surfdog2000:

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theavc:

Because Alan Moore isn’t mad enough, DC Comics is launching a series of Watchmen prequels about each character’s backstory. Which, yes, okay, we understand, but some pretty talented people are attached to the project. Will you read them, or stand in solidarity with Moore?

“Of course, while Moore and his many acolytes certainly have the right to feel protective of his work, as participating writer J. Michael Straczynski points out in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Moore himself has spent much of his career building on characters he didn’t create either—including Swamp Thing, Batman, everyone in Lost Girls and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and even the characters that the Watchmen themselves were originally based on—so yes, maybe he does, as Straczynski asserts, “lose a little of the moral high ground.” Granted, that still doesn’t mean this idea isn’t wholly unnecessary, likely doomed to take what was fascinating in context and subtext and render it redundant and pedestrian by isolating it and spelling it out, and above all, offer yet more evidence that every industry would prefer to cannibalize an older good idea than take a risk on a new one. And yet, on the other hand, you don’t have to read them.”

hm

I stand in the “I just won’t read them” crowd.

it WILL be interesting to watch DC get through this whole maxiseries without mentioning Moore’s name

“THIRTY-FIVE NEW ISSUES OF WATCHMEN!A PREQUEL CONTINUATION OF THE LANDMARK GAME-CHANGING GRAPHIC NOVEL MASTERPIECE BY some guy”

but yeah, regardless of where you stand on the original, these are probably gonna be awful

Guys why don’t we just read the comics when they come out and decide for ourselves and ourselves alone whether or not they are awful instead of mobbing together like some giant brainless hate slug who would rather see something like this fail than actually give it a chance.

I am a strong proponent of not jumping on trash wagons because I’d rather figure things out for myself than listen to a bunch of people I don’t know who have also not seen/heard/read something.

mad don’t take this away from me

being a brainless hate slug is all i have left

So yeah, Moore wrote for characters he didn’t come up with like Batman and yeah, the Watchmen characters are based on characters that DC already owned, but Watchmen (the version Moore made) was written to be its own standalone thing. I don’t think we necessarily need a prequel to Watchmen because everything we needed to know about the characters’ histories was already written into Watchmen.

I can see how doing prequels make sense from a business standpoint because you have these characters that fans already know and you can expand on them, but given Watchmen as it currently exists, it’s not necessary.

DC’s money and staff would have been better suited to bringing out new things. So far DC has refreshed all their titles, reset all their universes, rebooted their logo and now they’re revisiting Watchmen. About the only thing they’re not doing is something new.