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Hahahaha! awesome.

Who are the Viet Kong

Kids

always listening to there Toto and Ben Folds Five

HA!

WOW! Gold on practically every panel.

Very funny!!!

And looking forward for March 6th!!!

Greetings from Brazil!!!

That was awesome.
And it seems that some kids just can't handle a well told depressing story. Pansy. XD

I just adore that last screen...

Brilliant!

Love the last panel, it kinda reminds me of how Suda 51 might have approached making a Watchmen game. It's safe to say this would still be a better game than the shovelware garbage that's currently being made for the Wii.

Has it even had a noteworthy "game" since Wii Sports came out? Outside of Mad World, I can't even think of anything interesting being announced for at least a year.

That was excellent.

Wow, by far the best strip yet.

This was really good. The last panel made me laugh out loud.

Hahahah That was indeed awesome, it was an easy joke, but it had me laughing a good deal. Great Comics Critics this time!

Probably the best one yet.

Good job. Very good job.

Nice. The only thing missing was Alan Moore laughing...

My favorite one yet. Great work.

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Very funny.

I'm sure Gibbons must be chuckling and Morre fuming.

Absolutely hilarious

"You have to convince Dr. Manhattan that humanity is worth saving! Jiggle the WIImote!"

Awesome!

That was brilliant.

I have to echo the sentiments of my peers, awesome strip.

Ditto! Absolutely tremendous!

Frickin' hilarious. Best one yet.

Like the instruction booklet text, Sean.

You should Michael, you wrote it!

And Funky also gets credit for inspiring the "sexual energy meter".

Brilliant. Purely brilliant.

Fantastic last panel! I'm starting to love this strip.

And Funky also gets credit for inspiring the “sexual energy meter”.

Whoo-Hoo!

I'm his muse!

Superb in a way that can only be accurately be described as 'supoib'.

Dave, you mentioned Suda51 and then ask if there's been a good Wii game since Wii Sports? Have you not played No More Heroes? Yeesh.

Also, hilarious strip.

Fantastic work.

I hope that they don't make some generic FPS out of the movie. It's probably to much to hope for.

>>I hope that they don’t make some generic FPS out of the movie. It’s probably to much to hope for.

Nope they made this:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20033

Awesome, best strip yet.

Bwahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha!!!

Awesome!!!! You guys seriously rock!

Good Job

[...] Watchmen The Game Have I mentioned recently how much I’m looking forward to Watchmen: The Movie? On the other hand, I am not looking forward to Watchmen: The Game. [...]

>> Nope they made this: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20033

I guess that's not too bad. I mean it could be a lot worse. Kind of like the movie itself (or to be more accurate what I've seen and heard about the movie).

That was awesome, in every single panel. Best top to bottom strip yet. I'd heard a WATCHMEN game was being done as a tie-in to the movie, but couldn't put my finger on why it sounded wrong. this hit every single target.

Great job, Sean and Brandon!

Probably extermely funny if you know anything about games. Which I don't -- never have devoted a single second to playing. Oh, well.

Probably extermely funny if you know anything about games. Which I don’t — never have devoted a single second to playing. Oh, well.

More if you've ever read Watchmen joke, than a game joke.

Loved it!

Agreed, this is the best strip yet.

FGJ --

Well, I have read WATCHMEN, but I must admit I was far from bowled over. I put it *several* notches below V FOR VENDETTA, for instance.

Probably extermely funny if you know anything about games. Which I don’t — never have devoted a single second to playing. Oh, well.

Game:a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance. In the video game realm, a player usually has to complete a set of tasks to advance to the next level in the game, each level becoming more difficult and building to some final confrontation with the "boss", and defeating this boss means you've won the game. There are sometimes "instruction booklets" explaining some of the "tools" the player uses to make it through each level.

Seriously, I can't go further with this. Your original post was just breathtakingly pointless (meaning "it takes my breath away", in case you've never devoted a single second to the word), and I am seriously don't understand what your follow-up has to do with this strip or your original post.

Damn, that was good.

joshschr --

Anyone with a brain -- a category that apparently doesn't include you, though the fact that you could type a bunch of words correctly & in order gives us all a smidgen of hope -- could surmise that I was referring to computer &/or video-gaming ... which, truthfully, I've never engaged in at all. Nope, not a single second. Honest!

As for my follow-up, it was just as obviously a reply to FunkyGreenJerusalem's response to my post. Admittedly, I referred to him as "FGJ," for which I abjectly apologize -- it's pretty clear that abbreviations are yet another of the near-infinite number of concepts you're not advanced enough to grasp. Again, we all live in hope that maybe someday you'll get there. Keep trying!

And I see this idiot site yet again didn't pick up my name. Is there *some* way this can be fixed? I'm certainly not the only one experiencing it, regardless of what browser we use.

And *again*. Apparently, one of the morons responsible for helping wreck the Newsarama site has gotten involved in messing this one up as well.

Make them stop.

That was clever. I started laughing thirty-five minutes ago.

Well, I have read WATCHMEN, but I must admit I was far from bowled over. I put it *several* notches below V FOR VENDETTA, for instance.

Well that's more your business, your opinion of the work has little to do with the strips gags - I'm just saying that if you've read Watchmen, and can imagine the concept of a Watchmen game, then you've got all you need to know to laugh at his strip.
I mean I don't have a drivers license, but I still know about driving etc
Also, I showed a guy I work with who hasn't read Watchmen the strip, and he laughed - although he took 'you lost 35 minutes ago' to be more a 'life sucks' type theme.
He'll learn.

But see, that's the problem. I can't really "imagine the concept of a Watchmen game," because any game that's not played ... I dunno ... 52-card decks or game boards or balls happens to be foreign to my experience. Would you, as a non-driver, get every nuance if I tried to make some joke about standard transmissions vs automatics? Maybe so ... maybe not.

I have no doubt that this particular installment of the strip is excellent (everyone else's reaction certainly indicates that). I'm just saying that because of my own areas of ignorance, most of it's lost on me. Why that's apparently some sort of crime against humanity (not that *you're* the one acting like it is), I'm not sure.

I do know that 9 times out of 10, I've liked the strip a lot.

You know, when I saw some of the production shots of this strip many months ago I just knew it was going to suck. I was so confident it would suck that I proceeded to describe just how much in the 42906 post strong (and counting) "Comic Critics #40: Sucky Strip, or the Suckiest Strip?" thread at CBR.

But now? Hurm...

(Great job guys, loved this one.)

I can’t really “imagine the concept of a Watchmen game,” because any game that’s not played … I dunno … 52-card decks or game boards or balls happens to be foreign to my experience.

There you go, instead of playing a Wii, pretend it's a board game or a an RPG (I've never played a pen and paper RPG, but I've gathered the basics over the years).

But just to be clear, like people who get scared of Scott Pilgrim because it references computer games (a complaint I've never understood as it's a lot more about music than games), I think you're more worried about missing something in there due to not having played videogames than you actually are.
'Press A to jump, B to punch, Z to break smallest bone in man's hand' really gives you all the info you need to know, for instance, as does the kid getting sadder and sadder as he plays.

I'm actually surprised there aren't comments here saying 'where are the usual characters? Is Marissa a boy in the future? Who are these characters - I can't laugh if I don't know everything about them' etc.
I'm proud of y'all!

I've never played an RPG in any format, either, but your points are well taken.

I lol'd.

FGJ - I had the same initial reaction, but the joke really doesn't work with familiar characters. We can assume that any of the critics would know enough about Watchmen to get the jokes as they play the game. This is more of a one-off than a story arc, although I'd love to see an arc about more casual comic fans reacting to the deeper stuff.

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