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Tonight, at the Hilton Hotel at Universal Studios, was the 34th Annual Saturn Awards. If you don’t know about the Saturn’s, it’s the once a year awards ceremony for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Zack and Debbie Snyder for Watchmen.

When I saw the two of them walking towards me on the red carpet, I’ll admit I was very happy. With Comic-Con around the corner, I realized this was the perfect place to get a jump on news and info that I could share with you. Thankfully, both were willing to talk and posted below is about 10 minutes of them answering all my questions.

But the highlight was easily the smile that Zack gave me when I confronted him with what I know to be true…that the trailer for Watchmen is attached to the Dark Knight. Watch his reaction.

We also discussed the running time, how long will the DVD be, the sizzle real he showed Warner Bros., and how Nite Owl’s ship is going to be at Comic-Con!

Trust me, if you’re a fan of Watchmen or are just looking forward to Zack’s new movie…this is a must see interview.

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This is one to read. Spurgeon’s series of holiday interviews gains some steam with his conversation with Joe McCulloch of Jog the Blog. It’s two of the more entertaining, intelligent voices in the comics cyber ghetto sharing some blog space.

Tom Spurgeon has a fun, candid interview with Shaenon Garrity up on his site. Garrity is a comic book Jack-of-all-trades who, among other things, works as the content editor for ModernTales.com, an editor for Viz, and creator of the webcomic Narbonic.

It’s a short one, but we like to keep up with Sammy. Hop on over to the UK Beat.

There’s a great Alan Moore interview up at the A.V. Club.

The thing about the underage characters… It all gets a bit silly when you’re talking about characters that are made up. Alice In Wonderland is like 150, well past the age of consent. And we have a culture over here—and I’m sure in America as well—where we go in for an awful lot of pedophilic titillation, in magazines like Barely Legal, where we’re told that these women are over 18, but just look young. But then we were told that about Traci Lords, weren’t we? And anyway, it doesn’t really matter that much, does it? The intent is still the same. Look at Britney Spears and her sexy schoolgirl imitation. What is that actually saying, and how many apparently normal men is it saying it to? We are sexualizing our children at an increasingly young age. Exposure to The Spice Girls seems to have doomed us to a Western world where every 10-year-old wants a belly-button ring and a “Porn Star” T-shirt. And we just think it’s cute! “Ah, look at them! They’re acting like little whores!”