Watchmen 2…No Alan Moore?

Written By Jeff Nau

Only one thing could be better than making a sequel to one of the greatest graphic novels ever — and that is making a sequel to one of the greatest graphic novels ever without the original creator Alan Moore involved…

Rightly suspicious of Hollywood’s reputation for screwing up comic book adaptations, Moore would apparently rather have his beard plucked one hair at a time than have anything to do with the 2009 Zack Snyder-directed film (who bears a striking resemblance to our writer Paul Nyhart). And yet rumors persist, so much so that you begin to think it could be true.

Now the minds behind the somewhat-questionable relaunch of DC’s big 52 are planning a return to post-apocalyptic Earth (and maybe Mars) are also some of the biggest names in comics — Dave Gibbons (who drew and lettered the 1986 original comic), longtime DC Comics artist and editor Andy Kubert, Darwyn Cooke (behind the re-vamped Catwoman),among them.

According to Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool, “Indeed I am now told that there will be four Watchmen miniseries, all prequels. Working off an over-arching uber-plot by Darwyn, who will be writing and drawing on a book or two.”

So there you go. I guess no matter how much effort Alan Moore put into the original, no matter how much the creation and conception of Watchmen is to him, DC owns Watchmen, and they decide what happens to it.

There is a somewhat pleasant little caveat to all of this — namely that Johnston himself added the following tidbit:“a decent sized chunk of DC is not on board for this. That they love Watchmen as it is, and view these prequel mini-series as diluting that.”

Based on their reboot of Starfire, which experienced a backlash as well, (though obviously we would never equate Starfire with Watchmen), DC, well, is starting to sound like they really don’t give a sh*t about longtime, hard-core fans who’ve invested so much time in both universes. Should we forgive and forget and just hope it never happens? Or encourage some open rebellion amongst that ‘decent chunk’, Occupy Wall Street-style?

(via io9)

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