"Watchmen 2: The Cashing In"
"Watchmen 3: Stomping it into your face for more profit"
"Watchmen 4: JJ Abrams re-envisions the classic Watchmen into an edgy and hip new version"
"Pocke****chmen: cute, pre-pubescent versions of your favorite Watchmen characters living together in Urbansprawlland"
In an interview in the 80s, Moore said that If the original book goes out of print for a year, the copyrights revert back to Moore and Gibbons, but DC will never let that happen.
I think the point he's trying to make is that the story has been told, and it was told well... it's hard to imagine you could add anything to it to improve it, so it seems like a waste of time.
Part of this beyond just wanting to make money off an established name could be to keep the copyright for the characters. I'm certainly no expert, but isn't there time limit for copyright before someone else could come along and use them or do the rights revert back to the original creators (Moore for the story and concept and Gibbons for the images).
It would have been cooler if they would have gone even farther back to the original Watchmen instead of just going far enough to be before the events in Watchmen, and rehashing the same characters.
Still, 4 issues of Rorschach and 6 of The Comedian (in addition to the 5 other characters and their stories) sounds good to me.
Part of me cringes at the very suggestion of the idea. It just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. On the other hand, I think it's hard to read Watchmen without wanting to know more about the characters' various adventures before the events of the book.
Well, at least they're only prequels. If you don't like em, don't read em. The primary narrative won't change in the slightest. You'll just know a bunch of background stuff that really wasn't necessary in making Watchmen so amazing to read. And you'll be several bucks short.
1. This will be a prequel, so all the characters will be alive.
2. I quite liked Ozymandias and Nite Owl II. They are two faces of the deconstructed modern Batman (with Rorschach being the third). If they come in conflict that could be quite interesting. Two thirds of one of the best (if not THE best) character in comics is more than enough to hold my attention.
3. The world itself was quite fascinating. 1980's with Nixon in charge? Just over the brink of war with USSR at it's peak? I would read a comic based just on that.
4. If they do a sequel and not a prequel, they could easily add a bunch of other heroes. Some that are new or that have successfully hid from the Comedian and Ozymandias.
5. What character interests you that they killed? The Comedian? Or do you know something about the prequels?
I found the The Comedian really interesting, obviously not entirely likeable but he was consistent. I was too young at the time to really understand the Nixon/USSR thing and can't say I'm a graphic novel fan (though I did like V for Vendetta, but only after seeing the movie).
Rorschach was the next most interesting, Nite Owl was boring and the girl was just damned annoying and pointless. Probably the back story would be more interesting to me, sacrilege?
I disagree. I would love to know more about what happened to Nite Owl, and how they dealt with Ozymandias after the "squid event". Or hear about some of Nite Owl's and Rorschach's early adventures. These are fun characters that live in a dynamic world, and when one story ends, you can reuse the same characters in another, loosely connected story.
For example, The Killing Joke story has ended, and it was excellent. Does that mean that no more Batman stories should be told?
And they killed off the only interesting character right at the start. Maybe you needed to read it when it was first released, but I don't get the hype over it.
crom99Feb 2, 2012Buried
If Alan Moore was dead, he'd be turning over in his grave.
zulmericronxFeb 1, 2012Buried
I just don't see the need for this. 34 issues over 6 miniseries, an epilogue and a pirate spin off story? That just seems like a cash grab.
greatsunjesterFeb 2, 2012Buried
"Watchmen 2: The Cashing In"
"Watchmen 3: Stomping it into your face for more profit"
"Watchmen 4: JJ Abrams re-envisions the classic Watchmen into an edgy and hip new version"
"Pocke****chmen: cute, pre-pubescent versions of your favorite Watchmen characters living together in Urbansprawlland"
youaretooFeb 2, 2012Buried
In an interview in the 80s, Moore said that If the original book goes out of print for a year, the copyrights revert back to Moore and Gibbons, but DC will never let that happen.
leodinFeb 2, 2012Buried
I think the point he's trying to make is that the story has been told, and it was told well... it's hard to imagine you could add anything to it to improve it, so it seems like a waste of time.
macparrotFeb 1, 2012Buried
Part of this beyond just wanting to make money off an established name could be to keep the copyright for the characters. I'm certainly no expert, but isn't there time limit for copyright before someone else could come along and use them or do the rights revert back to the original creators (Moore for the story and concept and Gibbons for the images).
igorunchainedFeb 2, 2012Buried
It would have been cooler if they would have gone even farther back to the original Watchmen instead of just going far enough to be before the events in Watchmen, and rehashing the same characters.
Still, 4 issues of Rorschach and 6 of The Comedian (in addition to the 5 other characters and their stories) sounds good to me.
leodinFeb 2, 2012Buried
Part of me cringes at the very suggestion of the idea. It just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. On the other hand, I think it's hard to read Watchmen without wanting to know more about the characters' various adventures before the events of the book.
RujabesFeb 2, 2012Buried
Well, at least they're only prequels. If you don't like em, don't read em. The primary narrative won't change in the slightest. You'll just know a bunch of background stuff that really wasn't necessary in making Watchmen so amazing to read. And you'll be several bucks short.
The covers look great though, I'll admit.
tylorlilesFeb 2, 2012Buried
as long as malin ackerman is silk spectre we are good. gotta have the token hottie right?
elimgarakFeb 2, 2012Buried
1. This will be a prequel, so all the characters will be alive.
2. I quite liked Ozymandias and Nite Owl II. They are two faces of the deconstructed modern Batman (with Rorschach being the third). If they come in conflict that could be quite interesting. Two thirds of one of the best (if not THE best) character in comics is more than enough to hold my attention.
3. The world itself was quite fascinating. 1980's with Nixon in charge? Just over the brink of war with USSR at it's peak? I would read a comic based just on that.
4. If they do a sequel and not a prequel, they could easily add a bunch of other heroes. Some that are new or that have successfully hid from the Comedian and Ozymandias.
5. What character interests you that they killed? The Comedian? Or do you know something about the prequels?
darwininmotionFeb 2, 2012Buried
I found the The Comedian really interesting, obviously not entirely likeable but he was consistent. I was too young at the time to really understand the Nixon/USSR thing and can't say I'm a graphic novel fan (though I did like V for Vendetta, but only after seeing the movie).
Rorschach was the next most interesting, Nite Owl was boring and the girl was just damned annoying and pointless. Probably the back story would be more interesting to me, sacrilege?
kangouliusFeb 2, 2012Buried
much less blue man penis in this one please.
timedalkatFeb 1, 2012Buried
Love ya Alan Moore, but.......
f**k yeah.
elimgarakFeb 2, 2012Buried
I disagree. I would love to know more about what happened to Nite Owl, and how they dealt with Ozymandias after the "squid event". Or hear about some of Nite Owl's and Rorschach's early adventures. These are fun characters that live in a dynamic world, and when one story ends, you can reuse the same characters in another, loosely connected story.
For example, The Killing Joke story has ended, and it was excellent. Does that mean that no more Batman stories should be told?
darwininmotionFeb 2, 2012Buried
And they killed off the only interesting character right at the start. Maybe you needed to read it when it was first released, but I don't get the hype over it.
trythinking1stFeb 2, 2012Buried
with boobs!
tylorlilesFeb 2, 2012Buried
as long as malin ackerman is silk spectre we are good. gotta have the token hottie right?