is Watchmen not that well-known?

[Katsuro]

A word of caution to anyone who lends WATCHMEN to a friend.

You're likely going to need to purchase another copy.

It'd probably make sense to buy a second anyways. One for yourself, another to lend out. My copy's with a coworker right now. I dont even know if he's started reading it yet.

 

[Batgort]

I've been a big fan of comics for a long time, and mainly D.C (but also enjoy Ironman, hawk-eye and a handful of other marvels) and some Wildstorms comics, and have tons and tons of Batman, Superman, Justice League, 52, Green Lantern, and other graphic novels. But I didn't hear of Watchmen until SHH created the forum for it. Same is true for Wanted.

 

[Quinzel]

yeah..I think it might be cool if they start the virals when the first Night Owl's book comes out...because I have a feeling a lot of the exerpts from the book will be left out of the movie...I have no source on that..just a gut feeling most if not all will be cut for time

Oh yeah most likely.

I'm sure if this one does well enough, they'll might make a follow up for the things they had to leave out for time.

Idk though, this seems like a one of a kind movie. They probably won't.

 

[BubbaGump]

A lot of people on the Hype haven't even picked up the book.

No one (and I mean the general public) knows about Watchmen. It will, and IS changing, but before the trailer: Watchmen=

 

[BubbaGump]

Maus pwns.

 

[StorminNorman]

It'd probably make sense to buy a second anyways. One for yourself, another to lend out. My copy's with a coworker right now. I dont even know if he's started reading it yet.

I haven't seen my copy in about five months - it has been in constant circulation.

I am saving up to buy the ABSOLUTE edition.

 

[Nepenthes]

I can't believe I'm gonna spend $150 on a bloody comic book. I let that slip to a friend of mine, she looked at me like I had two heads and then assumed I was joking. I didn't correct her.


I was at the comic shop last Thursday (which is our payday/ late night shopping day) and the crowds in there were like nothing I've ever seen before. Mostly the non comic reader type. Much of it was Batman related of course but I also saw a huge stack of new Watchmen books, three people flipping through them, two other people buying them (I was in there 15 minutes), AND then a totally different person reading Watchmen on the ferry I take home! I couldn't believe it. It was quite surreal. I actually felt like yelling at the guy on the ferry.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I can't convince my friends to read it. They love the trailer and I tell them about the amazing graphic novel and they just don't seem interested.
Tis Tis...

Maybe they're illiterate but to embarrassed to tell you

 

[Darknightnomis]

I don't know what theatre u were at, but at the midnight showing I went to for TDK, there was a huge appaluse after the Watchmen trailer and teh place was packed.

So I'd assume everyone there knew what it was about.

 

[Simon Phoenix]

nobody clapped when I went...but I heard a lot of "I want to see that" being whispered

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

There were a few people who wooed and clapped, me included, but most people didn't know what to make of it.

 

[ManofmyWord]

I Went to the Midnight Showing of TDK with about 6 or 7 people and I was the only one there who had ever heard of Watchmen. My Friends where really interested in the trailer though, and after the movie inbetween talking about TDK one of them asked me, so I explained it to her, then more and more people kinda came up. I felt like I was preaching watchmen. Lol.

 

[Dark Victory]

You average comic reader definitley has heard of it if not read it. Just about every person who doesn't read comics has never heard of it. All my friends who aren't comic fans at all have never heard of Watchmen until they saw the trailer. Hopefully the movie will be as good as the graphic novel and get a lot more people to read it(26 have been sold at my comic book store since the trailer was released with TDKt.

 

[WithinPurgatory]

I had to tell my boyfriend to read Watchmen. That was one of the funniest moments in being raised to love comics - telling a 23 year old boy about Watchmen and watching his face light up like it was Christmas when he was handed the book.

 

[Evil Twin]

Lots of people have read Watchmen. Millions in fact. It's part of College courses, it's mentioned all the time as an influence (Lost has borrowed the structure), it routinely shows up on critics lists as a seminal graphic novel, and it's been in print and selling for 20+ years. More people have read Watchmen than have read Armor Wars, for example.

What it isn't is a mainstream success that has transcended it's niche. It's not Harry Potter or much of the work of Stephen King, for example. Quick, how many Pulitzer Prize winning novels of the last 20 years can you name? I'll spot this crowd Kavalier and Clay.

 

[DieSmiling]

One of my friends commented that it looked cool, the rest of them were indifferent (or at least didn't say anything) and none of them had heard of it. I talked it up.

 

[Bads316]

A girl at work just noticed my Watchmen desktop and asked 'whats Watchmen?' -
I had no idea how to answer without getting a pen and paper out.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

A girl at work just noticed my Watchmen desktop and asked 'whats Watchmen?' -
I had no idea how to answer without getting a pen and paper out.

Here's what I'd do, give her a funny look, then shake my head at her.

 

[Smokeymcpot]

When i had went to see the Dark Knight at Midnight a coupe of my friends asked what was Watchmen. Only a couple of other people i heard saying its watchmen