Ça y est c'est officialisé, il y aura bien 7 mini séries en guise de prélude à
Watchmen, le projet s'intitule judicieusement
Before Watchmen.
- RORSCHACH (4 numéros) – Scénariste: Brian Azzarello. Dessinateur: Lee Bermejo
- MINUTEMEN (6 numéros) – Scénariste/Dessinateur: Darwyn Cooke
- COMEDIAN (6 numéros) – Scénariste: Brian Azzarello. Dessinateur: J.G. Jones
- DR. MANHATTAN (4 numéros) – Scénariste: J. Michael Straczynski. Dessinateur: Adam Hughes
- NITE OWL (4 numéros) – Scénariste: J. Michael Straczynski. Dessinateurs: Andy and Joe Kubert
- OZYMANDIAS (6 numéros) – Scénariste: Len Wein. Dessinateur: Jae Lee
- SILK SPECTRE (4 numéros) – Scénariste: Darwyn Cooke. Dessinateur: Amanda Conner
Plus de détails ainsi que le visuel des couvertures par iciJ'annonce d'ores et déjà que je me les procurerai, dans la honte et le déni, mais ces comics seront miens.
La réaction de Moore pour le New York Times
NY Times a écrit :“I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.” [...]
While he was unaware of DC’s specific plans for Before Watchmen, Mr. Moore said he has over the years resisted overtures from the publisher to approve sequel or prequel projects.
Still, Mr. Moore said he was unlikely to stand in the way of Before Watchmen or to fight the project in court, where he said DC Comics would meet him with an “infinite battery of lawyers.”
“I don’t want money,” he said. “What I want is for this not to happen.”
Mr. Gibbons does not share those feelings. Though he is not participating in Before Watchmen, he said in a statement: “The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire.”
But Mr. Moore was unconvinced, saying that the endeavor only weakened the argument that comics were an authentic form of literature.
“As far as I know,” he said, “there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to ‘Moby-Dick.’ ”
