Gerard Butler Leads Watchmen's 'Tales Of The Black Freighter' DVD Short

Gerard Butler will voice the Captain in Tales Of The Black Freighter, an animated short that will be included as a bonus feature for Watchmen's eventual DVD release, according to Empire...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Lawsuits Put 'Watchmen' & 'Hobbit' Films in Jeopardy

Two unrelated lawsuits filed this week could bring an end to Warner Bros.' upcoming Watchmen film, as well as to the two planned Hobbit movies from New Line Cinema.

The J.J.R. Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema, stating that the studio failed to pay part of the profits from its hugely succesfully Lord of the Rings film trilogy, while Fox is suing Warner Bros. over the rights to the Watchmen movie, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

‘Watchmen’ Artist Dave Gibbons Visits the Movie Set - Part 2

The official Watchmen site blog has been updated with Part 2 of Dave Gibbons's visit to the Watchmen movie set this month.

Gibbons, who is co-creator (along with Alan Moore) and artist of the Watchmen graphic novel, posted Part 1 of his visit to Zack Snyder's movie set earlier this month...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

'Watchmen' Artist Dave Gibbons Visits the Movie Set - Part 1

The Watchmen movie official blog has been updated with a post by Dave Gibbons, co-creator (along with Alan Moore) and artist of the Watchmen graphic novel, who visited the movie's set this month.

The photo at right that accompanies the blog entry, which is listed as "Part 1 of 2," shows Gibbons next to the costume for the Dollar Bill character, a member of The Minutemen, the precursor to the Watchmen superhero team. (Click photo for larger view.)

Of the visit to the set of the Zack Snyder big-screen adaptation, Gibbons starts off his entry with, "It's perhaps the most surreal experience of my life."...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

'Watchmen' Movie Photos Vs. Comic Art

Maxim has an article comparing the four recently released Watchmen movie's backlot set photos to the original comic book illustrations by Dave Gibbons...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

'Watchmen' Backlot Photos

Director Zack Snyder has posted images from the various backlot sets of Watchmen at the movie's official site.

The film, based based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, hits theaters March 6, 2008, and stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 8-22-07

Green Lantern Corps #15
I am really enjoying the Sinestro War story line going on between Green Lantern and this book. It’s high octane action with some great character moments. This particular issue is basically the Battle of Helm’s Deep in space. The Sinestro Corps have come to the Green Lantern planet of Mogo, who is not only a source of great morale for the GL’s, but apparently is the being responsible for find new ring bearers when the old ones die. So, it’s pretty important to the GL’s to protect him, and it’s important for the SC to destroy him. This is big epic action though, planets literally collide. It’s also nice that you can read this and add another layer to the story going on in Green Lantern, or you can ignore it and not miss anything. As with the story, this is the way big event comics should be. Dave Gibbons handles the large cast well, as there are a ton of characters on each side, many of them with alien dialects, but it never gets confusing, and a special mention to the letterer Phil Balsman for making each characters word balloons distinctive. Patrick Gleason and Angel Unzueta split the pencil work and really bring a lot of intensity to the work. The action leaps off the page and in a story with this much going on, the story telling never makes it confusing. Get over your event fatigue and pick this book up. --4 out of 5...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!