Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Who Watches The Watchkids?
This month, every Trophy Bomb post is inspired by a drawing from DeviantART.com. Today's piece is inspired by user jbwarner86.
Everywhere I go, there are posters and billboards asking me, “Who Watches The Watchmen?” As an adult, I find the question mentally stimulating and it excites me for the upcoming film. However, I walked past a kid at a bus stop saying, “the Watchmen? Why should I give a care?” But instead of “care,” he said the “F” word, which is “fuck.” If Warner Bros. wants this movie to succeed, they’ve got to market better to children. They need a Watchkids TV show.
The premise is that all the Watchmen started crime fighting together around the age of 12. Older superheroes have a dusty old code for how things should be done — but The Watchmen play by their own rules! *Guitar Shredding* Their leader is Night Sparrow, the brash, skateboarding hero with a huge heart. Silk Blanket is a girl who can kick butt, just as good as any guy (maybe better?!)! There’s also Ozy the nerd, Mini Manhattan the muscle, Comedy Kid the prankster and Rorschach the cat. Meet the kid-approved Watchmen!
Here’s an episode idea: Night Sparrow says girls aren’t as good at crime fighting as boys, so Silk Blanket bets that she can lick him in a number of super hero obstacle courses. Meanwhile, Ozy explains to Mini Manhattan why it’d be a good idea to level New York City (setting up the conflicts in the movie). It’ll air on the new teen-friendly Cartoon Network, right after Total Drama Island. Cause what could be more dramatic than a battle of the sexes between friends? Nothing!
I’m guessing a vocal minority of you think that adapting The Watchmen to a kid’s cartoon is somehow disrespectful to the original work. Well, I’m telling you, this show is gonna be good. No, not just good — Pepper Ann good. In fact, the cartoon is going to be so good, it’ll make the graphic novel seem disrespectful for the show. What do you think of that Alan Moore? This cartoon is going to fuck your book until it screams for a towel and more pills.
Forget all that Watchmen stuff you don’t understand, kids. All you need to worry about is one question: “Who Watches The Watchkids?” Answer: you idiot kids. Hopefully it will appear on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, depending on who’ll give me more money. Also, here’s a toy idea: it’s a kid’s button maker that will only make the bloody smile face logo. Just pour blood into the blood tank and watch it go! Wheeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the picture, I tried to think of a Watchmen / Pokemon angle, but I decided to go this direction instead, for better or for worse (check a local paper for your Lynn Johnston fix). Here’s another amazing Pokemon mashup, this one found by Amanda. It’s too amazing.
2 Comments
February 25th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I just wanted to let you know even though I haven’t had time to stalk you via comments in every post, I found this post to be hilarious.
I really think this could work as a series.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Thanks Paul! Always great to hear from you.
Of course it could. They made Nite Owl coffee, so why not this?
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