Watchmen 2?!

Thundermatts wrote:

Aussiemandias wrote:
All I saw was a bunch of people that have said they would like a much loved book left alone. I think they're entitled to it. Watchmen is a little bit different to a lot of stuff out there in the world of comics. If you can't see that and can't see why the possibility of other creators touching it would upset people who love the book then I guess you never will.

As for the Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein examples, I think you'll find that the continued use of those characters by other writers happened well after the original writers had left this world and no longer had control of their characters.

I meant to school you days ago, but it slipped my mind until now. But no, that's not true. J.M Barrie wrote a short story featuring Holmes in 1893. mark Twain featured him in a story in 1902. The list goes on and on. Keep in mind that Doyle himself owned the character, as opposed to Watchmen, which is owned by DC, not the writer. So, you criticize someone else later in this thread for bringing up moot points, but it seems you've been the worse offender.

Thundermatts wrote:Look, if you're more okay with genocide than comic characters being used by the people who own them, thats your problem.

BlueMaxx wrote:And the Lord looked down upon the DC Universe and thus sayeth, "Know me and my ways."

The Universe was flooded and giant psi-squid toppled empires for Him and His Love.

BlueMaxx wrote:

Tomer Soiker wrote:http://watchmex.wikia.com/wiki/What_Is_WatchmeX

They basically took a Question cover and changed it.


I've heard news that this will be difficult to get off the ground. But who knows.

Just saw this a couple nights ago, and Groening made a point about Moore through his dialogue. He changed Radioactive Man by taking away his powers and making him a heroine addict.


Little Lulu will grow up to be a high-class call-girl whose series ends with her being suicided by a corrupt senator in a story of conspiracy.

shark6495 wrote:

BlueMaxx wrote:
Just saw this a couple nights ago, and Groening made a point about Moore through his dialogue. He changed Radioactive Man by taking away his powers and making him a heroine addict.

superdoug wrote:
Actually, Matt Groenig hasn't written an episode himself since probably the first season.

deadbolt85 wrote:If they do end up doing a spinoff/sequel, which I hope they don't, by the by, but if they do make one, I'd like a Minutemen-centric prequel.

Alan Moore, whose tumultuous relationship with DC Comics is legendary, claims the publisher offered this week to return the rights to his most famous creation -- in exchange for a concession.

“They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels,” Moore told Underwire today. "So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked. But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms."

Rumors circulated earlier this year that the departure of Paul Levitz as president and publisher of DC cleared any in-house obstacles to further use of the Watchmen characters. However, Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee tell Underwire the company "would only revisit these iconic characters if the creative vision of any proposed new stories matched the quality set by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons nearly 25 years ago, and our first discussion on any of this would naturally be with the creators themselves."

Moore, who created the groundbreaking 1986 miniseries with Gibbons, stopped working for DC in 1989 following disputes about Watchmen royalties and a proposed age-rating system. When WildStorm, which published Moore's America's Best Comics line, was sold to DC in 1998, the writer was assured of an editorial firewall protecting him from the parent company's interference. However, there were still conflicts, most infamously the pulping of The Legion of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5, which contained an authentic vintage advertisement for the Marvel-brand douche.

Moore, who has refused royalties from film adaptations of his work, says he no longer even has a copy of Watchmen in his house. "The comics world has lots of unpleasant connections," he tells Underwire, "when I think back over it, many of them to do with Watchmen."