This Video May Prove Dr. Manhattan Actually Exists
Watchmen is really upping the quality of these viral marketing schemes. Those Dark Knight viral sites like, the Joker's defaced version of The Gotham Times, The Ha Ha Ha Times, were fun but left lingering questions about why a criminal psychopath would spend so much time on decoupage and scanning. This video about Dr. Manhattan, done in a style that perfectly replicates a '70s network news broadcast, on the other hand, is pretty great--both as marketing and as a companion piece to the film. If this were one of my dementia "bad days", I'd think this was real:
A Dr. Manhattan Superfriends-style cartoon! Brilliant!
What if, instead of making the transition into a 2009 blockbuster film by a "visionary" director, Alan Moore's Watchmen were adapted into a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon where Silk Spectre plays a keytar and the Comedian hopes for a kiss? That scenario is no longer hypothetic... / Continue →
Just when I thought I was caught up with all the peripheral Watchmen media, Super Punch points out there's also this official Flickr page of fake magazine ads, newspaper clippings, auction listings, and anything else Warner Bros. graphic design interns could think of making. Th... / Continue →
This new video for Watchmen should clear up some things for those wondering if, in a fictional 1985 that imagines a world with actual superheroes and Nixon still in office, Flock of Seagulls remain as a new wave force to be reckoned with. Of course they do:... / Continue →
