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Lost Comic Epic Reappears On Australian Stage
The original Miracleman comic has been out of print for years and become famous for the legal battles surrounding its copyright. At one point, Sandman and American Gods writer Neil Gaiman took the creator of Spawn to court in order to regain copyright that he may never have owned in the first place. But who could've guessed that the place you're most likely to see Miracleman - arguably the series that made Alan Moore's career - would be in an Australian theater? More »
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Nite Owl's Study Is A Museum Of The Minutemen
In the latest behind-the scenes Watchmen diary from UGO original graphic novel artist Dave Gibbons explains how shocked and amazed he was by the attention to detail all around the set. And so are we — especially when it comes to has-been superhero Nite Owl's study. Click through for a clip, plus a gallery of the old time photos that adorn Nite Owl's walls, showing him at the height of his crime-fighting days. Plus some copies of his tell-all novel Under The Hood. More »
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Watchmen Shouldn't Be A Movie
All of the discussion about next March's Watchmen movie has focused on whether it'll be faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal graphic novel. But really, they're missing the point — Watchmen shouldn't be a movie at all. It only makes narrative sense as a comic book, because so much of its strengths are tied to the comics format and it's all about the history of comics. A movie version, no matter how faithful, will be empty and pointless. More »
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Superheroes Who Get Laid All The Time
We didn't mean to give the wrong impression with last week's examination of superheroes who can't get any — there are plenty of superheroes whose utility belts are covered with notches. From "hairy-chested love god Batman" to the swinging Spider-man to the sensuous She Hulk, the superhero genre offers plenty of playas. Here's our examination of the superheroes for whom action is their reward. More »
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You Watch The Watchmen!
The official blog for Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie just released five new images, showing a first look at the costumes for the film's main characters. As with the previous images we've seen from this film, it's obvious Snyder's obsessive attention to detail will make Watchmen the most perfect homage to Dave Gibbons' art and designs you could imagine. Of course, copying Gibbons' 1980s images is the easy part: doing justice to Alan Moore's dark allegory of power-mad superheroes and Cold War paranoia will be much, much harder... especially so far removed from the Cold War. More »
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This. Is. The Black Freighter!
Gerard Butler confirmed that he's voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film. But then Warners later nixed the idea, probably to keep the length down. More »
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Zack Snyder reports that the "20 years in the making" Watchmen film is now in the can, although there's still the entire arduous process of post-production ahead. Given that master-of-space-and-time Dr. Manhattan is bright blue and nude half the time in the graphic novel, post-production is not an enviable task. We just hope they make antihero Rorshach's blots move around via some CGI techno-jiggery, because we need to see roving oil slicks to make us swallow this thing. Snyder posted the above image as a gift, and while it doesn't look identical to the comic panels, it's close enough to the storyboards. Just keep your fingers crossed for this comic book flick. Watchmen Wrapped [Thanks Timothy]
Does This Inkblot Resemble a Pyromaniac?
Zack Snyder reports that the "20 years in the making" Watchmen film is now in the can, although there's still the entire arduous process of post-production ahead. Given that master-of-space-and-time Dr. Manhattan is bright blue and nude half the time in the graphic novel, post-production is not an enviable task. We just hope they make antihero Rorshach's blots move around via some CGI techno-jiggery, because we need to see roving oil slicks to make us swallow this thing. Snyder posted the above image as a gift, and while it doesn't look identical to the comic panels, it's close enough to the storyboards. Just keep your fingers crossed for this comic book flick. Watchmen Wrapped [Thanks Timothy]
alan moore
Alan Moore Documentary Will Melt Your Eyes And Ears
You may have read Alan Moore's work in Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V For Vendetta, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but do you know much about the guy behind some of the greatest comics of the turn of the millennium? AlterTube has posted a 2003 documentary about him, which you can watch after the jump. If you haven't seen or heard Moore before, you might be in for a bit of a shock. Or, he might be exactly what you were expecting. 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.
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io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen
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.
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Black Dossier: Better If You Don't Read The Words
With the release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, writer Alan Moore continues his one man mission to make comics full of sex and violence into extraordinarily boring lectures about classic literature and the importance thereof. It wasn't always like this, of course; Moore's earlier work demonstrated not only a command of the comic medium unparalleled in his contemporaries but also an intelligence, wit and pop-cultural awareness that made books like Watchmen, From Hell and V For Vendetta into enjoyable genre works that made you think. Hell, even the first two series of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were fun enough in their way. But all of those books had the one thing that Black Dossier lacks: An interesting plot. More »
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Watchmen Comic-Within-A-Comic Becomes Its Own Movie
The movie version of Alan Moore's classic dysfunctional superhero comic book Watchmen continues to move forward, although one key element might be coming to your DVD player before the film comes out. More »
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Alan Moore Talks About Publisher Break-Up
Comic bigwig Alan (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell) Moore's latest book, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier, may only have hit US stores this morning - copyright issues and rumored stupid publisher tricks keeping it away from the shores of other countries - but the notoriously outspoken Moore is already talking about the book's difficult birth. More »
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Must Read: V For Vendetta
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: V For Vendetta
Date: 1982-1988
Vitals: It's fascist future England time! Only a carnival-masked psychopath can save us from the heavy hand of an Orwellian uber-state. But can terrorism, however jolly, ever be justified? (Answer: yes.) More »
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Must Read: Watchmen
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Watchmen
Date: 1986-1987
Vitals: Possibly the most famous graphic novel that's not about mice and genocide. Someone is wiping out the last of the superheroes as the cold war starts to sizzle. The story deconstructs superhero cliches even as the characters tear themselves apart. More »
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Must Read: Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything
Date: 1985
Vitals: Mongul, a super space bastard, gives Superman a birthday "present," a parasitic plant that latches onto his chest and plunges him into a dream where his homeworld never exploded. It's up to Batman, Wonder Woman and Robin to drag Supes back to reality. More »
league of extraordinary gentlemen
Must Read: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Date: 1999-present
Vitals: A bunch of pulpy public-domain characters from 100 years ago form a super team to fight Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, and the Martian invaders from War of the Worlds. The result? Manages to be campy and literary. Call it camperary, maybe. More »
