Watchmen Wants to Get Back on Our Good Sides
When me last left the Watchmen, we were punished by a few seemingly poorly acted scenes, and the worst example of viral marketing spiraling out of control and into the gaping maw of Satan we had ever seen. It was making us bitter. Well, it was making me bitter, and kind of worried, because I’d like Watchmen to be good, and I think nerds have a lot of future entertainment possibilities riding on its success.
So I’m happy to share a new Watchmen clip, courtesy of io9, which seems to be just fine. And since it’s all Rorschach and the narration in his head, which is often tricky to pull off, I’m going to say at the very least we’re back on an even keel here. Hopefully, this will be the last we talk of it until the movie comes out next week… although I sincerely doubt it.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.