Watchmen may not debut for another seven months, but that doesn’t stop Empire from devoting an issue to the Zack Snyder adaptation. On the magazine’s website, you can see both Watchmen covers, four new images from the movie, and an interactive peek inside the issue.
Related: The magazine’s “50 Greatest Comic Book Characters”
July 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am
why is Doctor Manhattan suddenly Doctor Bananahammock?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am
The “Citizen Kane of Superhero Movies” pronouncement is just a tad premature, no?
July 31st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Kinda sucks they couldnt keep Dr Manhattan naked though, to be totally true to the comic…
July 31st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
they are staying true to the comic. that was, at one point in his career, his costume. he went from a full body suit with a helmet to a tank top/shorts combo thing, to the thong. then he was naked.
(i re-read the book over the weekend)
July 31st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Whatever. I too feel totally gypped at not seeing Doc Manhattan’s digital c0ck.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
i *think* you can see it in the trailer. the moment when he reappears in the cafeteria…
July 31st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
“I too feel totally gypped at not seeing Doc Manhattan’s digital c0ck.”
How amazing is it that we live in a world where that sentence could actually make sense in ANY context? Maybe “amazing” isn’t the right word…
But yeah, it’s pretty obvious that Speedo was ‘shopped in. There’s more than a few shots bouncing around where it looks like he’s got more of a Ken doll thing going on down there. That might just be for the trailer and the publicity shots, o’course.
But y’know…if you had total power over your molecules and built your body from the toes up, would you settle for the little tallywhacker he gave himself in the comic? I mean, I guess they didn’t want him to call him Doctor Massivetonker, but still…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:12 pm
@Inkbot – I’m pretty sure it’s just a shop for the cover of the magazine. The trailer and stills I’ve seen show him without the speedo, but it’s more blurred / ambiguous and you can’t really see it.
@Evan Waters – I think they are referring to the fact Watchmen is the most highly regarded comic ever created, much like Citizen Kane is for movies, and not saying that it will be the greatest movie (which it could still be).
@Vinnie Bartilucci – Dr Manhattan was a grower, not a shower.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:09 am
I think that’s what they’re trying to get at, but I think the phrasing is wrong. “The Citizen Kane of Superhero Movies” would be, by analogy, the best or one of the best films in that genre, while Watchmen the comic… blah blah rhetoric. In fairness I can’t think of a proper short phrasing of that concept.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I guess they didn’t want him to call him Doctor Massivetonker, but still thanks..
November 21st, 2010 at 8:19 am
I’m not sure I want him ..
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