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Episode: 347
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Title: HPR0347: Watchmen: the motion comic
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0347/hpr0347.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 16:58:54
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Hello and welcome to Hacker Public Radio, this is Dave again, and in today's episode
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of Hacker Public Radio I want to do a movie review, but I don't know if you would call
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this a movie or not.
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The listeners of Hacker Public Radio are probably familiar with the graphic novel Watchmen,
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I have probably seen the Motion Picture Watchmen that came out March 6th, I think, and may
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have even heard me review the graphic novel and the movie in past episodes of my own podcast.
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Today I want to talk about something I've seen online on the DC Comics website, but I've
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never watched one of these, and it is a motion comic.
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When I was in Walmart a couple of weeks ago, and I saw for $13.99, the complete motion
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comic of Watchmen, it's 12 episodes and the front of the DVD cover says the complete
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motion comic, 12 episodes, the graphic novel comes to life, page by page, watchmen for
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mature audiences.
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The back of the DVD box says the entire Watchmen graphic novel comes to life, and the little
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burb on the back says, watched any great books lately.
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Now you can, the most celebrated graphic novel of all time that broke the conventional
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mold, continues to break new ground, Watchmen co-creator and illustrator Dave Gibbons
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oversees the digital version of the graphic novel that adds limited motion, voice and sound
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to the book strikingly drawn panels.
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All 12 chapters of the story are here over five hours spanning everything from the mysterious
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demise of the comedian to the Chris Cross destinies of loosely allied superheroes to their
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faithful impact on the world, being the know be watching with Watchmen the complete motion
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comic.
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It's five and a half hours long, it's two DVDs, and it is great.
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It is just like watching a book, it's like watching the graphic novel.
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I guess the added bonus of, with limits, I don't know how they do this, let me start there
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I guess.
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They've taken the original artwork from the book, I mean it is the book, frame by frame
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more or less, they've added narration or a person reading all the words, they've added
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music, and they've added limited motion.
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The camera will zoom in to a frame, you don't see the frame per se, but each panel zoomed
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in to or zoomed out off, so there's camera motion that way, inside the frames there is motion,
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you will see hands move, chains on doors move, there is limited motion added, I have no idea
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how they do this, but they do a really good job.
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It adds a dimension to the graphic novel, and I've read Watchmen probably four times in
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watching the Watchmen the motion comic, things are brought out that you don't, that I didn't
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get reading the book, some of the continuity between seemingly non-continuous scenes are
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brought out, that I didn't notice in reading the book four times, and this is, in my opinion,
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better than the motion picture, it's not the entire book, they do leave out all the
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under the hood stuff, but Tales of the Bike Frater is included, not the animated Tales
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of the Bike Frater to survey the one DVD now, but the Tales of the Bike Frater is shown
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in the book, this is the book with limited motion, music, and narration, sound effects,
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that kind of thing, it is, it's amazing, if you've not read the Watchmen, or don't feel
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like watching the Watchmen, you can, excuse me, if don't feel like reading the Watchmen,
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I recommend that you do anyway, you can pick up the DVD for $13.99, and it's 325 minutes,
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and it is well worth the watch, it is not rated, it contains mature content, some viewers
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may find, may not find so, it won't interpret for viewers younger than 17, well worth it,
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pick it up, I think you'll enjoy it, thanks for listening.
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Thank you for listening to Half the Public Radio, HPR is sponsored by Pharaoh.net,
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so head on over to C-A-R-O-O dot N-E-T for all of us in the U.S.
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Thank you for listening to Half the Public Radio, HPR is sponsored by Pharaoh.
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