Forbidden Donut

Hot on the new comic book trend that is sweeping Hollywood is the new trailer for The Watchmen.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

Note: watch the end of the trailer where they zoom in on Rorschach's face. Notice the black blobs move... awesome.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this comic. I will give quick rundown of why it is awesome. First, it is one of the most critically acclaimed comics ever and is put on par with The Dark Knight Returns (the comic that took the happy-go-lucky Batman and made him the BAMF that is portrayed in the recent movies). Second, the story for the comic is written by the same guy who wrote the story for V for Vendetta. If that isn't enough to get you excited (aroused... maybe?), The director is the same guy who directed 300 (now?).

The comic takes place in an alternate 1985. In this alternate universe, a handful of people were inspired to wear masks and stop crime. This got public support, so the government allowed it. Come 1977, the government revoked the right of the vigilante. All the masks (slang used to describe the mask wearing heroes) stopped save two who worked for the government and one who isn't sane and is quite awesome. So in 1985, one of these heroes, the Comedian, is murdered. The one rogue vigilante left starts questioning what happened and finds something that doesn't seem right. This leads to the major plot line.

The story is pretty good in and of itself. The most awesome part of this comic is seeing how crazy things are in the superhero world. One of the enlightening things about this comic is seeing how insane these heroes are. It mentions it in the comic book that people who would don masks and costumes would be of extreme ideals and not normal at all. Why would these extremists get along? Well, they don't most of the time. As a matter of fact, there are a number of things that happen that are so... pure. There are affairs. There is a rape. There is murdering of a soon-to-be baby's momma. There is a plot to kill thousands of people (to save the world, of course). There is hooker-hate. In general, it simply proves that these people are very imperfect.

The questions that this comic wasn't meant to bring up is: Who are we trusting to protect us? Who should we trust to protect us? and Why should they be trusted?

I'm excited for this movie. Almost as excited as I was while waiting for The Dark Knight.