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[veazey21]

OK, so you know how "Watchmen" is coming out on Friday? And how it's based on what is usually agreed to be the best comic book of all time? And how every comic book nerd on the planet has his Ambush Bug boxer shorts in a twist, hoping that it'll be good but secretly worried that it's going to suck like every other adaptation of an Alan Moore book

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[veazey21]

Well, they made an animated version of "Tales of the Black Freighter," but that's because it's a comic book within the Watchmen universe. If you remember the guy at the newsstand with the green sweater and the kid in the horn-rimmed glasses, they're the vehicle through which the comic-within-the-comic is brought into the story. It reflects and parallels what's going on in the actual storyline in an eerily accurate way, and serves to add more depth to the whole thing, but would have been completely lost on most movie-goers. So, they're putting that on a DVD separately because they filmed it and made it.
Also on the DVD will be a video version of "Under the Hood," the first Nite Owl's autobiography, presented (I'm told) like "Behind the Music." It'll also help flesh out a lot of the missing details from the first generation that sort of get left out of the actual action in the movie. Stuff like who Hooded Justice was, why he's so important, and how he and Captain Metropolis were lovers. Which, of course, only made their expulsion of Silhouette even more hypocritical, since they kicked her out for being openly gay herself, which then led to an old enemy murdering both her and her girlfriend (that murder scene in the opening montage).