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 | | While the Watchmen characters were initally inspired by various Charlton Comics characters, it's worth noting that Moore borrowed elements of other comic book characters as well, and also drew upon his own imagination. | | | The title of each chapter is an excerpt from a famous quotation, which is given in full at the end of the chapter and in some way reflects the events, or the theme, in that chapter. | | | Watchmen (along with The Dark Knight Returns, Crisis on Infinite Earths and other crossovers and "event" comics of the period) was parodied by The Simpsons Comics' Radioactive Man series: Radioactive Man #679 (September 1994), entitled "Who Washes The Washmen's Infinite Secrets Of Legendary Crossover Knight Wars?" by Steve Vance. |
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| | TNMC: The Tuesday Night Movie Club |
| | After all that bitching about how faithful the work is for the trunk of the story, I have to tell you that Hayter did make certain changes near the end. | | | He messed with the story and characters a bit, and there was a time when my inner fanboy would have gone into a frothing rage over such sacrilege. | | | His work on Batman, however, earned him enough credit with dark comic book characters that he was given the opportunity to write a draft of Watchmen. |
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| | The Friday Review: Watchmen |
| | As well as having inspired a multitude of imitators, WATCHMEN raised the standard at which mainstream comics should be held, and represents a career peak for Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. | | | Albert Einstein once remarked that "God is in the details" - if so, than whole pantheons must dwell within the panels Gibbons and Higgins illustrate. | | | But of course, new readers regularly discover the book for the first time, and each reader can bring a fresh perspective to the text. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Watchmen at Epinions.com |
| | As Kurt_H has reviewed well the many subtleties in Moore's Watchmen, I thought I'd share some of my personal observation and, hence, attraction to what many consider to be the best comic ever written, at least as far as the superhero genre goes. | | | I don't usually read comic books and graphic novels (with the exception of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" books), but I have to say that found "Watchmen" to be absolutely riveting. | | | POTUS W/O: Nixon and Rohrshach are the real heroes of Alan Moore's "Watchmen". |
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http://www.epinions.com/Watchmen_by_Alan_Moore_Books/display_~reviews
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| | The Greatest Comics - Watchmen #1 |
| | · In the world of the Watchmen, comic books do exist, but the most popular genre is pirate stories, a fact used to interesting effect throughout the series. | | | Every street sign, every magazine cover, every minute detail in the background moves the story along, and it makes you wish every comic was as expertly polished. | | | And what if someone was brave enough to write a story about them? |
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http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/watchmen1.html
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| | Review of Graphic Novels |
| | By the middle of Watchmen, Rorschach is in jail, and Chapter VI, “The Abyss Gazes Also,” is told from the point of view of the psychiatrist whose job it is to fix Rorschach. | | | Layered through most of the Watchmen is the comic book Tales of the Black Freighter (introduced in Chapter 3, right before Dr. Manhattan’s origin story). | | | Fittingly, there’s no discernible villain for the majority of Watchmen, and there’s certainly no supervillain all dressed up in tights -- in some ways, this is the exact opposite of The Dark Knight Returns. |
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http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/graphicnovels.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Watchmen: Books: Alan Moore,Dave Gibbons |
| | The one inherent advantage that "Watchman" has over Frank Miller's classic tale is that it requires no knowledge of the existing mythos of its characters because Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, the Comedian and the rest of the former members of the Crimebusters. | | | With all the entertaining aspects of the storytelling, it's a pity that the writing has several serious failings. | | | Second, almost every issue has scenes from "Tales of the Black Freighter," a comic-book being read by a kid near a newsstand, which offers an allegorical perspective on the main plot line. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0930289234?v=glance
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| | CHUD.com - Cinematic Happenings Under Development |
| | Q: That’s interesting because at the end of the 90s Watchmen seemed like it might be a relic from another time. | | | I don’t come to Watchmen in the way that maybe many of you do — from a lifetime of studying comic books and graphic novels. | | | What’s interesting today is that we live with new paranoias, but they are paranoias. |
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| | Watchmen observations |
| | The blood distinguishes Watchmen from the action comics it's inspired by. | | | Chapter 1 is a plot chapter, introducing the mystery of Blake's murder. | | | We see later, 6:26:6, that Rorschach has taken on himself God's job of maintaining moral order. |
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| | POV SHOT - THROUGH BINOCULARS A magnified view of the SPECK, which turns out to be a futuristic, blimplike HOVERCRAFT -- the OWLSHIP. | | | AERIAL SHOT - ON OWLSHIP -- because the Owlship is really there. | | | The MONITOR shows a magnified view of the PRISON COMPLEX below them. |
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| | Did the comic book really need to grow up? By Tom Shone |
| | The suspicion lingers that Watchmen was more a triumph of writing than draftsmanship. | | | Such is the inverted central conceit of the book, in which superheroes are far too busy defending themselves from the world to contemplate saving it. | | | Watchmen was unquestionably a landmark work, a masterpiece, even. |
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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Watchmen |
| | Watchmen, along with its contemporary, Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, has had a strong influence on the superhero comics that followed, but few have come up to its standards. | | | It remains in print, a lasting reminder of what comic books and their dominant genre are capable of. | | | Watchmen was an attempt to bring such fantastic characters into the "real" world (whatever that is). |
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| | My Watchmen Bench strips |
| | A silly gag, referring to Watchmen I 10 (Dan comes home to find Rorschach has broken in and is eating beans), and Penny Arcade's 12/29/99 The Boy Ain't Right. | | | This one's not as literal a version as the others; Veidt's and Manhattan's text is taken from other contexts in Watchmen (I 17 & IV 19) where they are referring to Blake. | | | This one is a lot wackier than Watchmen III! |
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| | Post Watchmen |
| | If you feel that God is calling you to be a Marketplace Watchman and would like to be "posted" on the walls of the City, then please make contact with us. | | | But I will cut off Satan’s strength from every direction, as through the Watchman anointing My people discern Me.” | | | You may be an experienced watchman but hear God calling you to move into the Marketplace for what he is doing at this time. |
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http://www.synapsenow.com/synapse/homepage/view_public.cfm?edit_id=47&website=marketplaceministers.net
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Watchmen, The |
| | Formed in 1987, The Watchmen were named by Serlin who is a major comic book collector and suggested the name from one of his favourite books -- The Watchmen. | | | They became road warriors from their home base of Winnipeg playing 150 dates across Canada every year for 4 years. |
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| | The Annotated Watchmen |
| | The Annotated Watchmen was written for several reasons. | | | PLEASE let me know about any errors or suggestions (about the formatting only -- Doug's in charge of the content) you may have. |
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| | Watchmen |
| | Watchmen won't be the first Hollywood adaptation of Moore's work ('From Hell' and the forthcoming 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' starring Sean Connery are both comic-book adaptations) but it is certainly the most eagerly anticipated. | | | Watchmen - on the other hand - is the heady wine of comic books. | | | Watchmen, written by Alan Moore and first published 17 years ago has been in - what Hollywood calls - development hell since it's inception. |
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| | Watchmen annotations |
| | This is a set of annotations to issues of the Watchmen twelve-part series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (published by DC Comics), as compiled by | | | All suggestions on the annotations themselves should be sent to Doug Atkinson. |
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| | Technorati Tag: watchmen |
| | The Watchmen Books Buy the Watchmen Book at SHOP.COM. | | | He suggests the pastor/leaders have emasculated the watchmen in their... | | | Watchmen, based on an Alan Moore graphic novel published by DC, is an... |
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| | Yahoo! GeoCities - wolverine_78763's Home Page |
| | The series is written and illustrated by the legendary Frank Miller with inks by Klaus Johnson and colors by Lynn Varley. | | | That might mean they're dark, but it also means the best of them can go toe-to-toe with anything else in literature. | | | On the contrary, the impact of his story had left his editor speechless. |
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| | The Annotated Watchmen |
| | Panel 7: "Who Watches the Watchmen" was popular graffiti around the time of the Keene act. | | | It comes from the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes," a quote from Juvenal's Satires and, of course, is the source of the title of the series. | | | Panel 6: The "Pale Horse" graffiti refers to a popular band. |
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| | Watchmen - Introduction |
| | Finally, here was the Annotated Watchmen, written by Doug Atkinson and located at http://www.msu.edu/~whitero2/watchmen.html. | | | The central characters in the series "Watchmen" are based upon a number of characters originally published by Charlton Comics. | | | Skills and disads were taken from the source, or were added based on personal opinion of what the character should have. |
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| | Blather: The Alan Moore Interview |
| | Born in Northampton, England, in 1953, he was nothing short of seminal in the 1980s with Watchmen and nothing less than monumental in the 1990s with From Hell. | | | He talks about his comics work in great detail, as well as his non-comics writing, his CDs and his interest in the occult. | | | Blather, FREE as always, is proud to present a lengthy and in-depth interview with this world-renowned comics writer. |
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| | The Night Watchmen: Meet The Band: Gentry Bronson |
| | The dark angel of sound had returned (god, I can be so melodramatic). | | | Somewhere on the road, I had vowed never to form another band, and in the beginning, the band that I never wanted, the Night Watchmen, was a mess. | | | The Night Watchmen: Meet The Band: Gentry Bronson |
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| | Who Watches the Watchmen? |
| | In the last century, humankind has developed terribly powerful technology, as Ozymandias says, "Our scientists are limited only by their imaginations." Dr. Manhattan asks, "And by their consciences, surely?" Ozymandias speaks for us all when he replies, "Let's hope so."17 | | | A dichotomy exists in the four central characters, those two that are amoral, the Comedian and Dr. Manhattan, and those that disregard conventional morality in their personal struggles to right the world, these two being Rorschach (like the famous psychological test) and Ozymandias (another name for Rameses II). | | | In the graphic novel The Watchmen, author Alan Moore uses humanity's heroes, literally their superheroes, to debate these questions. |
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| | Watchmen - Comics2Film |
| | Politically charged filmmaker Paul Greengrass no longer appears attached to direct the movie. | | | Simon Pegg says he's not in 'Watchmen' (EXTERNAL ARTICLE) | | | Paul Greengrass on why his version of 'Watchmen' didn't fly (EXTERNAL ARTICLE) |
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| | Watchmen Watchmen movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
| | It is the signature work of English writer Alan Moore, whose trailblazing oeuvre also includes the movie-friendly V for Vendetta, From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. | | | Nearly two decades after creating a comic book about superheroes in the modern world, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons revisit their work by Jeff Jensen | | | ''Watchmen,'' declares Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, ''is the greatest piece of popular fiction ever produced.'' |
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| | Watchmen (John's Book Pages) |
| | Moore writes an excellent story that works at several levels and (as he demonstrated in Miracleman) he's gifted at twisting a familiar subject and forcing us to look at in a new way. | | | I wish people wouldn't infer from the extremely low average quality of comics that real literature cannot be done in this medium. | | | Watchmen is the best of the revisionist superhero comics of the 80s. |
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| | About Watchmen Bench strips |
| | You really should read Watchmen if you haven't! | | | I'll provide a little explanation with each strip for those who haven't read Watchmen, but some of it might be spoilers. | | | I love the Gibbons art in Watchmen, but I wanted to do all the non-main-character art myself!) I'm using original Watchmen text unless there's a strip-specific reason not to. |
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| | COMICON.com: WATCHMEN MAKES TIME'S TOP 100 BOOKS LIST |
| | The book has also been restored and recolored by WildStorm FX and original colorist John Higgins and approved by Gibbons to appear as originally intended. | | | As far as Watchmen goes, there's no doubting that it is a great comic book, but that's all it is. It read a lot better when I was 16 than now when I'm 33. | | | What I like best about Watchmen is that we got to see the characters at different stages of their lives. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Watchmen - Alan Moore - Paperback |
| | sounds like a true believer in Jesus has in fact uncovered a sinister plot by satan and his antichrist army coming to murder millions of innocent civilians.Who watches the Watchmen. | | | Someone who's trying to kill them all, one by one. | | | Manhattan, the lone character who genuinely possesses supernatural powers (gained from a quantum physics experiment gone horribly wrong), is so close to godhood that he can appreciate human affairs only at a subatomic scale. |
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| | IGN: Watchmen Trailer, Wallpaper, Pictures, Soundtrack and More. |
| | The Stax Report: Special Watchmen Edition - October 28, 2003 | | | Chronicles the influence of The Watchmen, a superhero group from the '60s and their influence on the world society. | | | Watchmen: Read Between the Lines - May 9, 2005 |
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| | Salon.com People We need another hero |
| | Fourteen years after brilliantly deconstructing comic books half to death, "Watchmen" creator Alan Moore wants to rebuild. | | | In 1986 the legendary comic book author changed the genre forever with "Watchmen," a 12-part serial in which superheroes turned rapists, racists and flunkies of Richard Nixon are hunted down in the days before World War III. | | | This series was read by people who'd never read comics before and never would again. |
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| | DC Comics |
| | Celebrate the 20th anniversary of WATCHMEN — the classic 12-issue miniseries by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons &; with WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION, the first hardcover of this classic work in more than a decade! | | | This oversized hardcover collection, packaged inside a beautifully designed slipcase, will be the cornerstone of any serious comic book collection. | | | Additionally, this grand tome will include 48 pages of supplemental material produced exclusively for the Graphitti Designs WATCHMEN hardcover edition and not seen since their original publication. |
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| | BBC - collective - Watchmen comic Moore/Gibbons |
| | Watchmen is a superhero novel like no other. | | | Watchmen is set in a world where superheroes are real. | | | Each issue of the original comic came with several pages of text, from the reality of the Watchmen world, which either directly or by inference supported the emerging story and characters. |
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| | Watchmen |
| | For the first time, I believe that WATCHMEN can work. | | | I know the original WATCHMEN quite well, and I'm familiar with the Sam Hamm version that was commissioned in the early '90s. | | | With the right support and the full weight of the studio on his side, David Hayter is poised to make the GODFATHER of superhero films, that rare thing which transcends the genre it represents and becomes something unforgettable. |
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| | Watchmen Radio Ministries International |
| | Watchmen Radio Ministries International is an evangelical Christian organization committed to evangelizing needy people groups through radio missions. | | | We are governed by a board of directors of Christian men and women from various denominational and church backgrounds all committed to carrying out the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| | Watchmen - Wikiquote |
| | It has sometimes been described as a "post-modern" or "deconstructionist" take on the comic book superhero. | | | Watchmen is a graphic novel published by DC Comics in twelve installments in 1986-87. | | | The publications here exist only in the fictional Watchmen universe unless otherwise noted. |
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| | www.myspace.com/watchmen |
| | However, ten years later, it may be time yet again for WATCHMEN to return. | | | By the early 90s, WATCHMEN was essentially a vehicle for Mathews' music making as his friends had migrated to the USA. | | | Due to a dispute over the WATCHMEN name with his former partners, Mathews stopped using the name in 1995. |
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| | Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons - Graphic novel review |
| | It may seem hard to imagine today, but back in 1985, nobody was particularly familiar with the idea of superheroes with human emotions, psychological problems, or anything other than square jaws and simple morals. | | | Words by Alan Moore - Art by Dave Gibbons - Published by DC Comics (US), Titan Books (UK) - First published 1987 - Originally published as Watchmen 1-12 | | | Home - News - Graphic novels by title - Graphic novels by writer - Graphic novels by artist - Search - Letters - Contact - About |
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| | IGN: Watchmen in Danger |
| | He also seemed to understand what the story's really about. | | | Greengrass, a politically minded filmmaker, advised CHUD in a recent interview that he finds Watchmen more relevant and important than ever. | | | Otherwise, no one might be watching the Watchmen. |
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| | 'Watchmen' unmasked for Par, Aronofsky |
| | The comic is credited for redefining the superhero genre and is often referred to as the "War and Peace" of comic books. | | | "Watchmen," created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, was released as a 12-issue comic book in 1986 and is one of the most critically acclaimed series in the genre. | | | Darren Aronofsky will develop and direct the project, which is being written by David Hayter. |
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| | Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel |
| | Watchmen, by Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, took a postmodern look at superheroes and is counted as a major influence on the current generation of genre filmmakers. | | | Watchmen was previously set up at Universal, where David Hayter signed a seven-figure deal in 2001 to adapt it, with an eye toward directing. | | | Warner Brothers has picked up Watchmen, the proposed superhero movie based on Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel, from Paramount, which had put the project into turnaround, Variety reported. |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Watchmen, The |
| | The song is a fierce rocker whose verses feature Greaves' familiar voice, but the chorus is a shout/scream-style with the help of Higgins as well. | | | Watchmen bassist Ken Tizzard says the decision to fold the band -- which also includes singer Danny Greaves, guitarist Joey Serlin and drummer Ryan Ahoff -- came about not because of musical differences or nasty infighting, but because of a bad case of creative stagnation. | | | TORONTO -- Before The Watchmen came to an end, Toronto-based frontman Danny Greaves started collaborating with bassist/guitarist Rob Higgins of The Royals (aka Rocket Science) and Change of Heart. |
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| | Watchmen |
| | The film adaptation of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" comic book is in pre-production, IGN FilmForce report... | | | Just a day after dropping their proposed "Watchmen" adaptation, Paramount Pictures announced that "M... | | | If you like Watchmen, the following films may interest you |
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| | Watchmen |
| | Set in an alternate America, Watchmen follows the costumed hero Rorschach, who is living a vigilante lifestyle because most masked heroes have retired or been outlawed. | | | A crime-conspiracy story that provided the first realistic look at the behind-the-heroics lives of superhero archetypes. | | | Fans fear that the much-awaited adaptation will get lost in the shuffle at Paramount Pictures. |
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| | The Watchmen. Home - GuildPortal Guild Hosting |
| | After much begging, 4 more heroes agreed to join and the Watchmen were born. | | | OpSteel on 4/1/2006 9:11 PM One year ago tonight, 2 heroes decided to start anew and form their own SG. | | | I would like to thank all of our members on a wonderful first year and for making this game fun for all of us. |
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| | Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel |
| | Levin—who is also producing Hellboy, based on Mike Mignola's comic series—added, "I really love comics, but I also really love movies about interesting characters. | | | Lloyd Levin, one of the producers of the upcoming sequel film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, told SCI FI Wire that he is also producing a faithful film version of Alan Moore/Dave Gibbon's seminal superhero graphic novel Watchmen, adapted by X-Men screenwriter David Hayter, who may also direct. | | | Past efforts to adapt Watchmen for the movies—including one by producer Joel Silver, with Terry Gilliam directing—have stalled. |
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| | The Night Watchmen: Meet The Band |
| | Bread and Roses called Gentry "a gem, an exceptional talent who captivates his audience." Gentry and The Night Watchmen released their latest CD Rain Come Down in 2005. | | | Mperia.com: Gentry leads the Night Watchmen, into a world that has been described as " the waterfront of beautiful losers and missed connections" | | | Gentry and gang are now in pre-production for they're latest release, a high energy alterna-pop record with the working title |
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