How Times Have Changed

Still working on the War of The Gods annotations and as I was ploughing through copies of Who’s Who in an attempt to identify a character, I came across this little gem:

That’s the Watchmen entry from Who’s Who Update ’87 #5 and I couldn’t help chuckling over the last line:

Yeah . . . someone should really tell that to Batman . . .

Watchmen Posters

Just came across this promotional poster for Watchmen in Infinity Inc #29 from the summer of ’86:

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Gibbons’ art looks gorgeous in black and white; again, I’m tempted by the black and white version of Watchmen as I was when I found the last poster.

The quote at the bottom didn’t sound familiar to me and a quick hunt around the net seems to confirm my suspicion that it’s original to the poster and echoes a famous line from Caligula . . . because, you know, that’s someone you want to emulate.

While hunting on the net, though, I found the film version of the above:

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which is pretty faithful to the original.

And look at that release date – was it really nearly eight years ago?

Who Legos The Watchmen?

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Early Christmas present from my mate Spike!

Tiny Lego awesomeness!

Watchmen Black And White Ad

Just came across this on the back of Infinity Inc #32 from 1986:

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Don’t think I’ve seen that one before and I’m loving Gibbons’ artwork in black and white.

I’m now tempted to pick up the forthcoming Watchmen Noir edition.