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I am sure whatever they write will be good. I liked the book, but the failure of the movie to catch the public's attention should have said something to Warner Bros. I can't see too much separation between the Charlton characters and Watchmen, but that is probably because I am post-Watchmen. I read stories and watched the cartoons where Watchmen influenced Charlton characters.
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Even a movie that's unsuccessful by Hollywood standards can have enough fans to support a comic. They operate of completely different scales.
OTOH as has often been mentioned, the dollar to minute of entertainment ratio is also very different, and not in comics' favor, so maybe it evens out.
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Watchmen is above all a masterpiece of structure, intricate in it's detail and really hermetically sealed as a piece of literature. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by adding to the mythos or further expanding the characters because they weren't designed that way. DC's obviously doing it for the cash, but the creators should know this is a dead end. Look at how abysmal the movie turned out because Snyder didn't understand the book and just lifted "cool scenes" while destroying the structure and therefore destroying the narrative completely. It will be exactly the same idea if you just start telling more stories with these characters. Sure you can these types of stories, but there's nothing appealing about that, because there's no creative alternatives left for them within the world of Watchmen. You're just borrowing the branding.
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I think it remains the be seen whether or not there are "creative alternatives." The folks involved are paid to be creative for a reason. Most people are expecting them to fail to live up to the original, but it'll be pretty exciting to see if some of them manage to give us something awesome.
Considering all the universe rearranging going on, I see these characters as "New52" versions of Moore's Watchmen anyway.
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I may be the only person here that hasn't read watchmen, and doesn't really care to. I have the movie, but that's about it. As to the new books, no real interest, though I would buy the Len Wein black pirate story if it was in a book by itself. I may be the only person that liked Gunfire from the bloodlines or whatever story it was.
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Good article with JMS. He talks about his two mini's in this event, as well as giving thoughts on Alan Moore and his objections to it. I happen to agree with what he says here. For whatever that is worth...
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I'm the opposite. The more I read about this, the more I think it's a real shame that it's happening.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I simply cannot pass up any book with Amanda Conner or Darwyn Cooke art. The others I'm passing on.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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I think Kesel had the right idea initially. :/
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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Cooke, Connor, Jae Lee, Adam Hughes?!?! Shitsnacks on a cracker, that's some mega-talent, and some of my personal favorite artists.
I predict no lower than top 20 for all of these minis, which will make them a huge success.
That said, your old buddy MLLASH shan't be buying all these books, if any.
Can't afford 'em. And like Blacula, I don't consider WATCHMEN to be the be-all end-all of comics, though there's NO denying it IS a good read.
As for the Moore brouhaha, my opinion is if he's been paid properly for the success of his characters, then he needs to quit bitching. And I'm pretty sure he's richer than all of us combined.
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