I don’t know exactly what it says about either the comics industry or the marketing department at Warner Bros that the biggest story out of this year’s San Diego Comic Con — the biggest nerd convention in the world, which is supposed to be the launching point for all the comic industry’s (and much of Hollywood’s) biggest fan-tastic new newsy news — was Watchmen, an already well-known, always-in-print, 20-year-old graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. To put it into some sort of context, this is kind of like having a sudden run on aspirin in a pharmacy, but hey, here we are.
-here’s PW talking about it
-CBR claims it was the con’s “buzz book”
-even the NY Times had something to say
-an interview with Alan Moore in Entertainment Weekly that randomly enough quotes Pop Will Eat Itself…
That said, this is easily one of the greatest graphic novels were talking about here, and, I would argue, one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. So, the more exposure the better.
