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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Watchmen Back on the Radar

Monday July 21, 2008

With the release of The Dark Knight in movie theaters this past weekend came the trailer for the forthcoming movie version of Watchmen, the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The well-done and well-placed two minute Watchmen trailer shot Watchmen up to the top of Amazon.com's Bestseller list - to the #2 slot as of this writing.

Read more about how Watchmen opened doors for the graphic novel in the literary world in
"Watchmen and the Birth of Respect for the Graphic Novel."

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July 23, 2008 at 5:02 am
(1) Rob says:

Wasn’t Terry Gilliam attached to this at some stage?

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