Watchmen Costumes At Comic Com

The 2011 Emerald Comic Con took place in Seattle the weekend of March 5^th to the 7^th. Many people were out to see all the different comics, artwork, actors, and of course costumes. Saturday was the big day to come and see all the costumes. The Watchmen superhero’s were all popular characters to dress up as.

 The best costume that I saw that day hands down goes to Rorschach, one person when to the lengths of having a mask that’s inkblots changed when he breathed. All the Rorschach’s were very much in character, I found one writing in his journal while leaning  against a wall.

The second best costume goes to the Comedian. With cigar, grenades,  smiley face pin, and all. I was surprised when I shouted out “Hey Comedian” that he actually turned around a striked quite a cocky pose.

The third best costume goes to the Silk Spectre, with thigh high stockings and short yellow shorts, this girl really looked like the Silk Spectre.



By: Jena Horvath

Watchmen Movie Review

Watchmen (2009)

One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Novels of All Time has been made into a motion picture movie. Watchmen, a 12 Issue Compilation Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, takes its unique storyline and impeccable illustrations and is turned into an action packed movie.

Taking place in New York City, the time period is set during the Cold War, where Richard Nixon is still president of the United States. The plot revolves around  the protagonist of the movie, Rorschach investigating the murder of Edward Blake. He then finds out that Blake was the Comedian and that someone might be trying to eliminate all the masked adventurers.  Through a series of events, the film’s antagonist , Adrian Veidt AKA "Ozymandias" and uncover his plans to help end the Cold War, but it proves to involve a series of conspiracies and destruction against the Watchmen.

This movie contains many different elements, but one thing is for sure, it is action packed.  Body parts are dismantled, blood spurts and intense fight scenes, this movie is not afraid of violence and trying to do justice to the novel.  Be warned that there is a brutal rape scene that takes place, so it not for the very young or faint of heart.  The movie also contains a touch of romance between the Watchmen characters.

This is a highly anticipated movie that had a high demand to be made after the success and popularity of its novel version. Action packed and a plot twisted plot that makes you think, Watchmen is sure to be a reminiscent of its past novel popularity.

By: Perry Phetsadakone

Devastation in New York, 3 Million Killed

November 3, 1985. Most of New York City has been devastated. Many are blaming Dr. Manhattan for the destruction, because he hides away on Mars. According to reports, the late Rorschach has left behind a journal telling the truth behind this devastation. In fact Ozymandias’ is behind the killings, Rorschach’s journal claims that Ozymandias had created a scheme to destroy millions of people in order to save billions for the “greater good”. Rorschach and Nite Owl’s attempts to stop Ozymandias was in vain when they found out they were too late.

3 Million were killed instantly due to Ozymandias’ teleported “alien”. Rorschach has been reported dead and the rest of the Watchmen have again gone into hiding. Only time will tell if this moment of peace will be short lived.

By: Alex Poulos

The Hero Behind the Mask

Ozymandias

Abilities:

• World’s Smartest Man
• Olympic Level Acrobat
• Can catch a shooting bullet

Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias, is known as the “Smartest Man in the World”. The first of the Watchmen hero’s to retire from crime-fighting, before the Keene Act of 1977. He went public with his identity and used his fame to start an enterprise.

Veidt was born into a rich family. As a teenager he was greatly inspired by Alexander the Great and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, which he based his superhero identity on. When he inherited a fortune he gave it all away so that he could truly succeed from nothing.

Veidt came-out of retirement when he realized that masked vigilante could not deal with the world’s evil alone. He took it upon himself to “fix” this problem, and concocted a plan to “save the world from itself”. He believed that killing millions of innocent people would distract the rest of the world from its potential WWIII and concentrate more on living together in peace. This forces Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Jon to question his plan, and fight against him to save humanity.

By: Yasmine Escudero

Advice-off, a battle of perception fought to the death, between Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach!

Two heroes ready and willing to solve your toughest dilemmas, whose opinions will you value most?

Tom in Allendale writes:

Hi guys, I am a big fan read your work, I read you guys every week but now I need your help. My wife left me for my new boss, I just turned 45, my pet chinchillas just died and I just got my walking papers from my job because I am getting called back to active duty for Afghanistan after 15 years out of the National Guard, which by the way I signed up for to get a good job and pay for the wedding to my EX. I don’t know what to do; it doesn’t seem like life is worth living!

Please help,

Tom

“Sure glad I’m not Tom”.

Looks like you got some hard choices there Tommy boy, but then the whole world is crumblin down around ya, and all you can do is whine about some pet rats, a crappy job and dirty ex-wife. Can’t you see the end is nigh man, its coming for us all buddy boy. You gotta ask yourself if you’re the kind of quivering little girl that shirks his responsibility because he had a few bad breaks, or if you’re a real Guardsmen and you own up to your life and go get some commie-ass!

But hey, that’s just one man’s opinion, feel free to toddle off and put us out of your misery!

Yours truly,

Rorschach

Hello Thomas,

What my counterpart (in the most distinctive ways) fails to comprehend is that your future is already completed. Your past, present, and future selves are colliding mercilessly into and out of each other. You have no decision to make; it has already been made and unmade in the same instant. Was it my fault for leaving that watch in the atomic chamber? Or perhaps the obese man who broke it is to blame; better yet my father is to blame for the destruction of Japan and the entire nuclear destruction of millions because he couldn’t have a watchmaker for a son. But I digress; in the end you are a watch without a maker, you can only tune yourself.

Best regards, sorry you decided to make the wrong choice next week though, but because the universe will not even notice. In my opinion the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

Dr. Manhattan

Adrian from Anytown writes:

What if you know that you have to do something in order to save the world, but in doing so you irritate some people of no particular consequence, possibly some people might get hurt or dead, but the world as a whole would be better off, of that you’re sure? Any suggestion on how to go about completing this plan in secrecy from say, nosey wana-be detective types or an all knowing being?

Not waiting for your response,

Adrian

Greetings Adrian,

I too have experience in the dilemmas of the greater good. Whether it was the completion of my nuclear physics work, or personally ending the Vietnam conflict, each was a burdensome chore. Although sometimes our actions can be burdensome, I certainly understand the inevitability of extreme actions to solve touch conflicts; take it from me, I built a perfect structure out of glass on Mars just to get away from it all. If you wish to conceal your actions from the future, I suggest an electromagnetic pulse, possibly from the detonation of warheads; that could cause a significant static blinding the future. In the end, small sacrifices must be made for the good of the whole, which is the nature of human nature as I have come to understand it.

Best of luck, warmest regards, and please let me know if I can be of further assistance to your plan,

Dr. Manhattan

What a bunch a garbage!

The two of you ought to work together on your little psycho-sinister plot to “save” the world. After reading yours’ and Dr. Cold-as-Ice’s letters, I am convinced more now than ever that the end is certainly nigh! Look, you’re talking about the destruction of some to save the whole, this kinda thinkin is what got those crazy Nazi’s in trouble. They blamed a few in order to “save” themselves. I dedicated my adult life to punishing the wicked and really saving humanity from itself, you just want to cheat the whole process, wipe some people out so the rest might learn some sorta lesson. This is just nonsense, punish a few innocent so the guilty get the hint huh??? Don’t think SO, sport! Count me against your wreckage. Coming to stop your destruction. Nothing else to be said. Action now, consequences damned. Better let someone know I’m on it.
-Rorschach

By: David Eklund

Graphic Comic Strip

Busiek, Kurt. Marvels. 1994. Four Issue Comic Compilation.

By: Perry Phetsadakone 

Advice-off, a battle of perception fought to the death, between Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach!

Two heroes ready and willing to solve your toughest dilemmas, whose opinions will you value most?

Sandy from Greensboro writes:

I am trying hard to relate to my husband on a spiritual and intimate level, but every time I try to connect, I feel like his mind is elsewhere. What should I do, is my marriage even worth saving?

Greetings and salutations Sandy,

First off let me explain the complexities of multitasking in an ever increasingly stressful world for your kind. You may think that your husband is not really there for you, I have some experience of my own in this area. I cannot comprehend why Laurie Juspeczyk did not feel more loved when I multiplied myself to be with her and continue working at the same time. In any event it simply appears as though you are taking his lack of interest far too personally, as humans often do. There is no need to change anything you are married and legally bound together, what more is there?

Sincerely Dr. Manhattan

Heya Sandy,

What Dr. fell-no-good over there writes is as logical as he is, it’s also as cold and dispassionate as he is too. My advice, find out what really going on, if your husbands’ not inta ya, than he’s definitely inta someone else. Get yourself a good private dick to get a workup for ya; you know follow your hubby around a bit find out where his mind and the rest of him are really focused. That’s what I say but hey, it’s your life sister.

Yours,

Rorschach

By: David Eklund-Grayum