Alan Moore’s Watchmen has had a little resurgence as of late between the “Before Watchmen” books (which are surprisingly better than they have any right to be) and Matty Collector’s from-outta-nowhere “Club Black Freighter” figures, which are slated for next year. I was pretty close to subbing for those figures, but with the “Club Infinite Earth” sub in question at the time, it meant the possibility of paying $10 shipping per Watchmen figure if CIE didn’t go through. Ultimately I declined and as we all know now, CIE went through anyway. Way to cost yourselves a sub, Matty!

But that’s all fine and dandy because a short while ago I happened to pick up a complete set of DC Direct’s Watchmen line (Series 1 & 2, variants and all) for the mighty appetizing price of about six bucks a figure. As much as I’d like to have DCUC styled Watchmen, the DC Direct figures have a charm all of their own and these sure as hell didn’t set me back $25 each.

So, with The Watchmen suddenly somewhat topical again, I decided to devote a week to checking out the DC Direct figures. Of course, the really great thing about Watchmen Week, is it gives me today off because I’m going to start the week with a re-run. If you haven’t checked out my feature on DC Direct’s Comedian  go have a gander and start your Doomsday Clocks ticking. Meanwhile, I’m going to go pop in my Watchmen Blu-Ray, flip through my trade edition of the funnybook and get myself geared up for a week of Watchmen goodness.

I’ll be back tomorrow to check out Rorschach.