Wow that’s simply horrifying.
I can almost understand DC’s (or DiDio’s or whoever) idea of folding in another pocket universe of heroes. It worked well for them several times in the past.
The difference is that they bought that stuff out of probate and no one was putting Fawcett on a pedestal.
I can also understand a lot of writers and artist wishing that they could play in the Watchmen backyard and have it be published. It is the same as working on your childhood favorites like Batman or Spider-Man except that Watchmen has been a finite and closed system for twenty years.
It was also a bone of contention between Moore and DC. So all of this has elevated Watchmen to a different category in a lot of consumers as well as creators minds.
I think that if the individual creators (and DC) had the story’s best interest at heart when creating a new chapter it could work. I probably would not want to see prequels showing a happy functional super team if only because we all know how poorly it ends up. I don’t think that you could sustain that illusion especially through rose colored glasses. Considering how that is the mainstay for superhero comics I am also not sure how long a run of vignettes with glimpses into characters’ darker frailties could be sustained.
I guess I am on the same fence as when I heard that they were making a Watchmen movie in the first place. Hoping for a great adaption but fearing for the opposite.
I really like when people are expressing their opinion and thought. So I like the way you are writing
Thanks, I guess.