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Marketing for Zack Snyder’s $130-million adaptation of Watchmen apparently took a bizarre turn over Valentine’s Day Weekend as Warner Bros. turned to some creative measures.
According to WatchmenComicMovie.com, folks in Columbus, Ohio, were handed a matchbook-style package emblazoned with the familiar bloodstained smiley face. When the cover was opened, they found a neon-blue condom and the slogan, “We’re Society’s Only Protection.”
Soon I’m going to create a “Things That Make Alan Moore Scream” tag for the blog.
Watchmen opens on March 6.
(via Topless Robot)

14 Comments
David Uzumeri
February 17, 2009 at 12:39 pm
They should totally have little black hydrogen atom logos at the tip.
Randy
February 17, 2009 at 12:53 pm
That is some pretty awesome marketing. Alan Moore can eat it. /No, really.
Richard J. Marcej
February 17, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I’d rather have a Rorshach version that features constantly changing image shapes
RichYan33
February 17, 2009 at 1:03 pm
That’s gold Rich Marcej. GOLD!!!
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February 17, 2009 at 1:40 pm
epic! Now, if i can find the whole costume…
majorjoe23
February 17, 2009 at 2:15 pm
“That is some pretty awesome marketing. Alan Moore can eat it. /No, really.”
“We are the only industry that so loves its Colonel Parkers and so distrusts its Elvis Presleys.” — Tom Spurgeon.
Jack Norris
February 17, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I’m usually totally on Moore’s side, and I’m a big fan of his work, but there’s an evil side of me that thinks it would just be a total laugh riot to send him one of these.
Just like that “Watchmen Babies” thing from the Simpsons would have been a thousand times funnier as a practical joke played on him; ie actually making the thing as a mock up cover, and showing it to him while claiming that it was something that DC was actually going ahead with, and filming his reaction, rather than just a sitcom gag that he was already in on.
captain trips
February 17, 2009 at 5:27 pm
why should my penis save a vagina it no longer has any stake in?
Kenny
February 18, 2009 at 9:56 am
I think all the babymen who think of Alan Moore as some sort of bad person for his stance and Watchmen are hysterical. You guys truly don’t get anything, do you? I’m willing to bet the babymen crowd doesn’t understand any of what Watchmen is about. If they did, they wouldn’t be giddy about wanting a movie and toys and bed sheets and everything else.
I mean, seriously, has anyone ever been all up in arms because there isn’t a movie for Gravity’s Rainbow? No, you know why? Because literary fans understand the stuff they read and don’t have some bizarre emotional attachment to it.
majorjoe23
February 18, 2009 at 11:32 am
To be fair, plenty of literary fans have bizarre emotional attachments to the books they read.
Solo500
February 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Bizarre emotional attachment to a man wearing a piece of shape shifting lingerie over his face while wearing a trenchcoat & fighting crime? Why, whatever do you mean?
Gravity’s Rainbow was OK but missing some fight scenes IMO.
Alan Moore is obviously in the right on all of this stuff.
Jack Norris
February 18, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Kenny:
There’s no “You guys” on this comment thread. Only one (one!) person here has said anything actively anti-Moore, everyone else has mostly just been joking around. My own suggestion was given with the caveat that I’m on Moore’s side ethically, I just thought it was something that would be funny because outraged people make me laugh, as I’m just kind of a dick that way.
captain trips
February 18, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Jack Norris, I want to clarify that I was not joking.
Seriously, why should my penis save a vagina it no longer has any stake in?
TLMcC
March 6, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I’m kinda in love with you, captain trips. so you and your penis can do it for me.