featuring the Black Freighter animation threaded into the movie, the Under The Hood documentary, a new commentary by Snyder and Gibbons and the Watchmen[...]

Happy Rebellious Stepchild Nation Day to you all… So what's happening in and around comics then? Well, some celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, some with all-night parties, some with illegally downloading Watchmen: The Director's Cut which has, Wolverine style, just been leaked onto the internet as a torrent file, three weeks ahead of San Diego Comic Con[...]

Let's talk about the WATCHMEN movie, since nobody is anymore.  And while we're at it, let's talk about the 20th CENTURY BOYS movie trilogy Why?  Because there might be something instructive to be learned here. It's fitting that movies of both WATCHMEN and 20th CENTURY BOYS should come out in the same time period.  Their original[...]

Think about it, what else has Moore written? The Watchmen scene with Kovacs, his mother and her customer? The scene in the boarding school with The Invisible Man in League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One? The predatory vicar scene in V For Vendetta? If you put everyone in the UK with copies of those books in jail for three[...]

While Americans are looking forward to Zack Snyder's extended director's cut of Watchmen on Blu Ray format, pushing out to 189 minutes, full of opportunities to freeze frame, compare to comic book panels, and nip out for a bathroom break, it looks like Brits have been left out in the Arctic wasteland. Brits get what's described[...]

I understand that Wanted and Kick-Ass co-creator Mark Millar and Watchmen and Martha Washington co-creator Dave Gibbons are working on a creator-owned comic book series. Wanted screencap with Watchmen smiley face Mark Millar, from Coatbridge outside Glasgow, has had a number of recent high-profile comic book successes, from Authority to Ultimate X-Men to the record-breaking Civil War[...]