Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Watchmen Mania Continues:
Animated Comic Available On iTunes

It's a good week to be a Watchmen fan! First we get the assiduously "faithful" trailer for Zack Snyder's film, and now the first of twelve animated shorts (one for each issue) constructed from Dave Gibbons' beautiful original art has hit the iTunes store for FREE! The "short" is about twenty minutes long, and boasts an unabridged telling of the Watchmen tale, something the live action feature will not be able to come close to accomplishing. It even has the chapter headings and closing quotes. And there's no worry about deviating from the source material in any way, because it IS the source material. The only problem is that it's narrated audio book style, meaning one man does all the voices. And not particularly well, all the time. But it didn't bother AHR, and this is still a really exciting new way to experience the book. I can't imagine how long it took to construct some of these animations from tiny comic scans. But the hard work paid off. With an adaptation this spot on, I'm actually left to wonder... Why do we need the movie?

After the jump bonus... A leaked video of the first full Watchmen movie scene?

2 comments:

Degan said...

wow... they put alot of effort in that... it looks amazing. And i was fine with the narrator... until we got to Laurie Jupiter... then i felt uncomfortable.

Anyhow, i'm about due for my biennial rereading of the book anyway-so i'm glad to watch this! Pretty amazing animation.

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