Saturday Morning Watchmen

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797

I realize this is parody, but it breaks my heart by becoming the thing it seeks to mock.

Who Wants to Watch the Watchmen?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/watchmen/

Early reviews of Watchmen are mixed, to say the least. I've been avoiding paying too close attention because I don't want my palate spoiled, but yet I still feel like I've been battered back and forth between high and low expectations. I've settled now, at the eleventh hour, to a calm expectation and hope. I expect to ignore the soul of the book. I'm not hoping for it to be good. What I hope is that it will do well enough and be intriguing enough to lead a million non-comic book readers into stores to pick up the original.

DC actually capitalizing on anticipated movie success?!?!

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/02/dcs-after-watchmen-whats-next-promotion/#more-4163

Chris and I have often questioned the editorial decisions going on at DC, even when we've enjoyed their results. However, this one seems like something everyone can appreciate. Counting on Watchmen to bring an influx of comics outsiders in to stores, DC is putting out $1 special editions of other, more literary genre pieces: Swamp Thing #21, Planetary #1, Transmet #1, Preacher #1, and... uh... Identity Crisis #1. Everyone raises their eyebrow at that last one as not quite sitting on par with the others, but DC is welcoming non-readers with very open arms for a change and this is highly commendable.

Special on Dr. Manhattan

Dammit. Just when I've steeled myself against any possible frustration by assuming I'll hate the film, evocative material like this has to be released and renew my sense of hope. More pre-bonus material at The New Frontiersman.