Your unapologetically geeky WATCHMEN post of the day

February 24th, 2009 at 10:50am Will Pfeifer

Here’s the video for My Chemical Romance’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” that’s on the WATCHMEN soundtrack. (In fact, if you go see a movie in the theater these days and you show up extra early, you’ll probably see a short making-of feature about this clip.) Notice the backdrop of the stage is a rorschach pattern, Pale Horse, a fictional band mentioned in the WATCHMEN graphic novel, in on the marquee, and there’s a smiley face on the drum. Too bad there aren’t any knottops all hopped up on KT-28s, though. That would’ve been a nice touch.

 

Why “Desolation Row”? Because the title of the first issue of WATCHMEN, “At Midnight, All the Agents” is taken from a line in the song: “At midnight, all the agents and the superhuman crew go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do.”

My Chemical Romance singer Gerald Way, incidentally, is the writer of another comic book series, THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. And you know what? It’s very, very good. Not quite WATCHMEN, but a lot better than you’d think coming from a rock star — apparently, he’s quite the comic book fan. Check it out if you get a chance.

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