http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/silk spectre http://io9.com/tag/silk spectre But a week after illustrations of Nite Owl and The Comedian hit the net, we're now looking at what appears to be artist Amanda Conner's take on the second Silk Spectre (Laurie Juspeczyk) from the upcoming Watchmen prequels. Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston claims to have received this artwork from a shadowy tipster (who really should've quoted Rorschach for theatricality's sake). More »
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You've seen the posters, the many trailers and featurettes and followed the lawsuit. But with Watchmen hitting screens on Friday, you may still be wondering what it's all about. Let us try to help. More »
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That would be Dr. Manhattan. Yes, he spends a lot of the film naked; being transformed from an everyday nuclear scientist into what is essentially a glowing blue god with powers and perspective beyond those of normal human beings tends to make you less bothered about things like "clothing," apparently. More »
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In the world of comics, superheroes - like movies - have sequels. This wasn't always the case, and, confusingly, still isn't; Superman is still Clark Kent and Batman is still Bruce Wayne (Let's just ignore that whole "Battle For The Cowl" thing for now, huh?) despite the fact that they've fought for justice alongside multiple Green Lanterns, Flashes and even Green Arrows. Leaving aside the tricky question of just how aging works for superheroes, Watchmen's "legacy characters" - to use a comic term for superheroes who pass their costumes and names onto others - are each an important part of the world in which the story takes place; Silk Spectre II is the daughter of the original Silk Spectre (Much in the same way that one of Moore's inspiration for the character, DC's Black Canary, was revealed to actually be her own daughter in a ridiculous 1980s storyline that preceded Watchmen's release), while the second Nite Owl was inspired to take up the cowl by the original, Hollis Mason, whose presence haunts Watchmen in more ways that one. More »
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The next Watchmen featurette from Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of Alan Moore's pivotal graphic novel is a shout out to all the movie's super-ladies. While we've seen plenty of Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II, walking in slo-mo in her thigh highs, this time we get a better look at her mother Sally Jupiter, played by Carla Gugino. The featurette delves into the women of Watchmen, and shows a few hits from some of the more pivotal Watchmen moments. Plus, I gotta say it: Sally is one foxy, slightly intoxicated, cougar. More »
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While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film's script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these it's easy to see why. Check out the breakdown of the top three below. More »
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