Watchmen’s Keene Act and Black Freighter PSAs
How the hell did the Watchmen team have so much goddamn time on their hands to make all this supplementary material? It’s insane; clearly, the whole Fox lawsuit didn’t cause them to rest on their laurels even with the risk of all their work being for naught. Anyways, this new video — a ’70s PSA from the government about the Keene Act and how vigilantes are bad juju– isn’t their best, but it does have some incredibly bad, ’70s-style animation, which is fun.
And there isn’t really a Black Freighter PSA — just some screenshots from the cartoon — but there totally should be. For instance, don’t make a raft of corpses:
Or otherwise, you tend to go batshit crazy.
And that’s one to grow on! There are a couple more shots over at Joblo — thanks to Kevin and Chris for the tips.
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.