COMICS: Ozymandias, Comedian & Dr. Manhattan BEFORE WATCHMEN Covers

COMICS: Ozymandias, Comedian & Dr. Manhattan BEFORE WATCHMEN Covers

We have already seen Nite Owl, now check out three more covers for DC's controversial Watchemn prequels featuring Ozy doing a spot of yoga, Comedian looking nasty and Dr M getting to grips with Silk Specter..

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By MarkCassidy - Feb 01, 2012 05:02 AM EST
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As you can see the covers are all of varying size, we will update when possible. So that just leaves Rorschach, Minutemen and Silk Specter I guess (I assume she will be getting her own cover). In the meantime here are some quotes from an unsurprisingly pissed off Alan Moore.

Via JoBlo

Alan Moore is of course not pleased, responding to DC's plan by calling it "completely shameless. 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.” He then concluded his thoughts by stressing his concern that the publishing of these prequels "only [weakens] 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.'


Is Moore going a bit far or do you agree with him? Are you looking forward to these prequels? Sound off below.







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StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 2/1/2012, 6:12 AM
The comedian looks very creepy. The Dr.Manhattan cover looks AMAZING, I love Hughes style. I detest the artstyle of Jae Lee, they look like they are melting
JDUKE25
JDUKE25 - 2/1/2012, 6:18 AM
The Ozymandias cover looks pretty cool.
TheGreenRanger
TheGreenRanger - 2/1/2012, 6:35 AM
WoW! didnt know that The Comedian was originally the gimp in Pulp Fiction. What the hell?!
Denn1s
Denn1s - 2/1/2012, 6:38 AM
ok moby dick hadn't any sequels but many other classic stories such as dracula for example, did have numerous continuations. actually moore expands on classic literature books by using their characters for the league of extraordinary gentlemen. in that vein, only stan lee must write spiderman just as vernes wrote 20.000 leagues under the sea, and moore must not use captain nemo for his books. bollocks mr. moore. you had an idea. get over it. it is not your property anymore. it is shameful for other writers to continue your idea, pretty much like you continued len wein's swamp thing? or other numerous marvel and dc properties you worked on?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/1/2012, 6:39 AM
He wore that mask in the comic, just not the movie.
Denn1s
Denn1s - 2/1/2012, 6:41 AM
moore also worked on batman, an idea by kane and finger created 70 years ago, yet he worked on and expanded it.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 2/1/2012, 6:45 AM
I have to agree with Moore here. The entire point of the Watchmen when it was released in 1986 was to show that comics were indeed a legitimate form of storytelling equal to the novel, and to show just what the medium of graphic storytelling was capable of being. Accepting that premise, there never was a sequel or prequel to Moby Dick, or to many other literary classics.

IF prequels were ever to be done of the Watchmen, why not in 1986/87 when the original series was being released, and selling well? Or if not then, why not around the time that the movie was released, and there was heightened interest again in the Watchmen and its characters? Why now? The whole thing reeks of a financially troubled company desperate to do anything it can to make a buck as its industry slowly dies.
BLACKTHORN
BLACKTHORN - 2/1/2012, 6:48 AM
WHAT THE [frick] IS THIS SHIT!
TheGreenRanger
TheGreenRanger - 2/1/2012, 6:50 AM
All I am going to say is prequals take away from the original premise. cough* STAR WARS! cuogh*!

drfate
drfate - 2/1/2012, 6:51 AM
Well I guess Moore never heard of "Moby Dick - Vendetta", "Moby Dick - Final Warning", and my favorite "Son of Moby Dick - Wrath of the White"
TheGreenRanger
TheGreenRanger - 2/1/2012, 6:52 AM
two words: "Bigger Jaws"
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 2/1/2012, 7:10 AM
Jae Lee on Ozymandias, gotta love it. The rest look good, too, this prequel thing may just be great.
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 2/1/2012, 7:18 AM
If he reads the stories and finds fault with them based on a non-biased critique, I will be more sympathetic. If he's just super omg angry because someone else is capitalizing on a story he never wanted anyone else to touch, well, that's just business my friend. Get over yourself.
AvatarIII
AvatarIII - 2/1/2012, 7:18 AM
@RorMachine iirc, he never wears (or has in his costume wardrobe) the "gimp" mask in the movie.

I am actually very impressed with all the covers released so far, and I am totally going to give the series' a chance. if they suck, so be it, but if they are good, then I get to read 7 good mini-series'
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 7:30 AM
LOL I love The Watchman but it isn't Moby Dick or Jane Eyre. Moore is a moron. There are plenty of classics that have sequels. The Odyssey is a sequel to Iliad. The Man in The Iron Mask is a sequel to The Three Musketeers. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Also look at the works of Tolkien.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 2/1/2012, 7:30 AM
SILK LOOKING REAL GOOD THERE
DoodPool
DoodPool - 2/1/2012, 7:31 AM
Alan Moore is right this is one work you just have to leave alone... Maybe if DC didn't piss moore off they could have got him to do some new original work...
KaneVonDoom
KaneVonDoom - 2/1/2012, 7:33 AM
I understand both sides completely. While I side with the studios for Movie adaptations and action figures, I have to side with Alan Moore as far as comic adaptations go.

Regardless of my opinion on that matter I am a huge fan of Watchmen and will most likely be picking this up if for anything else, curiosity... And that Art is pretty awesome.
airbeyonder18
airbeyonder18 - 2/1/2012, 7:36 AM
I love the Ozymandias!
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/1/2012, 7:39 AM
nice covers,but these books are just wrong alan moore should be writing them.
LucasMend
LucasMend - 2/1/2012, 7:41 AM
LMAO Tea

This prequels are an insult
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 7:52 AM
@RamonSuarez Moore does not own any of those properties according to your logic no current story can reference a past story. So then no current X-Men/Marvel book can reference a past one oh wait wasn't Marvel doing another Age of Apocalypse. And of course DC are out to make a buck so is Marvel.
GrayFox1025
GrayFox1025 - 2/1/2012, 8:10 AM
@Denn1s - Your'e missing the point when you say "he expanded on Batman"

Batman was never meant to be a story that begins and ends, hence it is still in publication after 70 years. Watchmen, however was meant to only serve it's 12 issues and that was it.

That's the difference between comics and graphic novels.
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 8:15 AM
@RamonSuarez LOL you can not rip off what you own and Marvel is doing the same thing with Age of Apocalypse as those stories you mentioned.
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 8:27 AM
@IronAngel Thanks.

@RamonSuarez Also the characters in The Watchmen were rip offs from characters from Charlton Comics those characters are owned by guess who DC Comics. Hell the characters were intended to be rip offs to begin with.
tron21full
tron21full - 2/1/2012, 8:34 AM
Now i am defiantly looking forward to this. I am still looking forward to The Comedian the most but also Rorschach
sarahsatire
sarahsatire - 2/1/2012, 8:35 AM
Jae Lee's art never fails to impress me.
spiderneil
spiderneil - 2/1/2012, 8:41 AM
alan moore is an an idiot.

people expand on comic characters, that is what the comic industry is all about.
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 2/1/2012, 8:42 AM
This is a terrible idea. Plus Ozymandias can levitate now? And does the comedian have cum on his forehead? What the actual [frick]
spiderneil
spiderneil - 2/1/2012, 8:43 AM
I really hope adam hughes' 4 issues is in the can and THEN they solicited it rather than waiting for him to draw issues month to month as hughes is so...slow...

what ever happened to his all star wonder woman? exactly.
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 2/1/2012, 8:44 AM
Haha nevermind @teabag fooled me

You sly dog
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 9:05 AM
@RamonSuarez Ozymandias was based on Thunderbolt not Blue Beetle. Nite Owl was based on Blue Beetle. Also Rorshach was very much a Steve Ditko character gone insane. Ditko has even been quoted as saying that. And Rorshach was meant to be.
GrayFox1025
GrayFox1025 - 2/1/2012, 9:14 AM
@Dmon Yeah, Rorschach was based on Ditko's Charlton/DC character "The Question"
Dmon
Dmon - 2/1/2012, 9:17 AM
@GrayFox1025 And Mr. A.
joeker
joeker - 2/1/2012, 10:13 AM
the comedian looks like he wants to do something nasty to me...
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