Beautiful Watchmen photo gallery

I WAS a relative latecomer to Watchmen - I first read it three years ago - but I love it like no other.

The richness and depth of the storytelling and characterisation by Alan Moore, the efficiency and crispness of Dave Gibbons' artwork - it left me spellbound then and does the same now whenever I return to the graphic novel (which is often).

So I have stayed away from putting too much on here about the film because I thought it was bound to be terrible, some Hollywood abortion that will take the source material and piss all over it (c. A Moore)

But .... but .....

The people behind it have been bang on the money so far in the way they have drawn the wider community into the making of the film and nailed the look of the graphic novel.

That feeling grew this morning when I saw these pictures on IO9. Click through for the full gallery.

Damn they look awesome, especially in black and white.

They were taken by Clay Eno for his book Watchmen Portraits, a behind the scenes look at the fim and the characters. Clay also recreated the Minutemen picture and did other photo work for the film.

Of course, that doesn't mean the film will be any good, but I have much more hope now than I did.

I'm now in the will definitely see it camp, instead of the it's bound to be shit gang.