{"id":26101,"date":"2012-02-06T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/watching-the-watchmen.html"},"modified":"2012-02-06T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:09:01","slug":"watching-the-watchmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/watching-the-watchmen.html","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the best predictions about how the whole &quot;Watchmen&quot; prequel comics will turn out.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftytempletonart.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fthe-real-before-watchmen.jpg%3Fw%3D500' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tytempletonart.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/04\/who-watches-the-bun-toons-yay\/'>Who Watches the Bun Toons!\u00a0YAY!<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you&#39;ve been on the internet in the last few days, you know that fandom collected has their matching Underoos in a bunch over DC&#39;s announcement that they are, in fact, FINALLY doing the WATCHMEN &#8230;&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the best predictions about how the whole &quot;Watchmen&quot; prequel comics will turn out. #ddtb Embedded Link Who Watches the Bun Toons!\u00a0YAY! If you&#39;ve been on the internet in the last few days, you know that fandom collected has their matching Underoos in a bunch over DC&#39;s announcement that they are, in fact, FINALLY doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/watching-the-watchmen.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watching the Watchmen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/joe-straczynski-on-the-watchmen-prequels.html","url_meta":{"origin":26101,"position":0},"title":"Joe Straczynski on the Watchmen prequels","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Feb-12 8:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"JMS summarizes his answers to the various questions\/objections raised by folks about the propriety (artistic or legal) off his being involved in the prequel comics to Alan Moore's Watchmen saga. #ddtb Embedded Link Rather than answer... | Facebook Fans of J. 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