# Watchmen Motion Comics

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-motion-comics/457172 "2008-07-20T18:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-motion-comics/457172/1 "2008-07-20T18:41:40Z")

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Has anyone seen this? Chapter 1 is free on iTunes, and for its faults, it’s hard to imagine a more faithful adaptation (if you don’t mind the absence of the text bits at the end).

About those faults:

–It strongly resembles those awful “Marvel Super Heroes” animations by Grantray-Lawrence in the 60s (“When Captain America throws his mighty shield…”).

–The word balloons are pretty distracting.

–One actor does all the voices, which is a problem so far for Silk Spectre. Gibbons always drew her a little androgynous to begin with, and this voice characterization makes her seem like a full-on cross dresser.

I can see this process-minus the word balloons and single voice actor–working well for Ditko and Romita Spider-Man comics; less so for Adams or Bolland Batman.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-motion-comics/457172/2 "2008-07-20T19:10:32Z")

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Is it anything like [this early Hulk cartoon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fEVgqoaok) that took stills directly from the comic and added rudimentary transitional animation?

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-motion-comics/457172/3 "2008-07-20T20:43:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]  
Is it anything like [this early Hulk cartoon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fEVgqoaok) that took stills directly from the comic and added rudimentary transitional animation?  
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Yep. That Hulk cartoon was a Grantway-Lawrence production from 1966.