RE: [The Unique Geek] Re: Watchmen prequel covers

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:38:44 -0800

It's not that JMS is against them, it's two things:

1) He quits most projects halfway through. He's got a history of doing this.
2) Doing prequels for Watchman is just a bad idea.  Not specific to JMS, just a bad idea all the way around.


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Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: Watchmen prequel covers
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, February 02, 2012 1:45 pm
To: [email protected]

If MJS is against them, why did he agree to do them? He should have had that in his contract.

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From: Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]>
To: The Unique Geek <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 13:04:40 GMT+00:00
Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: Watchmen prequel covers

First off, adding Van's comment which got put into another thread:
>>My prediction is that J. Michael Straczynski will quit each mini-series halfway through.<<


After suddenly realizing, halfway through, that he is morally outraged
and opposed to the whole idea of doing them without Moore.

--Van

Now my comment:

You notice that both of JMS's books are only four issues? Doesn't he
normally make it to about 5 or 6 before he quits? ;)

Personally, I don't have a problem with this. If this fails, it
doesn't sully the repuation or the quality of Watchmen (whatever one
may think of it, and I know opinions vary greatly on that series). I
mean, I don't think the Dark Knight Strikes Again hurt the rep of Dark
Knight Returns, and that was by the same creator, even.

Right now, the Dawryn Cooke Minutemen and the Len Weid/Jae Lee
Ozymandias books are the ones which have my interest. But I taking a
more cautious, "wait and see" approach with these comics.


On Feb 1, 6:41 pm, Michael Bailey wrote:
> I am just curious as to why the heck they would do this now?  Is DC so
> behind the curve that they wait 3 years AFTER the movie comes out to
> produce a new series of books about the characters?
>
> To me the story is great on its own.  This isn't a world that needs further
> exploration.  If I wanted to read about Rorshach and Nite Owl before the
> events of WATCHMEN I would read old Blue Beetle and Question stories.
>
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:45 PM, wrote:
> >  My prediction is that J. Michael Straczynski will quit each mini-series
> > halfway through.
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> > The Irredeemable Shag
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