Watchmen: Your first look at the Minutemen

The Minutemen were the first superhero team in the Watchmen universe. A sort of 'Justice Society of America' to the Watchmen's dysfunctional JLA. This terrific still from the eagely-anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore's deep, multilayered comic book series suggests that there will be ample attention paid to the wider context provided in the comic by Hollis Mason's memoir.

Remember, too that The Black Freighter is being filmed as a standalone animation that will, we now hear, be released as a DVD at or around the same time as the movie hits the multiplexes.

How Watchmen will play to newcomers I wouldn't like to say, but for those of us that revere the original trade paperback as one of the pinnacles of comic book creativity this is going to be a spectacular treat.