And today, the final installment of the Watchmen Video Journal comes our way with a look at the Minutemen, the progenitors of the Watchmen and the costumed vigilante movement.

What you have to understand, in case you weren’t a Watchmen reader, is that the Watchmen are not unique to the story’s continuity.  Back in the 1940s, there was a group of costumed superheroes called the Minutemen.  They did much the same things the Watchmen did in the more modern era, specifically running around in costumes and capturing bad guys.

It’s especially noteworthy to pay attention to the concept of “antiquated costume design methods” mentioned in the clip. There’s actually a segment where stars are manually ironed onto a cape, which is a downright reliquated method of costuming, but is oddly appropriate for costumes made in a 1940s setting.  It’s just one more bullet point on that big list marked “attention to detail”, and you can count on that phrase being part of lots of reviews on this movie when it finally makes its emergence.