Roll On 2009!

2008 is already shaping up to be a great year for superheroes in the cinema - with Iron Man and Indiana Jones leading the charge - but the big announcement at this weekend's Comic Con in San Diego was the unveiling of the first teaser for 2009's Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder. The cast was also named, but given the amount of recent Internet buzz and rumour, there were no real surprises there.

Without a doubt Watchmen stands as the greatest superhero comic book story yet penned, and is certainly one of the top three all time greats (with Kingdom Come and The Dark Knight) that everyone should have on their shelves.

I loved it when it first came out and have always thought - like many - that it was 'unfilmable', but Snyder's proved his comic book-adaption skills with 300, so we'll just have to wait and see how his celluloid incarnation of this classic measures up with the original.