Before Watchmen - Silk Spectre #1 - 5 Page Preview

Watchmen Wednesday

Week 2 of Before Watchmen features the Silk Spectre.

Read the first five pages courtesy of the LA Times.

And here's an advance look at the cover for Silk Spectre Issue #3

Before Watchmen - Stylish "Silk Spectre #1" Variant Covers

Dave Johnson

Amanda Connor

Jim Lee

First look from DCComics.com at the fabulous variant covers for Silk Spectre #1.

One of the highly debated Before Watchmen Prequel Comics debuting in June.

Extra! New Frontiersman & Other Before Watchmen Headlines

The New Frontiersman Before Watchmen viral launched over the weekend. 

As a real handout @C2E2 (above) and as an online page with "hidden" links to an art previews,
as well as DC's various social media venues. CBR has a great rundown on the Watchmen
panel presentation from C2E2 here.

Here's the art and image revealed so far through the Frontiersman links.

DC also revealed more gorgeous cover art by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Connor this past week.

And the first round of statues were also on display @ C2E2. Images via CTR.

They all look great but I'm biased towards Rorschach because - well he's Rorschach - but also 

because he has a great dynamic sculpt by Jean St. Jean - who just plain rocks.

So, while initially wary of the whole Watchmen Prequel concept, I'm finding the artwork really
appealing (unlike a lot of last years New 52) and now I'm officially intrigued.

Hrm...DC Announces WATCHMEN Prequel Comics

The cat has been out of the bag about this for awhile, but today DC made the Before Watchmen 

prequel comics official. I'm not sure this is a wise move by DC - it's certainly unnecessary, and not anything fans were clamoring for. I understand Watchmen has been a huge boon to them over the 

years - the movie, flawed as it was, brought new readers to comics and I'm sure the hope is that this "event" will do the same. Still they have put some of the best writers and artists on these books - so I wouldn't be surprised if there are actually a few gems here. 

The difficulty with most prequel material in general is that it often answers too many questions, undermining the very mystique that made the original movie, comic, novel, etc. so intriguing. 

And yes - I'm looking at you Star Wars.

Power Girl by Elgunto, Amanda Conner & Jesse Munoz

Nike's Make Yourself A Superpower - Womens Gear Comic Book Catalog - With Art by Amanda Conner & Jan Duursema

The Nike Women’s Training Holiday 2011 Collection wants you to now just how super their winter line is.

So they got awesome comic book artists Amanda Conner and Jan Duursema to illustrate their point.

This is just fantastic - and the whole catalog is illustrated comic style - even the product pages...

 Fashion and action, women and comics - Nike gets it!

Via Newsarama and you can check out the whole catalog here