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DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen"
eldavojohn writes "Currently DC Comics' site has a banner announcing a new series called "Before Watchmen." Unfortunately the blog pages for this new series appear to be experiencing high traffic and are unreachable. But a number of sites are breaking down these new endeavors that will be giving backstories to the seven characters and who will be creating each of those series. There's also speculation ranging from how much this must upset Alan Moore (egg frying on his forehead seems to be the popular guess) to the theory that this is simply for more movie material. There's an abundance of information from interviews released today."
I heard rumour that before Big Blue Wang there was Massive Pink Vag. Unfortunately the site is down and this can't be confirmed.
Trolling is a art,
the nightmares of the blue wang come flooding back
I can't wait to have Alan Moore sign my copy of Watchman Babies: V for Vacation!
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What are you waiting for... do it.. DO IT!
Yea, I mean, what the fuck? This site is supposed to be "News for Nerds". Has anyone ever heard of a nerd who likes comic books? That's just ridiculous, everyone knows only jocks and hipsters read comic books.....
Meanwhile, DC continues to show there is no move too desperate that they won't risk alienating their fans in the quest for the dollar.
(Note: Not multiple dollars, they'll do it for just 1....)
We're all full up on Crazy here...
Rorschach's Journal. October First, 2013: Intellectual property carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This company is milking me. I have seen its true face. The sequels are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scrape bottom, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their exploitation and mediocrity will foam up about their waists and all the producers and hacks will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no."
as if the first movie didn't suck enough. If you haven't read the comics, you should. The movie does the comic books no justice at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&ob=av3e (evil grin)
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Having collected the original 12 issues of Watchmen in my youth I certainly loved it. It expanded my own ability to digest a story with moral and societal issues in the forefront and still be entertained.
No one can write better than Moore when he is on his game.
I have mad respect for Alan Moore's genius and for the story he created with Dave Gibbons in the Watchmen, but have you seen him lately? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore Looks like Rasputin's cousin.
That said,
Please forgive us o' Lord of the Comic Book medium. Some of us want to enjoy the characters you have brought into our imaginations further than you would like us too. We *know* you could have done better than these other talented writers and aritsts. We will treat these pre-quels and the movie and all other non-Moore Watchmen writings as apocrypha, outside of the true Watchmen canon.
'nuff said
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The comic lies in the trash; falls from my fingers, is in my hand.
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Didn't really care much for Watchmen - I felt it didn't live up to expectations. Sounds like DC is thrashing around trying to find a new readership/revenue stream.
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So it's going to be called Sundialmen?
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
...like a giant, psionic squid exploding my brain.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
So If I get this right, this blog has been slashdotted before being announce on Slashdot ?
Should we call it "Before Slashdotted" ?
Marvel and DC are both struggling to retain a dwindling comic book fan-base, thrashing about with the 52 (though I am enjoying a few of those titles) and whatever Marvel has come up with when they are not busy republishing old material as e-comics or making half-assed movies. Maybe they should try and rein in their ambitions a bit - both of them.
Watchmen? Enjoyed the comics, enjoyed the movie adaptation, but I don't think it was popular enough to warrant any form of sequel or prequel...?
Watchman seems very overrated. Since when is "everyone just plays along and pretends nothing happened" a good ending? The movie was better because the behavior of the characters and the rest of the world was less inexplicably weird. If someone seems to be acting strangely, the readers deserve an explanation other than "the writer wrote it that way".
If Superman, Batman and to a lesser degree Marvel properties like Spider-Man were nearing the end of their copyright existence, rather than being in a sort of perpetual copyright, they'd be could let their characters age, and possibly even die, as they near the end of their exclusivity. They'd also be more likely to develop new flagship characters to take their place. But the current copyright regime allows the characters to just continue existing, as they are, without any new creativity.
Back in the 80's, Mayfair Games licensed the DC characters to create the DC Heroes RPG. There were three Watchmen products made (the direct contents of which I am paraphrasing and cannot recall exactly offhand): Watchmen Sourcebook, Who Watches the Watchmen, and Taking out the Trash. Here is an interview with the authors.
that is all.
bah.
You can't possibly please Alan Moore, it's just not doable.
I can't believe DC or Marvel would compromise artistic integrity for a buck.
Well done. Great use of sarcasm. When I look at my two cartons of classic comic books which are worth about nil, thanks to their reprinting of comics, I realize you can never again look at them as something which could be considered 'investment' ever again. Buy 'em if you like them, but don't expect to get anything for Issue #1 or the Special Series or even the one where ____ kills off _____. Because they'll have them all re-printed and bound for people who want to just buy the whole collection in one volume. Thanks comic companies.
So you're saying that you're annoyed because they reprinted some comics and your collection is less valuable.
Firstly, what does that have to do with artistic integrity, and secondly, why are *you* taking that line of complaint when it sounds like you bought the lot for investment purposes (or at least expecting to make money on it) rather than because you appreciated their artistic value or, you know... enjoyed them?
Even if they implied that you were going to get stinking rich by buying "Alternate Universe Spiderman Where He Has Three Nipples And Wears His Underpants On His Head Special Edition #1 (Limited to 7 1/2 copies)" for $17,000.39, then they went and printed 54,000,001 and gave them away free with TV Guide the next week, this has sod all to do with *artistic* integrity.
Thats all I can say. If they're seriously doing this, and it has nothing to do with him, then all artistic integrity is gone, and this is an obvious media whoring.
Sucks to be a writer, I guess.
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I watched the film, but was totally disapointed and bored. I'm no fan of the comic, in fact I only knew about the comic when I saw the trailer for the film. There was too many characters in the film and I didn't really care about them. The film don't introduce them to me so if you don't know them you don't care. Also there were too many characters and the film was always jumping between them with no real connection.
I think it was totally overrated and really just not a good film.
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I came to this movie because it was Watchmen, not because I wanted to, you know, watch men.
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brilliant!
I do love watchmen, dont get me wrong here. it's a good story and all. But for the love of [enter god name here], can we just go forward with a story...not backwards. I hate this. Seriously, I want to know what happens next or just give me something about the story that is not in their passed. It seems to be the thing to do now a days. Do a movie and then go in the past.
To everyone who sees nothing wrong with this, please remember the DC was supposed to return the rights to Watchmen back to Moore when the collection went out of print. Moore was the victim of the story's popularity, though, as it was one of the first graphic novels to sell enough to remain in print for a long time. I imaging Warner and DC have no intention of allowing it to be out of print at all now, following the letter of the contact but violating the spirit of the agreement.
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They all have back stories! Its in the damn comic book. I'm glad I stop reading comic books and stuck it out with hard cord porn.
"When we were just planning to do an extreme and unusual super-hero book, we thought the Charlton characters would provide us with a great line-up .. the proposal would've left a lot of them in bad shape, and DC couldn't have really used them again after what we were going to do to them without detracting from the power of what it was that we were planning Alan Moore
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More than half of Watchmen is flashbacks. How are they going to add more material for a prequel without diluting the original?
Also, in that light, it's more kinda purple.
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The opening montage was pure magic, where I notice that Alan Moore don't get a mention. 4:28: "Based on the Graphical Novel co-Created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC COMICS". Watchmen intro
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He's the only one who could do Alan Moore justice. And as for Alan Moore, yes, he has a valid point in that they are bastardizing his views, but as we've seen with the V for Vendetta and Watchmen movies, there is still a chance it can live up to what he has created.
Vertigo is full of "R" rated material. That is the only way they can do the prequel Watchmen stories in a proper way.
They do have some fantastic writers such as J. Michael Straczynski but I fear they will limit the comic to "PG" level stories. I suspect it won't be totally awful but the readers will feel it could of been so much better.
When will they have the cute plush toys in the stores to go with this? I look forward to the cuddly Plush Rorschach (tm), the inevitable animal companion dolls (Nite Owlette, Comedian Parrot) and the Kid Manhattan doll (with Kung Fu grip). Also the Silk Spectre blowup doll (over 21 purchase only). Ah Warner, don't miss a golden opportunity to tarnish something good. Actually, my original word there wasn't the seven-letter 'tarnish'.
And I found the movie to be lacking too. It was beautiful, some shots were right out of the comic book, amazing.
But it just wasn't all that good.
Face it, art is a matter of taste. Intelligent minds can disagree, one person doesn't have to be deficient to disagree with another on things like this.
Honestly, what did you expect from Zach Snyder? He makes big, dumb, pretty movies. This movie was about all you could expect from him and them maybe some. But it just didn't make the grade. Some stories just don't film well.
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TBH I don't know of any nerds under 35 who are particularly interested in comic books (some of them are interested in the spinoffs like movies and games, though.) I think comic books had their heyday in the 50s-80s, and are on the way out. Superhero comics anyway. Manga seems to be taking up some of the superhero-comic readership.
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