Here’s a nifty video of Alan Moore reading an excerpt from Rorschach’s journal in The Watchmen. This is great timing for me, since I just started re-reading The Watchmen the other day, after not having read it for several years (it was my present to myself for having weighed in at less than 260 pounds at my last Weight Watchers meeting; when I hit 255, I get the Cloverfield DVD).  So listening to Moore read Rorscharch’s journal, with his gritty voice really brings alive this deeply troubled character.

Of course, Rorschach is an all-American hero and prides himself on that. I’m not entirely sure he’d speak with a British accent like Moore does. Still, it’s pretty awesome.

In other comic book news I highly recommend to you Fables, if you haven’t already started reading it. It’s my personal favorite treatment of the "fairy tale characters stuck in the modern world" trope, and it’s worth a read. The writing is quite good.

And I’ve also decided to try to write up "Night of the Frozen Elf" as a comic book script, and then pass it off to a friend of mine who’s expressed some interest in doing the artwork. Huzzah!