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DC Comics To Release Watchmen Prequels

The series, aptly entitled Before Watchmen, will follow the Watchmen as well as the Minutemen, the original super group. In addition to these stories will be separate, continuing story called Curse of the Crimson Sailor much like the original comic being intersected with The Tales of the Black Freighter.  read more

Comic Books Redesigned as Cheap Paperback Novels

Over the years, comic books have grown from what were once considered to be throw-away funny rags for children to a well-respected form of storytelling for all ages. The graphic designers at Fonographiks.com have taken the literary merit of comic books to the next level with their re-interpretations of classic comics as cheap paperback novels....  read more

A Dozen of Literature's Greatest Jerks

The other day, while listening to LCD Soundsystem’s “Dance Yrself Clean” the line, “Talking like a jerk / Except you are an actual jerk / And living proof that sometimes friends are mean” started knocking around in our heads, and it got us to thinking about all the jerks we’ve met in our lifetimes. From there, we started thinking about all the jerks we’ve read about in our lifetimes—there are plenty of literary characters we’ve encountered that almost make the real-life jerks seem tolerable. Below are a dozen that particularly stand out....  read more

Five Genre Fiction Gateway Drugs Other Than Battlestar Galactica (Which is Still Awesome)

With the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series concluded, we've run out of socially-acceptable sci-fi to gush over. That should make you think, shouldn't it? Wouldn't life be more fun if we could step outside of the all-encompassing irony and self-awareness of modern living and allow ourselves a little bit of childlike wonder at the power of the imagination?...  read more

Snyder confirms Watchmen director's cut release in July

Despite the underwhelming box-office numbers and the harsh criticism the movie received during its March release, Director Zack Snyder has confirmed that Watchmen is getting a second chance at the box office and the director's cut will see a limited release this July in New York and Los Angeles. ...  read more

Rainn Wilson and James Gunn shopping anti-hero script

If you're not all burned out on movies about super heroes that are quirky and bad at their jobs (Mystery Men, The Specials, Hancock, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Watchmen, etc.), Rainn Wilson announced recently via Twitter that he and James Gunn (The Specials, Slither) were shopping around an "f 'd up low rent Watchmen" to indie producers....  read more

Watchmen sets pre-release record for venues

As frenzied predictions for Watchmen’s first weekend pour in ($50 million? $70 million, on par with 300? $100 million?!?), the movie already set one record before it opened. At 3,611 theaters, it will play at the most venues ever for an R-rated movie. ...  read more

Watchmen

Zack Snyder's adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel takes place in the mid-1980s...  read more

Catching Up With...Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons

There's a tiny detail in one of the scenes from Watchmen that's indicative of the graphic novel's larger complexity...  read more

Watchmen director's cut will arrive in July

As divided reviews roll in for Watchmen, director Zack Snyder has revealed that should the movie open to sizable numbers, a 190-minute director’s cut might screen in L.A. and New York theaters—and that regardless of the movie’s fortunes a couple weekends from now, the longer version will be available in some format by July. ...  read more