Got an essay up at Shotgun Reviews about Watchmen and aging. Check it out.
The Watchmen trailer is beautiful, a comic fan’s wet dream—it’s lush and dark and brooding and scary, and the world is perfect. It gives away a little too much, but that’s not my biggest complaint.
It rubbed me the wrong way only for one reason—the ages are all wrong.
man I have to read watchmen again. It’s the only comic book that survived my comic backlash of the last 5 years or so.
Oh, and also? My hip hop alias is DJ Dr. Manhattan.
…that is, if I rapped.
um, you should rap
I was wondering why they were all so blatantly young too, and I forced myself to assume that everything in the previews was flashback … but that was wishful thinking, I guess. They better at least get Laurie’s cool cigarette holder right!!