View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
kris
Joined: 02 Feb 2011 Posts: 97
|
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: Watchmen prequels |
|
|
“The original series of ‘Watchmen’ is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell,” Gibbons said in a statement. “However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire.”
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/02/01/watchmen-prequels-dc-dares-to-expand-on-classic/#/0
Love the picture of Alan Moore in this article.
Anyone think this is a good idea? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
jack fe
Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 865
|
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
What a horrible idea. How redundant.
This smacked of hypocrisy to me:
“For comic-book fans, it’s the masterpiece, the classic that defines what you can do in a comic book, and you go back to it at your own risk,” Zack Snyder, director of the “Watchmen” film, said last year when asked about the rumored prequels. “To go back to it in any way is tough, and the challenge of adding to that story in any way is something that you need to get right or people are going to go nuts.” _________________ myspace.com/frozymusic |
|
Back to top |
|
|
kris
Joined: 02 Feb 2011 Posts: 97
|
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hah, yeah you're probably right. AM won't have anything to do with it. Sounds like he's pretty bitter about the whole thing, he doesn't even have a copy of Watchmen in his home. ...I'll probably still buy them though, they look kind of awesome. =P |
|
Back to top |
|
|
jefflewis
Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486
|
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Sounds like a terrible idea!
It's writers and artists that make great comic books, not the characters, so if these writers and artists were any good it wouldn't matter what characters they were doing comic books about. They'd already be creating new comic books as good as Watchmen if they could. There's nothing inherently great about any of those characters. In fact, Alan Moore has often made it a point to work with lots of extremely lame characters (Swamp Thing, Marvelman, the Charleston Comics superheroes that Watchmen were based on) just to show off the fact that a good writer will make a great product regardless of the characters.
But I suppose I'm not the target market for these new Watchmen comics anyway. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
jefflewis
Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 1486
|
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
Anybody have an updated report on these Watchmen prequel comics? I still suspect they're probably not very good.
Meanwhile, I've been working every day since returning from tour on trying to finally get my Watchmen paper/book/lecture thing laid out and printed, it's been a back-burner project for so many years for me, I've got to just get it done! I am trying to learn the InDesign program, just starting from a couple of tips a friend gave me, I'm probably doing it all wrong... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
All times are GMT + 1 Hour |