Electricity Verifies New Watchmen Comics

35-part Before Watchmen due this summerThe storm continues to be approaching for a few years, however it broke yesterday with Electricity announcing that Alan Moore's legendary graphic novel Watchmen would be to finally obtain the franchise treatment. It isn't strictly movie news (although you will find possible implications) but we thought you may be interested...The storyline goes back to some change of regime at Electricity this year. Regardless of the company's very public falling-by helping cover their the irascible Moore, DC's mind honcho Paul Levitz was always adamant that Watchmen, a minimum of in publications form, was sacred ground to not be penetrated. When Levitz walked lower, however, Watchmen was no more sequestered by in-house defenders, with Zack Snyder's movie moving it towards the status of DC's all-time bestseller, the business's senior vice-leader Serta DiDio made an broadened Watchmen world a dog project.Much speculation and rumour adopted (largely driven through the alarmist fans at Bleeding Awesome), however the result works out to become seven inter-connected prequel comic small-series, released weekly underneath the banner Before Watchmen, beginning this summer time.John Azzarello (100 Bullets, Hellblazer) is writing the 4-part Rorschach and also the six-part Comedian.J Michael Straczynski (Amazing Spider-Guy, Thor) will get four-part shots at Dr Manhattan and Nite Owl.Darwyn Cooke (Catwoman, New Frontier) is behind the 4-problem Silk Spectre and also the six-problem Minutemen. And Watchmen's original editor Len Wein is supplying six issues of Ozymandias. Each problem will contain two pages of the new sailing story Curse From The Crimson Corsair (again by Wein), and there will be also a multi-written Before Watchmen: Epilogue.Original Watchmen artist Dork Gibbons is cited in DC's pr release very carefully wanting the project well. Moore though, in keeping with form, was quick to denounce it, telling the NY Occasions, "It's totally shameless. I am inclined to take this latest development as confirmation that [Electricity] continue to be apparently determined by ideas which i had two-and-a-half decades ago. I'm not going money Among the finest it to not happen."A defensive Straczynski with confidence hit back, calling Moore's position "absolutely understandable and deeply problematic." He stated that "the Watchmencharacters were versions on pre-existing figures produced for that Charleton Comics world.""So far as I understand, there were not many prequels or sequels to Moby Dick," sniffed Moore. ButMoore has spent a lot of the final decade writing The League Of Remarkable Gentlemen (using figures produced by Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, HG Wells, H Driver Haggard and so forth), and Lost Women (a pornographic team-from Oz's Dorothy, Wonderland's Alice and Peter Pan's Wendy). Pot? Kettle?"I do not hear Alan recommending that nobody apart from Shuster and Siegel must have been permitted to create Superman," states Straczynski. "Certainly Alan themself did this as he was triggered to create Swamp Factor, a seminal comics character produced by Len Wein.The entire reason for getting great figures may be the chance to understand more about them deeper. That Electricity permitted these figures to sit down on the shelf for more than 2 decades like a show of respect is salutary, but there comes a period when good figures need to re-go into the world.""It's our responsibility as marketers to locate new methods to keep our figures relevant," stated Didio. ""Collaborative storytelling is exactly what keeps these imaginary galaxies fresh."DC's pr release calls Before Watchmen "As long awaited because it is questionable." Questionable? You do not say. Provide us with your ideas within the comments below.[[Poll624]]