Watchmen Motion Comic Review: The Future Of Comic Books
Posted at 11:40 pm | Filed Under Entertainment
I can’t tell a lie. It felt strange putting the twenty or so dollars down to essentially watch a Flash animation. The guy behind the counter asked “What is that?†and I answered him as best I could: “It’s a Flash animation of The Watchmenâ€. I had loaded it onto my iPhone the night before. The whole process took about a minute and a half.
“Why don’t you just go and see the movie?†he said. I didn’t really have an answer. Because I heard the movie wasn’t that good, I guess.
You see, I had a flight from Los Angeles to New York the next day – the perfect time to spend roughly 6 hours with this brand new thing. It consisted of twelve half hour episodes, and I’d never read the original comic; maybe glanced at the plot line on the Internet once before I left for the airport, I started watching as we took off from LAX and when the wheels hit the tarmac I was hooked: this is the future of comic books.
Let me elaborate: this is no ordinary Flash animation. There’s a full score – an AMAZING score – and narration that blows most any audio book out of the water. The animation is taken directly from the original comic books and every frame is meticulously reproduced; the animation, while stiff in a few places, matches the old school feel so much more than I thought it would.