Watchmen 2: Electric Boogaloo

The Mike · Oct 21, 2011

Bleeding Cool said:
A couple of years ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics was planning to return to Watchmen to tell new stories. Dave Gibbons would be involved as well as many of DC's brightest stars.

The very concept was pooh-poohed and Bleeding Cool was accused to making the whole thing up, by some. Until Alan Moore confirmed that he had been approached to, if nothing else, acquiesce to the project, in return for subsequently being granted the ownership rights to Watchmen that he had once sought, at a later date. He turned the idea down, and the media attention seemed to kill the project.

For a while...

I was told before New York Comic Con that it might be back on and that DC were drawing up a wishlist of creators for a series of Watchmen prequel comics...Well I've now heard a lot more. Darwyn Cooke's name is at the very top, linked to drawing two mini-series and writing another, followed by the likes of JMS, JG Jones, Andy Kubert and Brian Azzarello. Whether or not they have been approached, I don't know, and no one's talking, but it gives you an idea of the scale. I would also expect Dave Gibbons and John Higgins to be involved in some way.

I've also been told that there's a creating meeting happening this week and the project has a secret name, "Panic Room" - as in that's where the creators will need to go with the news breaks...

DC declined to comment. Just as he did last time, Dave Gibbons would only say "hurm".

I remember reading that one of the 52 universe of the Multiverse was the Watchmen universe but I had hoped that's where this project stopped.

thenammagazine · Oct 21, 2011

WOW, this has the potential for great ass suckage. :lol

karamazov80 · Oct 21, 2011

For ____'s sake.

cokebabies · Oct 21, 2011

If it doesn't involve Rorshach and Night Owl raising money to save Miracles, I'm not interested.

IrishJedi · Oct 21, 2011

If this happens, Dan Didio should be strung up.

And if I ever see any official new WATCHMEN art by Jim Lee or Rob Liefeld I might just have to go on a homicidal rampage.

The Mike · Oct 21, 2011

Like this:

or this:

I guarantee you that if it happens they'll give a book to Jim Lee, Ivan Reis, Rob Liefeld and all the other heavy hitters at the New 52. Not just Cooke or Kubert.

darthviper107 · Oct 21, 2011

Makes me sad we never got the Hot Toys Rorschach

Anyways--there shouldn't be any more watchmen, it's a self contained story.

IrishJedi · Oct 21, 2011

I like this response on the Bleeding Cool boards:

Surely the only people appropriate for a petty cash grab that serves mostly to piss off Alan Moore are Geoff Johns and/or Grant Morrison.

Hard to argue with that, actually. They should've mentioned Jim Lee too, though.

The Mike · Oct 21, 2011

Oh my God if they include Morrison I might put a fist through a wall. Please keep him away from Dr. Manhattan.

IrishJedi · Oct 21, 2011

The Mike said:
Oh my God if they include Morrison I might put a fist through a wall. Please keep him away from Dr. Manhattan.

You KNOW Morrison would be all over this. Hell, he's almost halfway there with some of the "Multiversity" business he's working on. One of them, PAX AMERICANA is essentially a modern political 'remake' of WATCHMEN with the Charlton characters the characters were originally based on. If this WATCHMEN thing materializes, I'd be stunned if he wasn't attached to it as well. :monkey4

Captain Britain · Oct 21, 2011

Just to play devil's advocate, is the original story so precious and special that no one can ever be allowed to write another? I know the Watchmen universe is special but I always thought the story itself lagged behind the characters and concepts. I just wonder if we're being a bit too reverential. Of course, any continuation/ prequel/ whatever would have to be of spectacular quality.

cokebabies · Oct 21, 2011

Captain Britain said:
Just to play devil's advocate, is the original story so precious and special that no one can ever be allowed to write another?

Yes .

xYx · Oct 21, 2011

Like it wasn't bad enough that the DCnU looks like Wildstorm & decades of history flushed down the toilet, now this?

thenammagazine · Oct 21, 2011

Captain Britain said:
Just to play devil's advocate, is the original story so precious and special that no one can ever be allowed to write another? I know the Watchmen universe is special but I always thought the story itself lagged behind the characters and concepts. I just wonder if we're being a bit too reverential. Of course, any continuation/ prequel/ whatever would have to be of spectacular quality.

Essentially yes. It was written, illustrated and fully intended to be nothing more than what it was.

IrishJedi · Oct 21, 2011

The original WATCHMEN is a true modern masterpiece. One of the very few. To add a "2" after it with a sequel that has almost zero chance of measuring up would be a shame.

Look at the sequel to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, which was even from the same original creators. It was so horrid that people (like myself) can't be brought to purchase the Absolute collection now because that poop is also included.

Do not tarnish WATCHMEN the same way, DC. :nono

karamazov80 · Oct 21, 2011

It would be the comic equivalent of some modern, reasonably well-known and reasonably successful filmmaker deciding to make a sequel to Citizen Kane. It could be done fairly well, and it could make money, but it would still be a cheap money grab that would at some level cheapen the legacy of the franchise. I think Watchmen deserves better. But then, nothing seems sacred anymore. . .

Devil_666 · Oct 21, 2011

You know an idea is bad when someone like myself (who's only seen the movie) knows it will suck if it happens. :lol

Sweet Rabbit · Oct 21, 2011

I'll go out & kick puppies if DC does this to the watchmen

The Mike · Oct 21, 2011

Captain Britain said:
Just to play devil's advocate, is the original story so precious and special that no one can ever be allowed to write another?

It was lightning in a bottle. A comic series that transcended the genre decades before the rest of the industry caught up. It would be hard enough to produce a sequel or prequel with Alan Moore involved because without it'd be Morrison or Johns doing their best dark, brooding Moore impression and come off horrifically.

DiFabio · Oct 21, 2011

darthviper107 said:
Makes me sad we never got the Hot Toys Rorschach.

RIP

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