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Preliminaries (Updated)

Update:  Here’s another link that appeared online:  IGN’s “Top Ten Most Memorable Moments from Watchmen“.

First, here are a couple of links to online “annotated” versions of Watchmen (the book):

• Watching the Detectives:  The site bills itself as “an internet companion” to the book; it’s akin to a Wiki, although the layout is different from anything like Wikipedia.  It’s provenance is excellent.  Maintained through the University of Baltimore’s School of Information Arts and Technologies, one of its founders is Stuart Moulthrop.  He’s a noted and very well respected media artist/theorist, especially in my world of games studies.
• The Annotated Watchmen:  If Watching the Detectives leans toward the academic side, this site is geared toward the lay-reader (and the parent site suggests exactly this!).  It’s a bit easier to navigate, though perhaps not as detailed.  Pay special attention to the “Characters” and “World of Watchmen” links on the left-hand side — the better parts of the site, in my opinion.  Like any good postmodern fiction, Watchmen plays heavily with historical events, mixing the accepted historical record with alternate histories and plain fiction.  Catching on to the idea that Richard Nixon is still president in 1985 can be a bit disorienting…

Also, the February 27th issue of Entertainment Weekly has a cover story on the film.  It’s not much, really — only a few pages.  But it’s a quick primer to some of the news and details that surround Watchmen and the film adaptation.

And…they did rip my title from my last post for their article!  Or maybe “Who will Watch Watchmen?” is a little too obvious!? [click to continue…]

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