Ever since the first time I read Watchmen, I’ve thought it would be neat to have an action figure of Rorschach to decorate my shelf or computer desk with.
It’s taken twenty years, but today I finally get my wish…
Found it at Books A Million in Greensboro while out on some business this morning.
Now all we need is for someone to make a big plush Rorschach doll that goes “Hurm” when you pull the string 😛...
EXTREMELY encouraging word from the Watchmen panel at New York Comic Con yesterday. The thousands in attendance were treated to the first 18 minutes from the movie, which shows the fight between Edward Blake and his assailant, and then a montage of the Watchmen world’s history playing out to Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are-A Changin'”, followed by Rorschach’s initial investigation of the murder.
And then, the audience at New York Comic Con got to behold something that I know for darn near certain that every Watchmen fan has been hoping and praying would make it into the movie…
Two words: “Prison Cafeteria”.
And yes: Rorschach says it. We are finally going to get to hear him say the line, on the big screen.
I’ve a lot to do tomorrow, but I plan on spending a little time seeing if there’s a theater in Greensboro that’s gonna have a midnight ...
Exactly one month from today we’ll finally get to see the Watchmen movie. And I think it’s safe to say: the biggest anticipation of the past twenty years has been for how well Rorschach will translate to the big screen. Empire has the exclusive premiere of this latest video journal, which focuses on Rorschach’s background and that very neat mask that he wears.
And if you’ve read the book, perhaps it will interest you to know that this clip has a fleeting glimpse of our favorite antihero in a certain pose wielding a meat cleaver…
Yet another entry for the “Things We Don’t Really Need But Are Lusting For Badly” file…
For $295, you can pre-order the Rorschach Grappling Gun and Mask Prop Replica Set from the movie version of Watchmen. This thing is scheduled to be released on February 25th, 2009: just in time to have the mask ready to wear for Watchmen‘s release on March 6th! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) the grappling gun is permanently attached to the base (and notice that both are adorned with Rorschach’s symbol). Also unfortunately, the “ink blot” on the mask does not seem capable of changing shape… but as soon as real fabric can be made with heat and pressure-sensitive viscous fluids sandwiched between layers of latex, that lil’ feature will no doubt come to market 😛...
It’s probably gonna be the biggest geek story of the week and Ain’t It Cool News is verifying it this morning: 1 minute and 52 seconds into this extended trailer for 300, the following image appears VERY briefly (this pic is from a cap I took and it took a bit to nail it down)…
After all these years of saying it couldn’t be done… and even that it shouldn’t be done…
I guess nothing is impossible: there really is going to be a Watchmen movie. There’s the proof staring right back at us: Rorschach. In the flesh. Looking exactly as he does in the graphic novel. Not only that but click-on this high-res still (which also came from Ain’t It Cool News)…
Rorschach is holding the Comedian’s blood-stained smiley-face button, just as he’s depicted doing in the first few pages of Watchmen.
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