Watchmen’s Clockwork Origins Span Comics, Lit, Film, Physics
From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons borrowed from a stunning wealth of sources.
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Watchmen Tunes Merge Comic, Cash
The slightly good news is that some of the music that made it into the film, but not the comic, didn’t make it to the soundtrack. The bad news? Some lousy songs made both the film and the soundtrack, but never made the comic at all.
Watchmen Film Straddles Fine Line Between Loyalty, Heresy, Hope
If only it were that simple.
Wonder Woman Plays The Sex Card
Wonder Woman is an ancient goddess with a sexualized back story.
Tearing Down The Century of the Self With And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
So for the band’s latest effort, named after Adam Curtis’ The Century of Self, I went on the blitz for Wired, Metromix and Filter.
New York Times Bites My Watchmen Rhyme, CNN Bites Something Else
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is definitely a visionary comic. But is Watchmen director Zack Snyder a visionary filmmaker, just because he’s adaptating the seminal graphic novel for the […]
The Clone Wars: Most Action-Packed Series on Television
You have what follows below in a nutshell.
Coraline’s Dazzling, Terrifying Stop-Motion Animation
It takes nerve to craft a horror story about children in this day and age.
Did Paul McCartney Ride The Colbert Bump To Coachella?
Coincidence? Let’s weigh the evidence.
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, Television Visionary
Be seeing you.
The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
R.I.P. Ron Asheton, Rock Influential
Shining lights of the world are leaving us at what feels like an exponential rate. It seems like I’ve been covering a death or burial almost every day. Today I […]
First Lady of Star Trek, Memorialized On Earth
Still feeling strange tremors from my grandmother’s passing, especially today. I reported on the burial of Star Trek‘s Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of creator Gene Roddenberry for Wired, which felt weird […]
Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons
When acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons sat down to create epochal comic book series Watchmen with writer Alan Moore, neither had any idea what was to come.
Best Of 2008, The Playlist
What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]
The Clone Wars Reboots Star Wars’ Peripheral Players
I’ve been covering the smoking new iteration of Star Wars known as The Clone Wars for Wired since its first animated episode aired earlier this year. It’s far better than […]
Wired! X-Men Noir Goes Dark, Sells Out
Back on the Wired beat at last, with a heads-up on Marvel Comics’ cool new series soaked in noir. Who’s firing first? The mutants, of course.
R.I.P. Listening Post (For Now)
Well, the economy did not leave my life unscathed, although I have worked hard to keep it that way. Wired decided to shutter its music blog Listening Post, which I […]
Post Up! Best Xmas Tune Ever? Stephen Colbert and Willie Nelson’s Ode to Weed
Click the video at right, if you want to skip my pontification. But those of you who have kept track of my spiels for Wired on Stephen Colbert’s riotous A […]
Pixies + Dali = ?
li news fit to print, but no love for the ears?
No worries. This fun mashup of the Pixies’ “Debaser” with Dali and Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou ought to tide us over until Destino and Banderas’ Dali film hit the screens.
Jesus Forgives The Beatles
It’s nice that you finally got around to forgiving John Lennon for boasting that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, who we admit has a birthday coming up. But you might have wanted to pick a better time than the 40th anniversary of The White Album.
David Lynch Signs Up For The Lime Green Set
David Lynch’s Absurda Studio releases a compilation of his weirdest work.
Best Music of 2008? You Tell Me
from Femi Kuti to Deerhunter to Juana Molina and onward, there’s a lot of best to best.
Post Up! At Last, Loop Returns
The underrated guitar army Loop is coming back into print, after years hidden beneath the afterglow of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and The Jesus and Mary Chain. If you want […]
Rest in Pieces, Gravediggaz
Long before popcorn torture porn owned the mallrats or the Pentagon started contracting packs of robots to hunt down non-cooperative humans, Gravediggaz owned horrorcore.