The Watchmen Online Comic

So this is where I've been for the last month holed up at home working on. It's not this particular episode, but Chapter 09 and part of Chapter 8 which will further down the pipeline. The coolest part about it, is that I finally accomplished a long intended goal of working on an animated feature.

15 years and a badass Mac G5 Tower computer, with the program After Effects, I can finally give Ralph Bakshi a run for his money.

Ironically I got the paperback edition of The Watchmen 20 years ago when I was a Senior in HS. I had various parts of the 12 part Maxi series (mini series in comics were 4-6 issues) but since it was a Direct Sales book it was hard to find at my corner newsstand, and my initial response was that I was reading something more substantial that your average comic book. (I still refer to them as comics because I still feel they're counter culture material)

This was the best part of "The Watchmen" and the worst; because it lifted the Comic genre into a bigger plateau. It created the label such as "Graphic Novel" and for me it wasn't a 50/50 symbiotic split between artist and writer, it became more 25/75 and flooded the market with pretentious wanna bees like "Maus" "Sandman" and from then on all superheroes had "real" problems.

Plots became more complex and the price went from 60 cents in 1989 to $4.00 in 2008.... Long gone where the Hostess Twinkie ads, and the box of 1,000 soldiers I could buy for $3.00.

Whoever said you can never go back, wasn't completely right, you can take parts of it and with some help, piece it together for the future.

Or as Rorschach would say, "Hurrrmmmmmm."