Every once in awhile you come across some viral propaganda that’s actually pretty neat, actually. (Consider.)
Hoping to reignite the sleeping flames of The Watchmen comic series fans, Rubber Republic launched a YouTube channel to populate with retro news stories.
Commentary’s mostly favourable and views are high: all signs of happy viral life. People seem impatient for more news stories to appear as the public release of The Watchmen draws near. (In theatres March 6, boys and girls.)
We’re suckers for an elaborate backstory, so this is some pretty cool shit. Hopefully the film will maintain the same fidelity to the spirit of the original comics.
Find more goodies — including a retro game, widgets and all the necessary social network tie-ins — at thenewfrontiersman.net. One of the videos has also been posted below.
“NBS Nightly News with Ted Philips, March 11th 1970”:
