Vivid new artwork showing six characters from Watchmen makes up the latest promo blitz for next year's highly anticipated movie.

Wired.com received this exclusive image of Ozymandias, the costumed alter ego of Adrian Veidt, the character whose secret scheme to deliver the world from Cold War tensions drives the action in the critically acclaimed Watchmen comic book series as well as the Warner Bros. movie. Actor Matthew Goode plays Veidt/Ozymandias in the movie.

To see a larger version of the Ozymandias artwork, click the image above. Similar character artwork was made available to LATimes.com's Hero Complex blog (The Comedian), EW.com's PopWatch blog (Doctor Manhattan), USAToday.com's Lifeline Live blog (Rorschach), MTV.com's Splash Page blog (Silk Spectre II) and AccessHollywood.com (Nite-Owl).

The Ozymandias artwork offers a better look at his updated costume, which thankfully looks more like Hollywood's version of Batman's gear than the purple-and-gold getup worn by the character in the comics. It also shows Bubastis, Ozymandias' genetically engineered feline companion, and bears the inscription: "A world at peace. There had to be sacrifice." There is no squid to be seen.

The Watchmen movie is set for release March 6, 2009.

Image courtesy Warner Bros.

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