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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.
reblogging for mynameismad’s comment.
