YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MORE WATCHMEN LINKS
We keep getting dragged back in!!! This is the biggest example of a front loaded media sensation we've ever seen. Has everyone just been storing up their secret desire to write about WATCHMEN all...
WATCHMEN #1 on Amazon
As of this writing, the WATCHMEN trade paperback is the #1 selling BOOK on Amazon.com. Not graphic novel. BOOK.Sweet.
WARNING: Chris Ware spotted on Kindle
At Gearlog, Brian Heater demonstrates the dangerous, growing threat of the Kindle, as he easily uses the "import .pdf" function to load WATCHMEN, X-MEN, and even Jimmy Corrigan into the device. Something must be...
TOKYO: Gondry/Bell film opens
TOKYO, a new triptych film directed by Michel Gondry, opened on Friday, and one of the segments is an adaptation of Gabrielle Bell’s comic book, CECIL AND JORDAN IN NEW YORK, in which a...
TINTIN movie update: Filming finished?
OKAY, now with WATCHMEN promos finally done, let's move to the NEXT beloved classic comic movie, shall we? And what better candidate than...TINTIN! Tatiana Siegel at Variety has the first detailed article...
WATCHMEN wins the weekend, but ultimate victory a question mark
As expected, WATCHMEN easily stood atop the weekend box office with $55.7 million:
Warner Bros.' edgy superhero pic "Watchmen" grossed an estimated $55.7 million from 3,611 theaters in its domestic B.O. debut, coming in lower...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: January 2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
The big news on the January sales chart is a catastrophic crash of WildStorm's average periodical sales. The monthly direct-market numbers of the DC Comics sub-label hovered around the 10K mark for...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: January 2009
By Paul O'Brien
The new year begins with a relatively quiet month on the charts. The big news, of course, is Barack Obama's unexpectedly popular appearance in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Ironically, the other significant...
Penultimate WATCHMEN linkage – UPDATE
Will 'Watchmen' live up to the hype? WATCHMEN has the widest opening EVER for an R-rated movie and midnight screenings are tracking way ahead of 300...if it breaks $70 million, it wil be the...
REVIEW: WATCHMEN, flaws and all
I promised to give a fuller review of WATCHMEN, but it seems that my feelings are much like those of everyone who has already seen it. Those who liked it and those who didn't...
Reynolds on benchmarks
We've been waiting a long time for someone to sit down and ask Eric Reynolds what he thinks about Diamond's benchmarks, and Chris Mautner finally stepped up to do it himself. The general thrust...
Quick news roundup
A few important news bits that we hadn't previously covered:
§ Announced at WonderCon, IDW will present the final complete edition of THE ROCKETEER for the first time ever. The late Dave Stevens had...
