A lot of people who have read 'Watchmen' actually prefer the 'Tales of the Black Freighter'. And the comic-within-a-comic is really very very good indeed.
If you know nothing about it, here's a description from Watchmen Wiki:
"Tales of the Black Freighter is a comic book within the Watchmen universe, an example of post-modern Metafiction and comic-within-a-comic that also serves as a foil for the main plot. Issues 23 and 24, comprising the story Marooned, are included within Watchmen itself. They are read by a teenage boy named Bernie, who sits outside a newsstand through all his appearances.
...A pirate comic book was conceived by Moore because he and Gibbons thought that since the inhabitants of the Watchmen universe experience superheroes in real life, "they probably wouldn't be at all interested in superhero comics." Gibbons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed because he is "a big Brecht fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" from Brecht's Threepenny Opera."
Another good description:
"The comic-within-a-comic tells the tale of a castaway's mental and physical deterioration and damnation as he tries to intercept a ghost freighter headed for his hometown."
For the movie, they've turned the story into a cartoon. The original plan was to insert it into the film at key points, which would have been amazing. Rumours are that it will still happen like this on the DVD - but to include it in the theatrical release would have made the whole thing just too darn long.
Here is the trailer for the Tales of the Black Freighter, which is going straight to DVD (also on the DVD will be some kind of version of the 'Under the Hood' segments by Hollis Mason - not sure how they'll do those). The pirate cartoon is voiced by the big man himself, Gerard Butler...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_s5K55bAz0
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