Thanks to my friend Thomas Webb, I became aware last night that iTunes was offering a Watchmen Motion Comic for $1.99 on their store. It is 25 minutes long and is the first chapter of the graphic novel. For the next few months, Warner Bros. will release all of the chapters of Watchmen in this format. If you want, you can go ahead and pay $19.99 for the entire book.
Many of you must be asking yourself, what's a motion comic? Well, essentially, it uses all of the original panels from the Watchmen graphic novel but manipulates it to where there are no longer panels, people and objects move around, and there are voices, sounds, and music. So, basically, it's almost a moving version of the original graphic novel, which is really kind of cool.
I must admit- it's really strange to see Watchmen in motion (even if it is limited motion). Many people are saying that this is basically the equivalent of what watching the film version will be like. It's definitely going to take some getting used to on my part.
If you have never read Watchmen before, this is not the way to get started. This is basically a Watchmen for dummies as it is the same thing as the graphic novel only with motion and sound added. I view it as something to just add to the Watchmen experience. However, despite being very close to the original source, it is nothing like the experience of reading the original graphic novel. Nothing can imitate that experience- not this or the upcoming movie. So, if you haven't read the book yet, this is not your starting point. Go to Barnes and Noble, Borders, or any other book store and buy it immediately. You'll thank me later.
For those of you who are too cheap to shell out the $1.99 for the First Chapter of the motion comic or those who just want to sample it and see what it looks like, I've embedded a YouTube version below (cut into three parts). Check it out- it is pretty cool.
1 comments:
Its weird, but I like it.
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