NEWS: Comic Con 4

GEEK: Comic Con 4

This week’s Watchmen festival is finally wrapping up for me. I’m done. How much Watchmen can one guy take? Upon arriving, I thought this was a Comic Book Festival, but I was sadly mistaken. This was an awesome Watchmen commercial that I actually got to walk around in. How exciting is that?

As soon as I got off the train, I saw every person on the street was carrying a big Watchmen bag. They had Watchmen posters, and Watchmen toys and photos with their favorite Watchmen characters. Not everyone who wanted to see the Watchmen panel were able to get it, but the creators of the movie and the entire cast were there. And they talked about the movie!!!!

I found all the money the studio spent promoting Watchmen at Comic Con to be ridiculous. These are nerds. It is like trying to sell guns to the NRA. You know how the studio could market The Watchmen to nerds? Go to a remote town in Alaska and find a nerd. Then just walk up to him and whisper, “There’s going to be a Watchmen movie.” At that point, every nerd in the world will know. They have some sort of communication device.



Watchmen ship! Oh my God!



Watchmen toys! Holy shit!

Too bad The Watchmen trailer fucking blows.

Eh , I don't know that the trailer blows . I just doubt they can do the books justice in movie form . Watchmen really captured a time & mind set in America when it came out . And that time has passed . I just can't see non comic book folks being into this flick .

That ship looks like a giant pair of binoculars.

The problem with the Watchmen trailer is the same problem that I suspect the Watchmen movie will have - It's the wrong medium. The Watchmen is just as much about comics as it is about vigilantism, the cold war and questions of morality; in many ways it's more about comics than it is about those things. So unless they people behind the film have done something startling and rewrote the piece to comment on, I dunno, Hollywood or contemporary comic book movies it will just turn out to be a replica of a great piece of art in a substitute media. Sorta of like building a David out of Lego's or that guy who 'built Starry Night in Second Life. I'll still go see it, but I don't expect it to be the comic in anything but the outlines.

The character on the left looks a bit like a cross between one of the members from the Ambiguously Gay Duo and one of the Village People (got to be the mustache).

i c wut u did thar.

Would have been nice to hear something about the good bits of the show, tucked away in the back which need saving and deserve viewing rather than reading 4 moaning rants about all the bad stuff, i wasn't lucky enough to go let alone get my trip paid for...

The Rorshach figure looks awful. I pray that its a prototype. And that the movie is good.

I think perhaps everyones fears can be summed up in this panel Gordon McAlpin's webcomic, Multiplex.

The Rorshach figure looks awful. I pray that its a prototype. And that the movie is good.

I think perhaps everyones fears can be summed up in this panel Gordon McAlpin's webcomic, Multiplex.




Sorry for the double post.

oh i for one cant wait for the movie! Just re-read the book and im still blown away. Everything in the trailer looks true to the book

heh, i always have to remind myself that Watchmen is seminal when i read it, because i only got around to reading it the first time after growing up on a steady diet of comics that it had influenced.

The "Watchmen Ship" is actually Archie, Night Owl's ship.

I have read it, re-read and re-read again. I own the original editions 1 through 12 and have a Watchmen leg sleeve. I loved the Watchmen long before the movie was ever conceived. The series is far from new. It was originally drawn in the 80's, so the graphics and drawing style are relative to the time.

The action figures look like shit, most of the "collectibles" coming out now look like horse's ass and are overpriced cheap pieces of crap in anticipation of the movie. Thanks for fucking up the only thing i collected seriously.

I will be excited about the movie only after i see it and am happy with the way it was made, but the way it looks now, they're removing vital parts of the story that made the novel complete. They are probably going to make it so that anyone who didn't read the novel can understand it, which means it's dumbed-down for all of you non-nerds much like they have done with every comic book movie ever made.......ever. I also don't think two-hours is enough time to explain the entire novel and the sub-story contained within it. But there are promises of an extended cut DVD that will go more in-depth.

When i first saw the trailers, i got very excited, that excitement went away after i continued to read about the Fox/Warner Brothers clusterfuck and keep reading about what they are going to cut out of the movie in order to make it fit into the allotted time, the excitement has turned to disappointment and i kind of wish they had just left this one alone. There are plenty of other comics they can fuck up, like the continual disgrace of The Punisher.

and no, we don't have a communication device. Nerds communicate via high pitched squeals that only other nerds are capable of hearing.

*screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

See, I can't agree with you here. I thought it was mawkish and overall an amateur effort.

I didn't think it was all that amazing. Talk about a let down.

I find this interesting, I really liked the art style for the book. Although it certainly took some getting used to, I thought it matched the noir-style of the writing perfectly.
Personally, though, I should admit that I was a late comer to the book, as a result of my comic-geekiness trait being latent for many years. I first read it this past year, and absolutely loved it.

They actually changed the ending. You can see part of it in the Japanese trailer.

I'll probably enjoy the film for the sheer novelty of seeing the characters life-size and in motion, but I doubt it'll be anywhere near as satisfying as the book.

Yeah, I think Watchmen belongs to Gibbons as much as Moore, and thought the art was phenomenal. Can you imagine any other artist on it? I say thee nay! But then again, I'm a huge fan of the series (almost as much as Devil's Reject )

I agree with the above post that Watchmen is bound to the medium of comics, not only because of its interpretation of standard comic book tropes, but also in terms of how the story is told over the course of twelve (glorious) issues. I think the movie will have to differ from the series, just due to the fact that what works on a printed page may not work on a movie screen. How the hell do you make a film version of Chapter 5: Fearful Symmetry?!?

I'm still rabidly awaiting opening day, however...

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........*

they changed the ending ?

To what?

Shouldn't this be in lifestyle or something?