Feb 13 2009 'Tales of the Black Freighter' Trailer: Check Out This Shark!

When Watchmen comes to theaters on March 6, don't be surprised if you miss part of the story--and not just because you're watching it through the crude nylon mask of your Rorschach costume Tales of the Black Freighter, the castaway comic that runs parallel to the main story, was cut from the film, but will be released as an animated DVD on March 24. The newly-released trailer makes it look like it was meant to be part of MTV's Liquid Television, so unless things have changed since 1992, my mom probably won't want me watching it:

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Feb 3 2009 Images of Tales of the Black Freighter

Director Zack Snyder was forced to cut Tales of the Black Freighter, the castaway comic within the Watchmen, from his adaptation of the comic--but it will not go unrealized! An animated DVD of the tale(s) goes on sale March 24, and JoBlo has some screenshots from it. I can already tell animation won't do the story the same justice as seeing extras strapped under a raft pretending to be bloated corpses, but I guess it will have to do.