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I just saw the new hardcover edition of Watchmen on Forbidden Planet and commented that I didn’t think much of the artwork: the expression on Sally’s Laurie’s face, nippleless Jon, assymetrical Rorschach and Veidt with a mullet. Then I looked again and noticed something:

WHERE’S THE COMEDIAN’S SMILEY BADGE???

It’s only the most important motif of the book!
Was this artwork a rush job? It is apparently a new cover by Gibbons, but I wonder if he did the pencils and then passed it on for inking. How could Gibbons forget the smiley?

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I went to town as Dr. Manhattan last night. Only one person actually said, “oh, there’s Dr. Manhattan”. I thought loads of people would have got it at this stage with the movie coming out next year. One girl on the street said “oh, wait, you’re that guy from the Watch thingy”. Other guesses were The Mask, Stargate(!) and The Grinch (I don’t even know where to start with that one).
I was going to go naked and paint myself from top to toe in blue, but the excessive shaving needed put me off so I decided I’d wear the suit in the end. I ended up sitting beside the only Smurfette in Neachtains too. Oh the blue irony. I saw 3 Jesuses (is that the plural of Jesus?) and a very attractive glass of Guinness, but no other Watchmen.

I’d have loved to get contacts to go with it. Maybe next year. Although maybe next year I’ll be Rorchach.

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I somehow missed this interview with Alan Moore on Radio 1 from the 3 July. Oh yes, it’s because I don’t listen to it. Eoin Sweeney did a good job considering who he was talking to, by which I mean the man’s reputation would make jelly of most knees, but as you’ll hear he comes across as a very affable person. I can’t wait for The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.

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I see I’ve joined some illustrious names on the Irish Comics Wiki. I wonder if I actually count as I contribute a single panel cartoon to the Connacht Tribune each week, rather than contributing to a comic per se. Maybe if I throw some stuff Bob Byrne’s way for the next issue of the Shiznit…

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Via Boing Boing is Evan Shaner’s What if Charles M Schulz created the Watchmen?

Look at Snoopy/Rorschach. Classic!

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