DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 1, 2012 @06:48AM from the watchmen-kids dept.

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."

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Re:Greed by Fned · 2012-02-01 07:15 · Score: 3, Informative

What dollars? Wasn't the original Watchmen a huge financial bust?
What are you talking about? it did quite well, especially for a high-priced format with no established characters.
Mayfair Games already did this with DC Heroes RPG by JoshDM · 2012-02-01 07:56 · Score: 3, Informative

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.