My review of Zack Synder’s Watchmen has materialised at the Eye blog. I’ve assumed that most of you are already familiar with the plot (summarised here, detailed here), so I’ve focussed on whether or not a good comic makes for a good film. Feel free to dispute my findings or add musings of your own.

Update: Not sure how long this will remain online, but here’s the opening title sequence.

Now you can dress up like Astro Boy. Or Pikachu. Oh, there’s more. // Armour made of gel. // Self-assembling magnets. // Inside the collider. // Panoramic sunset, La Silla observatory, Chile. (h/t, Coudal) // Composite image of M82. // The Commodore 64. (1988) // Transparent appliances. // Transparent fish with tubular eyes. (h/t, Cronaca) // Apocryphal specimens. // Octopus chandeliers. // Flash drives of note. (h/t, Metrolander) // The MP3-grenade combo. // Robots! // Five moments of cinematic superheroism. // The secret lives of comic store employees. // Imaginary numbers. // 20 grim possible endings for Battlestar Galactica. // To hell with niceness. // Saturday Morning Watchmen. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr John Barry.

A gallery of gulls with a taste for ice-cream. 

Run, children, run!

Busy today, but if you’re planning to visit Berlin you may want to look at this map of places not to park. Due to cars being set on fire. The archives of films, ephemera and interviews may also entertain. Help yourself to snacks and liquor.

Christian Fauer makes images with wax crayons.

Though not in the way you’d imagine.

Via Drawn!