Watchmen
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[edit] Introduction
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[edit] The Canon
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[edit] Terminology
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
[edit] 1986
- "In 1986 and 1987, DC Comics published a twelve-issue original monthly limited series," called the Watchmen. [1]
[edit] 1987
- "In 1987, Moore picked up his third Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer, which he won for Watchmen. " [2]
[edit] 1989
- "In or around 1989 (Terry Gilliam, in The Comics Journal #182, on page 88, said that it was "right after [1989's The Adventures of Baron] Munchausen") that Joel Silver, who had produced Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, talked to director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys) about directing a Watchmen film." [3]
[edit] 2000
- On November 29, 2000, the Spanish language mailing list wewatchthewatchmen was created. [4]
[edit] 2001
- On April 4, 2001, the LiveJournal community watchmen was created. [5]
[edit] 2002
- On March 24, 2002, the Portuguese language mailing list AlanMooreBigNumbersWatchmen was created. [6]
[edit] 2004
- On April 16, 2004, the article about the Watchmen on the comic book site, Sequential Tart, was last updated. [7]
[edit] 2007
- In April 2007, the bebo group MinutemanHQ was created. [8]
- On August 16, 2007, the InsaneJournal asylum quis_custodiet was created. [9]
- In September 2007, the bebo group comicbookfans was created. [10]
- On October 8, 2007, the LiveJournal fan fiction community watchmenfic was created. [11]
- On November 4, 2007, the LiveJournal community watchmenmovie was created. [12]
- On November 7, 2007, the LiveJournal community we_watch was created. [13]
[edit] 2008
- On March 5, 2008, The Annotated Watchmen was updated. [14]
- On May 24, 2008, the MySpace group watchmencomics was created. [15]
- On July 19, 2008, the MySpace group watchmenmoviegroup was created. [16]
- On July 25, 2008, there was a panel about the Watchmen at the Comicon in San Diego. [17]
- On July 26, 2008, the LiveJournal slash community watchmen_slash was created. [18]
- In August 2008, "Twentieth Century Fox's war with Warner Bros. over rights to Watchmen has sparked fan outrage across the Web following a published report that Fox is seeking to prevent Zack Snyder's $100 million-plus comic book adaptation from ever being released, a report that most reasonable people and several informed sources believe just isn't accurate." [19]
- On August 9, 2008, the MySpace group whowatches was created. [20]
- On August 12, 2008, the LiveJournal community movie_watchmen was created. [21]
- On August 17, 2008, the LiveJournal community fuckyouwatchmen was created. [22]
- On August 21, 2008, the LiveJournal icon community minutemenicons was created. [23]
[edit] Kerfluffles
[edit] Release kerfluffle
On August 20, 2008, Entertainment Weekly published an article about battle between fans, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers. [24]
On August 31, 2008, SocialMedian linked to the Entertainmet Weekly article on their site and on Twitter. [25]
[edit] Fan fiction
Compared to other comic book fandoms, the fan fictio community for the Watchmen is really small and only started to actively oganize when news of the movie came out.
[edit] Influential fanworks
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[edit] Fandom members
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[edit] Fandom size
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[edit] External links
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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