“ You know what? Forget that Watchmen is a lone story that should be left alone. Forget even Alan More complaining. Though look at one a good point he makes. Just look at how DC is going back to a dense 20 year old book it never knew how to deal with instead of dealing with their current characters. DC already had flooded the market with 52 titles a month plus. Now they’re tossing seven more on. Why not include these artists in their reboot? They’re not even done with the first year of that. They’re already swapping writers and canceling books! Why didn’t they plant out the relaunch tighter and with better creative teams than whoever Bob Harras has in his Rolodex? These are the people what should have been launching the new DC number ones, not digging up Watchmen for new material. And it does seem for DC, the future is the past, specifically 1986 for Watchmen and 1996 Wildstorm for the regular DCU. Maybe they should wake up and make books for 2012. Maybe they should heaven forbid try making books for new and different audiences instead of trying to sink into the grim and gritty trend and try to appeal to fanboys. Actually, forget 1986. DC is stuck in the early 1990s Image mindset. The 1990s were all about trying to recapture Watchmen’s grim and gritty tone.. and it failed miserably. It wasn’t the grim and gritty tone that made Watchmen good. It was the damn good and layered storytelling. Many comics creators in the 1990s didn’t get this and just made everything dark and ‘edgy’. DC in 2011 still hasn’t learned this. Geez. The bastards even named their Wildstorm lite and Vertigo lite DC lines DC Dark and DC Edge. That’s how freaking transparent they are. So are these Watchmen books getting tossed into DC Dark or DC Edge? Cause those books already have two Comedian-esue soldier of fortune titles. And they just put Rob Liefeld on both of those, Deathstroke and Grifter. Maybe they should have put Rob Liefeld on the Comedian too. DC obviously thinks fans want Rob Liefeld. They put him on three freaking titles. Why not Watchmen? Obviously, based on this image, fans have been clamoring for that for years.
It’s official: DC announces Before Watchmen | The Beat
