WATCHMEN radio drama

Taken strictly on its own merits as an audio play, this ambitious adaptation of the first chapter of Watchmen just doesn't work. If you'd never read the book you'd be absolutely lost, and there are long stretches where all you hear is sound effects and the occasional grunt. (In the clip below, that disturbing, rhythmic moaning you hear starting around the 7:45 mark is from a sequence where Rorschach is using a grappling hook to scale the side of a building... But that's sure not what it sounds like!)



But while it kind of fails as an independent work, I can see it being loads of fun if you read it alongside the book... Like those old kiddie records that came with Spiderman or Star Trek comics, where you could actually hear the story as you flipped the pages.

Youtube user Pgirts is a talented fellow. In addition to the Watchmen audio, he's also posted a lot of voiceover audition clips where he does some pretty amazing impressions. His version of the Mark Hamill Joker doing Heath Ledger's "Why so serious?" scene from The Dark Knight isn't just amazingly accurate, it's also scary as freaking hell.




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