Watchmen

  • Juneteenth: HBO allows viewers to watch ‘Watchmen’ for free…

    Though it lead to major divisions and discussions earlier this year when first broadcast on HBO, Watchmen – Damon Lindelof’s thematic ‘sequel’ to the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons epic, groundbreaking 1980’s graphic novel – certainly covered a lot of ground and received a lot of attention. Though it...
  • Omelettes and Omnipotence: The final tic-toc on ‘Watchmen’…

    It’s 1921 and a race-crime rises to the level of wholesale massacre as  Tulsa is torn apart by attacks that will cast a shadow down the decades… and a young boy survives a day he will never forget. It’s 1985 and Nixon is still President, the Watergate scandal never...
  • Tick-Tock, HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ trailer begins the countdown…

    It took decades for Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen to move from its position as best-selling, seminal graphic novel to controversial (and perhaps too reverential) adaptation for the screen, courtesy of Zack Snyder. The HBO series of the same name seems to be moving a little quicker and...
  • A timely tale: HBO go sets a ‘Watchmen’…

    One of the few comics to have an impact on the entire industry and far beyond, Watchmen holds a unique place in the cultural landscape – it’s blood-stained smiley face first glimpsed in the 1980s limited comic series from DC. It was the comic that co-creator Alan Moore said...
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