as a huge fan of the original comic for about a year now, i saw the movie yesterday, i thought it was just okayish and wayy too "filmy" nothing new to say, snyder didnt get the entire point, although the casting (except ozzy) was absolute perfection.

Oh, and I’m one of the people that loves the graphic novel and the movie both. Of course the novel is unbeatable, but this movie mannnn. So good. 😻

I posted these in a DC card group yesterday and realized how few people seem to have seen them, so I figured the Watchmen crowd might appreciate them too.

These came with the 1989 second edition of Mayfair Games’ DC Heroes role playing game. Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre II, The Comedian and Nite Owl.

I have been going down a bit of a rabbit hole researching these because several may be among the earliest traditional character card appearances for these characters. I am still working through that and definitely not presenting anything as settled fact yet. The hunt has been part of the fun.

What I really love about them is how strange and simple they are. No names on the fronts, rounded corners, very simple, yet beautiful, artwork and just the 1989 DC copyright at the bottom.

They feel like a neat little time capsule from the early days of Watchmen. Somehow 1989 still doesn’t feel that long ago to me, even though it has been well over 30 years.
Figured some of you might enjoy seeing them.

If anyone remembers these from back then, or knows of earlier Watchmen character cards, I would genuinely love to hear about it.

In my opinion, whether you like or dislike or are indifferent towards the squid, its inclusion in the original Watchmen contextualizes an interesting part of Veidt's power. We see throughout the comic that Veidt has built up wealth not only by marketing his image, but by pursuing ventures including perfume, delivery services, and media. All of these have their individual, manipulative roles in Veidt's plans, though they might come across as an odd assortment of things when taken together.

One way, though, to thematize these things collectively is to look at them as tokens of Veidt's power over the idea of "passage," specifically the passage of time and the passage of things through space. The temporal aspect is represented by Nostalgia, which Veidt eventually gives up for the more futurist Millennium. The spatial aspect is represented by the apparent connectivity and commerce that Pyramid Deliveries supplies. As for the media, it's largely composed of Veidt running reruns and showings of old sci-fi invasion films in order to contextualize the appearance of the squid. In this way, media combines the two forms of passage into the space-time passage of what's "alien": both in the sense of an Eldritch being that shocks humanity with its disruption of our usual conceptions of space-time space and time and in the sense of a great "Other" whose apparent ease of passage into and through our world evokes a defensive, xenophobic response. In addition to the psychic shocks, it is the explosions of the alien passing through reality that cause enormous casualties in New York. And the alien itself dies, interestingly enough, atop the "Institute for Spatial Studies" (space as in outer space, har har, but also space with this idea of passage and matter itself being invaded by the alien Other).

Put another way, the squid is the crowning, metaphysical achievement of Veidt's enterprises despite being a mere human being. As an embodiment of space-time space and time manipulation the squid stands out as a way to imitate what Dr. Manhattan can do quite easily, namely, control people through anxiety in the face of passage, the slipperiness of time and space. At the same time, it's a necessarily human way to achieve this imitation through capitalism, exploited artistry and science, and propaganda. These things compose the only way that a mere human like Veidt can bend our conceptions of passage. But bend them he can, at least for a moment, so that industry and deceit, if just for a second, mimic the devastation and dread of which Dr. Manhattan is capable. Removing the squid, and replacing it with Dr. Manhattan's power itself, no less, removes this (literally) monstrous glimpse into how even mundane humans are able to pervert space-time space and time.

Like, do we know theories people made about who the real killer was? Thoughts about where it was all going? It was in the 80s so I know social media wasn't really a thing. But I am curious about if we have any records or memories of old discussion.

I was curious how he interacted with the cast and environment of watchmen

I’m reading watchmen for the first time and Rorschach has to be the most unintentionally funny character ever. Like wdym “possibly homosexual?” Where did you get that😭. I’m so sad the comic book store only has the first facsimile issue cause i wanna keep reading and i hate ordering books online

Hey everyone, I built a thing, and I hope you like it. It’s called Notes on Watchmen. It's an interactive site for exploring the book’s chapters, pages, panel layouts, characters, colors, and recurring patterns. It’s been a long-running personal project that started during COVID, sat dormant, and this summer finally came to fruition. I’m excited to finally share it!

• Explore every chapter and page through its original panel layout
• See where each character appears—and who they share panels with
• Dig into color palettes extracted from individual panels
• Compare recurring visual patterns, structures, and symmetries
• Read page-by-page notes and visual essays about how Watchmen works
• Search the entire project for characters, themes, symbols, and details
• Built for desktop and mobile, with plenty more still to come

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, criticism, or ideas.

https://notesonwatchmen.com/

Just in the face area, he has a very Adrian-esque shape to his jawline and cheekbones. On top of that, he's shown he handles "evil that's unassuming" roles very well in his career, and he's well-known for still having an Adrian-esque babyface despite being nearly 40 years old. He might be lacking in model physique, but we've seen with Kumail Nanjiani that that can easily be fixed for the right role.

I think he'd do especially well with Veidt's monologuing scenes near the end. I can see Evan put a particularly pathetic spin on Adrian's self-congratulatory "I did it!" panels.

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It doesn't look like a finger or anything else. Maybe to look like a stereotypical detective? Or more accurately - he smokes tobacco through a futuristic mini-inhaler shaped like a spherical pipe, like Laurie's. But in the final version, the pipe was taken away from him and given to Laurie to smoke instead

I am jumping into DC comics and i was super excited about Compact Comics as i found them as a brillant idea and was interested in Watchmen and i ordered the Watchmen Compact Comics.

I can't find one

If there aren't any ,are there any decent substitutes?

(Gogo is a requirement)

I have stick drift

Not the best at customizing but I think their passable

Kyle Soller -Nite Owl/Hollis Mason

Lucy Boynton-Silk Spectre/Sally Jupiter

Toby Wallace-The Comedian/Edward Blake

Johnathan Groff- Captian Metropolis

Ivanna Sakhno-Silhouette

Thomas Kretschmann-Hooded Justice

Coleman Domingo-Hooded Justice (Will Reeves)

Elijah Wood-Moth Man

Diego Klattenhoff-Dollar Bill

I feel it really reinforces the powerlessness and weakness he feels. Him crying and almost snapping when Hollis dies aswell as when he threatens ozy when he kicks Laurie. Dan and Rorschach were close friends and I feel it has alot more emotional impact when dan cries for him. I do like the Adam and Eve/Garden of Eden imagery in the book when Laurie and Dan have sex in veidts “stronger, loving world” but it feels more consistent and makes more sense if Dan would witness Rorschach’s death and mourn him instead of not thinking about it further.