FROM MTV.COM: We’ve spoken to the director and the stars — hell, we’ve even spoken to Lee Iacocca! But it feels like one key “Watchmen” voice has been missing from MTV’s countdown to the movie — and, as we all know, Alan Moore ain’t talking.

We were just as eager to sit down with Dave Gibbons, Moore’s legendary collaborator on “Watchmen.” The comic book artist has since tackled classic characters such as Green Lantern and Superman and is happy to play good cop to Moore’s grumpy grandfather. Gibbons was eager to talk to us about the movie, the madness and where it all began.

For our full Q&A with “Watchmen” co-creator Dave Gibbons, head over to MTV.com

Here we are, “Watchmen” watchers — after months of anticipation (not to mention the threat of an indefinite delay), we’re mere days away from the world premiere of Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons‘ groundbreaking graphic novel. And if you think the full-court marketing push for “Watchmen” will be letting up now that we can see March 6 on our calendars, think again, as Warner Bros. has released a plethora of TV spots and a series of all-new featurettes featuring the cast, director and co-creator.

Here’s Malin Ackerman (Silk Spectre II) and Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan):

After the jump, we’ve got the rest of the video clips and TV spots hitting the ‘Net before this Friday’s release. Read more…

Despite the fact that we left our faithful readers on a downer this past week concerning the legal battle over the rights to “Watchmen,” two facts remain.

One, even though the release date may be in jeopardy because of all this, we will see “Watchmen” hit the multiplex eventually, and two, for co-creator Dave Gibbons, just that feat alone is a worthy accomplishment.

In a recent sit-down with the UK’s Digital Spy, Gibbons related “Watchmen” making the jump to the screen like playing Mega Millions, saying, “I always looked upon it as a bit like having a ticket in a lottery. The chances are it won’t come up, and if it doesn’t come up I won’t be disappointed. I haven’t been holding my breath all these years thinking, ‘Oh, please make a movie of it, it’s gotta be a movie’. But the fact that it is being done, and it’s being done quite well, I’m quite excited about it.” Read more…

Comic book writers and artists are usually all too eager to explain the inspirations behind the heroes they create — be they Biblical, fictional, historical, or just knock-offs of other comic characters — and “Watchmen” co-creator Dave Gibbons is no exception. However, for the resident anti-hero in “Watchmen,” Rorschach, Gibbons explains that he found heroic inspiration in a rather unlikely duo of historical figures.

“I put him in the same kind of bag as Hitler and Margaret Thatcher — you might not like them but you can’t deny that there’s something very attractive about someone who has no grey areas,” Gibbons recently related to DigitalSpy. “Just as all the characters are archetypal - there’s the Batman equivalent, the feisty female heroine, the Superman - Rorschach is like the gumshoe detective or the masked vigilante taken way out of everyone’s comfort zone. The ultimate vigilante where everything is black and white.” Read more…

Over the past year, Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons have become creative forces to be reckoned with in the world of comic book movies. Both have major projects in the works — Miller’s “The Spirit” and Gibbons on “Watchmen” (which he co-created) — and, thanks to their respective, storied careers, both have plenty more where that came from in terms of groundbreaking comic book work. But what about a possible team-up between these two comic titans?

When DigitalSpy.co.uk recently asked Gibbons what he’d like to work on after “Watchmen,” the acclaimed artist hinted at the possibility. “There was a series I did with Frank Miller called ‘Martha Washington,’ which in fact is longer than ‘Watchmen,’ it’s about 500 pages. Frank’s enjoying a certain amount of success in Hollywood and I wouldn’t be surprised if something happens with that. I think that would make a great movie.” Read more…

You don’t usually think of Superman needing saving. But a campaign has just been launched for a rescue mission of sorts — to save the house where Superman was born.

“When I saw that the house where Superman was created was in disrepair, it just seemed wrong,” Brad Meltzer said. “The house where Google was created is saved. The farm where Hewlett Packard was founded is preserved. The Superman house deserves the same respect.” (See exclusive art from the auction after the jump!) Read more…

With all of the news about the Watchmen/Fox/Warner Bros. lawsuit making the rounds on the internet, maybe now would be a good time to remind you that the film is done — or maybe it’ll take co-creater Dave Gibbons to remind ya!

In a post on the Times UK’s Blockbuster Buzz blog, Gibbons recently hosted a Q&A at the British Film Institute to discuss the upcoming “Watchmen” companion book, but naturally, the questions were all about the film. Gibbons, while not giving too much away, did say that the film was “very sexy, very violent,” and that the rough cut clocked in at two hours and 45 minutes and will definitely get an R-rating. Read more…