First Look At Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ Causes Fanboy Nation To Crap Pants

300 director Zack Snyder understands and appreciates the fanboy brain. Realizing that Watchmen, the sacred graphic-novel text he’s been entrusted to adapt for Warner Bros. (and that Fox is suing to desist), is now “officially one year and counting” from its premiere, he’s posted a series of high-quality photographs of the major characters in costume to tide them over until then. One glimpse at the attention to detail (check out those heavy-duty codpieces!) paid to the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Nite-Owl (Patrick Wilson), and Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is sure to send the legions of fanboys who waited 22 years for this day running directly into their bathrooms, with strict orders to their moms that they aren’t to be disturbed.

• One Year to Midnight [rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen]