Watching The Watchmen Watchers 08: Random Pre-Release Links Of Interest

* reviews continue to accrue for the motion picture. The general review profile positives seem to be holding in the early 60s; a few more of the critics you've heard of have provided positive reviews. Roger Ebert's is probably the most positive of the few I've read, and it's safe to say that he's not a comics guy.

* Tom Mason posts a basic Watchmen-related link dump. The comics business news and analysis site provides a summary of basic movie-related news, and notes that the book is still selling at holy crap levels.

* Steven Grant reviews the book and wonders out loud about its legacy.

* Salon provides a nice interview with Alan Moore, mostly by steering clear of the Watchmen movie. They also have an appreciation of Moore's groundbreaking work on the Swamp Thing series.

* Matthew Badham sent in a massive series of links to youtube postings he says is a local interview with writer Alan Moore.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d66SIe75RG0
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9Fr7mWseY
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPdxeLebwZo
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OLSH7O06Y
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72aqEwjYOg
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tsXK5Z29jk
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ha-PtyRlU
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGq-9X3ho7U

Two parts have been removed for rejiggering and eventual re-posting, but those links should get you started. I haven't listened to them myself yet; they could have nothing to do with Watchmen, come to think of it.

* the writer Jeet Heer's confession that he could never really get into Watchmen would be worth it for the Carter Scholz review quotes alone. Why hasn't TCJ re-published this great essay on their site?

* Heer also has a short post up on the frequently discussed giant squid/Reagan link.

* I never understand Bob Andelman's links when they come to me because they're always surrounded by a bunch of code, and I don't follow them myself because of the risk of running into some weird software, but this one might have something to do with Dave Gibbons.

* promoting movies is way different now than it was when Watchmen first came out in comics form.

* two more from numbers guru John Jackson Miller: sales figures for the Charlton heroes from which the Watchmen characters are derived; his best guess as to the original series on-sale dates.

* finally, here's Miller's report on the original series' sales figures, in case you missed it.
 
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