Watchmen (serious spoilers!)

[jjreason]

I'll give it a chance. I've enjoyed the quasi-Golden Age productions in both the current Cap comics & movies & hope they attempt a similar feel for these stories.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I'll check it out with an open mind, simply because too many things I was prepared to mock, write off, or declare utter shit turned out to be good, even great.

[Diabolical]

Ed Brubaker via Facebook:

If I ran DC I wouldn't be doing Watchmen prequels, but that doesn't mean they won't be good comics.

Anyone morally outraged about it, though, had better stop reading Batman or Superman or any other superhero comic.

Ones that aren't being done by their original creators. The whole history of mainstream comics is expanding on preexisting characters.

Dammit. I had a feeling there was something up with this whole owl storyline in Batman.
I even mentioned it somewhere, "What comic did you buy this week?" maybe...

[anarky]

I could argue that Batman, Superman, et al, were not intended as one-off novels. Watchmen was.

Many of the creators of the other books were quite fine with them being expanded upon by other creators. Even Siegel and Schuster only wanted a slice of the very large pie.

[jjreason]

I wonder what Alan Moore makes of it. If he doesn't want it to happen, he hasn't been very vocal about that - either that or you gay fags haven't linked me to anything confirming he has been & doesn't want it. Shame on all of you if that's the case.

EDITED: checked around & found nothing from Moore - but holy fuck look at this. Sold.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... s/?a=51860

[Rollo Tomassi]

Who gives a fuck what Alan Moore thinks anyway? That doucher whines about everything and insults people constantly, and every single thing he's ever written has been derivative of some other character or concept, yet he has the nuggets to bitch about others cribbing his shit. Fuck that homeless asshat.

[anarky]

Well, it looks like it's official. Meh.

Len Wein? The guy who created Wolverine and most of the all-new, all-different X-Men? They're making this tough to boycott.

Then again, I don't read any new DC superhero stuff anymore, so it's not exactly a boycott for me.

[Rollo Tomassi]

It makes it easier for me to boycott when they decide to carpet bomb the market when they do shit like this. One book wasn't good enough? They have to do SEVEN books all at the same time?! Fuck you and your cash grab DC. I'll read it when I find it in the quarter bins next year.

Edit. The comments over at CBR. #33 is QOTD.
"Alan Moore is rolling in his grave."

That gave me coughing fits I was laughing so hard.

[anarky]

Watchmen sequels without Alan Moore will be like a Short Circuit without... whoever was responsible for Short Circuit. Sure, people will check it out. But it won't last long in the public consciousness, whereas the original is one of the defining moments of modern culture.

Yes, Short Circuit. With the awesome funny robot. Because fuck you is why!

[Rollo Tomassi]

"There's never been a sequel to Moby Dick as far as I know." -Alan Moore

"I've just written a wonderful children's story. Hopefully, a dirty homeless man will turn one of my protagonists into a dirty cock gargling cum dumpster filthy slut a hundred years from now." -J.M. Barrie

"Rule 34, bitch." -Alan Moore

[vynsane]

there is a prequel to Moby Dick, though. it's called Moby Vagina.

[Rollo Tomassi]

there is a prequel to Moby Dick, though. it's called Moby Vagina.

I believe you're thinking of Moldy Vagina. The biography of Margaret Thatcher they turned into the film The Iron Lady. (Because the original title didn't score well with test audiences)

[anarky]

The real reason they didn't make a sequel to Moby-Dick: They were afraid pre-orders would drop by 50%, and they couldn't justify the cost of printing just 14 copies.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I just saw the cover of the Dr. Manhattan book, and it looks like Manhattan is grabbing Laurie by the shoulders and giving her the business from behind.

[anarky]

Oh, Adam Hughes, you're a damned fine artist, but you get more cheesecake with every image you draw.

You'll never top this, though. Except maybe with one of your Baroness pics.