Watchmen Archives

It has been observed (sometimes by me) that the powers of Dr Manhattan in Watchmen are basically the powers of the average reader of a comic book We can read it in any order we like, go back, flick forward, experience time as we choose rather than how the characters live it or how the[...]

And while serious props should be given to Shakir and Pineda, it's Cho who stepped up to show everyone that even a pandemic and a serious injury wouldn't be enough to keep him from a role he was born to play. Images: Netflix/HBO And why did it succeed? Because whether Nemec, the producers, and the streaming service[...]

I remember when Comic Showcase in London's Seven Dials district used to sell original artwork from Watchmen, V for Vendetta and Marvelman from £40 to £80 each I picked up a couple of pages from Marvelman, only to have them stolen from me on the train home Yeah, exactly Anyway, that was the eighties for[...]

It's The Human Target time! Tom King as a writer is one heavily influenced by Watchmen and if anyone was going to do Rorschach, it would be him After all, in recent years we have had a number of unauthorised sequels and prequels to Watchmen DC Comics gave us a bevy of Before Watchmen prequels[...]

Look, we've made no bones about the fact that we would love to see either a second season or an expansion of HBO and Damon Lindelof's Watchmen universe In our minds, we envisioned Lindelof as an over-arching executive producer who opens up the sandbox to up-and-coming writers and directors to tell their tales Do we[...]

An easy mark, perhaps, but the score to the drama evolves just as the show does and makes the music undeniably effective, if not a tad heavy-handed at times. Watchmen (Image: HBO) 2) "Watchmen": Similar to both Stranger Things and Westworld, Watchmen features a soundtrack filled with both an iconic strong score featuring memorable motifs and re-done[...]

This article below originally ran over a year ago, celebrating the launch of I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel's BBC TV drama that focused on sexual assault, but also reinvented the television drama, in much the same way that Watchmen did the superhero comic book thirty-five years ago I described I May Destroy You as[...]

Rorschach, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Tom King and Jorge Fornes reaches its conclusion today, with the final issue #12 from DC Comics Including a guest appearance from the creative team… Rorschach #12 by Tom King and Jorge Fornes. The series has followed an unnamed detective, following the threads of an attempted assassination of the Republican[...]

Two original artwork pages from Watchmen, and two original artwork pages from V For Vendetta go under the hammer from Heritage Auctions today as part of a lot of over a hundred premium comic book artwork pages enough to make a grown comic book fan weep One page from Watchmen #3 with Silk Spectre and[...]

Tom King is the writer of Rorschach, the twelve-issue unauthorised Watchmen sequel drawn by Jorge Fornes, currently being published by DC Comics With one issue to go, he has also been attending Awesome Con in his home town of Washington DC Although not everything went smoothly for this ex-CIA agent-turned-comic book writer He tweeted out[...]

Rorschach #11 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, the penultimate issue of this unauthorized sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes Go ahead and screw over Alan Moore by reading the preview below, Watchmenbronies! RORSCHACH #11 (OF 12) DC Comics 0621DC138 0621DC139 – RORSCHACH #11 (OF 12) CVR B ARTHUR ADAMS VAR (MR) – $4.99 (W)[...]

But nevertheless, I did find it amusing that he chose to "Like" my description of the movie as "Stupid Watchmen" in a non-spoiler The Suicide Squad review I wrote yesterday ahead of its general release in the US this week I mean, I did totally mean it in a positive way, Zack Snyder's movie gets[...]

The character that originally inspired Watchmen's Comedian, here he is more the opposite of Rorschach, absolutist in the other direction.  In that case, Peter Capaldi's Thinker is playing the role of a Nazi Ozymandius, and it is Rick Flag who becomes the All-American Rorschach And oh look, they all got to fight a massive squid[...]

HBO Max is tapping Oscar Sharp, Damon Lindelof (Lost, Watchmen), and Matt Reeves (The Batman, Planet of the Apes films) to develop a magical-realist medical drama called The Human Conditions The series follows a young British doctor who must learn to treat impossible, fantastical illnesses by healing the emotional issues that underlie them — and[...]

Personally, I'm all about HBO's Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof's theory on where Bezos got the idea for "Blue Origin" from Think back to that scene early in the series's run when Jean Smart's FBI Agent Laurie Blake reaching into her silver briefcase for a little (well, definitely not "little") bluish trip down memory lane (was[...]

Rorschach #10 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, continuing the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes In this issue, we will learn more about the attempted assassination of Governor Turley What secrets will be uncovered? Check out the preview below. RORSCHACH #10 (OF 12) DC Comics 0521DC102 0521DC103 – RORSCHACH #10 (OF 12)[...]

This week sees the tenth issue of Rorschach #10, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes being published by DC Comics Which included another dive into the alternate history of the Watchmen world in 2021, going back a couple of decades. Why Watchmen Never Had A 9/11 (Rorschach #10 Spoilers) And it looks[...]

Who watches the Watchmen? And who tweets out Wendy's Watchmen posts? That was the question humanity had to grapple with yesterday as a social media employee freelancing for fast-food chain Wendy's references a meme in an attempt to farm likes/attention for their employer And despite the world-weariness of the whole endeavour, it seems to have[...]

HBO's Watchmen EP Tom Spezialy has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios, with Deadline Hollywood reporting exclusively that Spezialy's deal has him joining the series as the showrunner and an executive producer Amazon and Sony representatives declined to comment for DH's reporting. Silk (Image: Marvel Comics) Created by Dan Slott & Humberto Ramos and first introduced[...]

Rorschach is an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes Ostensibly the investigation of an attempted assassination of a Presidential candidate by someone dressed as Rorschach And set in the world of Watchmen many years later It has gone on some entertaining tangents that may well double back into the narrative[...]

Rorschach #9 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, continuing DC Comics' authorised spinoff of Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes In this preview, we get a glimpse back at a scene from the past between Laura Cummings and Wil Myerson, as Rorshach manages to crack Cummings up with a joke The real[...]

Finally, we take a break from our trips throughout TV history for our first look at some "BCTV Weird" that looks at Andy Kaufman, ABC's late-night show Fridays, and one of the biggest TV influences in our lives; then we wrap things up with today's "Random Thought" and this one is all about Black Mirror. Watchmen,[...]

Of all of the conversation-worthy moments coming from HBO and Damon Lindelof's Peabody Award-winning pseudo-sequel "remix" take on Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen, the series' recreation of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the destruction of Black Wall Street was not only impactful in ways unseen on television but it[...]

Today sees a new, eagerly awaited comic by Tom King and Jorge Fornes, Rorschach #8, the latest issue of gthe unauthorised sequel to Watchmen The previous issue made the extraordinary twist of having Frank Miller be the new Rorschach, which plays out in another unexpected fashion. Looks like Frank Miller has been learning his lines.And the[...]

Diarra Kilpatrick, Bonnie Somerville, and Joe Dinicol are among the six cast in USA Network and Don Johnson's Nash Bridges revival.

In Rorschach #1 by Tom King and Jorge Fornes, an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen published by DC Comics, we learned of a copy of a tape by Wil Myerson, a character based on Steve Ditko and who takes up the Rorschach identity in 2020, before trying, and failing to assassinate the Presidential candidate Turley. The tape is based on[...]

An unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes, published by DC Comics, set in the present day, with a new Rorschach, killed while trying to assassinate +the Republican Presidential candidate, Turley. With Wil Myerson acting as a parallel for comic book creator Steve Ditko It is established in the Watchmen universe that pirates rather[...]

Rorschach, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes, published by DC Comics Published this week, Rorschach #7 looks to follow up directly from Rorschach #6 Which should not be a surprise. And we are seeing The Detective following up on the lives of Laura Cummings and Wil Myerson, both of them killed[...]

Nash Bridges star Don Johnson confirmed on The Ellen Show that he's prepping for the revival and revealed who would be joining him.

It's true, I'm starting to really enjoy Rorschach, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Tom King and Jorge Fornes, published by DC Comics Published today, Rorschach #6 is framed by three narratives. Firstly, the letters between Lorna and Wil Myerson, the creator of Pontius Pirate (now a Broadway musical), and who becomes the new Rorschach, the[...]