The only way this merchandise would be even halfway acceptable would be if it were put out by the Veidt Corporation.

Still, the thought of kids going to school with Nite-Owl & Rorshach lunchboxes amuses me no end...

Maybe he is chanting while making the pipe bombs.

And they had to make all this merc to pay off Fox so the movie might come out at some time.

The "Who Watches the Watchmen" flask is very much needed after looking at all this crap. It looks like fan-made junk that you'd see on Etsy. Ugh.

Anyone want to take the over-under on when Alan Moore's head will exploed?

Good call, Arsenal. They are going to sell this license to anybody they can in order to get the Fox-monkey off their back. They were already concerned about running time eating into the number of screenings. Any concern they had for the brand's integrity is now out the window.

And if producing more of this crap will speed up the process then I say go for it - I'm sick already of hearing how precious Alan Moore thinks he can be with his "art" and how many running jokes we can make about his proposed distress. The guy acepted paychecks for writing this stuff - he didn't work for nothing but now he spends the rest of his life bitching about what an unfair, greedy,corporate world we live in....well grow the fuck up and join the rest of us poor bastards that don't get a choice. You get paid to be a writer you lucky Sombitich!

And happy new fucking year too....

Alan Moore has deprived me of Watchman merchandise for far, far, far too long. If I were Dave Gibbons I would have shived him years ago.

I dunno, the Manhattan logo cap looks pretty dope. But none of this stuff compares to the Bearbrick-style things you already posted (or am I making that up?).

And it seems to me "shived" should have two V's. Shivved. Shived. Shivved. Hmmm. Discuss.

I vote for "shivved," and I want that black and yellow beanie. It will warm my ears with the glow of Moore's rage. mmm.

I would be mad if I hadn't been expecting this sort of thing from the beginning. I usually don't want to brag, but in this case I seriously called it. This is what happens when you make a movie. It becomes an excuse for crappy merchandise. As soon as Zack Snyder started turning Watchmen into his own little travesty, this sort of shit came bubbling up to the surface.

a lunch box is by far the least offensive piece of merch on there. i do agree though that dr Manhattan was probably the worst choice to put on a lunchbox besides the retired silk spectre.

the flask makes me fear the future.

How exactly has Moore deprived people of merchandise? Watchmen crap has been on the market for almost a quarter of a centruy now. The only loss came when DC Direct willingly redacted three hideously ugly 15th anniversary figures.

Moore's beef with DC stems from a contractual agreement that at a future point, the rights for the material would rever to him, which due to a loophole, never quite happened. In response, he chose never to work for them again, which seems like a reasonable personal reaction. Much like the McFarlane v. Gaiman lawsuit, people love talking about this without all that bothersome research or comprehension getting in the way.

I'm routinely surprised by the increasing animosity directed towards Moore, considering that he only WROTE the material that everyone is so obsessed with. He's a pretentious blowhard, and some of his books are overrated. Okay. I still tend to come down on his side instead of that of Warner/DC/Marvel/The Wachowskis/whoever. So he's full of himself. If I wrote, say, From Hell, I think I'd have a bit of an ego too.

Having said as much, I agree on at least one point... can we please have a moratorium on the "Alan Moore is so enraged he's going to [fill in the blank]" jokes? They were funny once, about a hundred years ago, when they first announced the insane Final Fight style Watchmen video game. They're starting to wear a little thin now, especially since, in reality, his only response has been to wash his hands of this nonsense and move on. After From Hell, LXG, and V for Vendetta, I'm not sure I blame him if he'd rather not see any more of his books filmed.

You do realise what's even funnier is that's the scene where he's just tried to pleasure Laurie with multiple versions of himself?

"What's in the lunchbox Timmy"

"Mummy says it's a 'roast"