Friday, January 2, 2009

Watchmen in Thirty Seconds

The Invincible Super-Blog's anniversary has rolled around again and once more he has invited any comic fan with no shame to quickly recap a comic story. Last year I did the entire history of the DC Universe. This year I thought I would go for it: the sacred cow of comic books, Watchmen.

And why shouldn't I? Works considered to be classic literature are far from immune to parody (Shakespearean parodies alone could keep an infinite number of monkeys tied up for a bit) and Watchmen is one of two comics that fall directly under my mission of reading all of the award winning fantasy and SF.

Of course Chris over at The Invincible Super-Blog beat me to it.

Still I think there's enough room in this world for two people having a bit of fun with Watchmen.

(Click on the pictures to make them nice and readable...)


7 comments:

googum said...

Sod. I still have to buy crayons, and the competition is looking tough this year...

Great stuff. Somehow, I've owned that trade like three times, yet keep losing it. Currently, I'm waiting to see a bunch turned in as used, and/or marked down, as the movie goes.

Brad Curran said...

This was funny and insightful and all, but your Bubastis was particularly awesome. Also, my word verification is edbreer. Just felt like sharing that (never got someone's name before).

Leopold said...

Pure genius. Especially Dr. Manhattan.

Pj Perez said...

Good stuff. You have provided worthy competition. :)

Derek said...

Ahahahahahaha!

God, I love the quotes so much.

And am I mistaken, or is that Ultros?

Das Übernerd said...

Thank you for the compliments everyone.

googum, I'm on my fourth copy including the original comics and I currently have upgraded to the Absolute Edition.

Ultros is simply coincidental unless you think it's brilliant in which case it is a reference and not the result of my deciding purple was the appropriate color for a telepathic, exploding, teleporting squid.

Anonymous said...

"It was exactly how Alexander the Great conquered Egypt" is going to be my new tagline for everything I do from now on.

Tim C