More From Alan Moore On BEFORE WATCHMEN And Its Potential Readership

What an annoying man, go grow your Santa beard a little longer clown. Also please Alan tells us more about the characters you didn't really create but where just Pastiche's of Carlton characters I do so love those stories. Also don't forget to plug your League of Non copyrighted characters so I can read stories about characters you didn't create. How's Superm.... I mean Supreme doing? Such originality. What a douche

was going to comment almost exactly the same @bigkev12 what a self righteous douche bag he has become (or maybe always was) he based these characters directly on someone elses creations.... he has written characters he didnt create countless times without ever having the original creators permission.

i have a passing interest in these prequels but I might just buy them to help contribute to their inevitable success and hope that even more watchmen things get made...

Gotta admit, I'm with Moore.

I'm not the type of person who'll get interested in a comic purely based on how it's drawn.

^^^ This is also true. DC screwed him over big time, if you read the rest of the interview it goes in depth on that. I still think his gripes are hypocritical outside of that though. I mean I don't want the prequels either! But they are happening so most we can hope for are good comics.

Typical intolerant haters, calling people names and insulting people who you disagree with. Whether or not you agree with him, Moore is certainly entitled to his opinion. He is also deserving of respect for the great stories he has given us over the years. So he's a little protective of his stories and his characters. Wouldn't YOU feel that way if you were in his shoes? How about showing a little tolerance? Disagree with Moore's opinion if you like- that is certainly your right- but really. Insulting the man and calling him various profane names is f*cking juvenile.

Gotta say Im with Moore on this one.DC is just trying to capitalize on the success of the Watchmen series.Id never buy any Watchmen book that Moore wasnt involved with.

WOW! So we're supposed to like the characters, enjoy the work but never want to see them again because he created them? Really? So anyone that creats something should keep it to themselves so no one else can create new works? I can't get behind that. sorry

The point of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell was not to make comic books... The whole point of them was to use the comic book medium to make stand alone novels and that's what the publishers agreed on when they picked him up for those specific projects. To Legitimize the art form and be a piece of literature, not to make another serial like Spider Man or Superman. He has had takes on serials that other people have had their takes on and that's not where his gripes are.

He has said that over & over and obviously it doesn't sink into people's thick skulls... This isn't about him being a dick. This is just a slap in his face to what he put his energies toward. I'm curious about Before Watchmen too but ultimately I agree with Moore.

what a nice guy!

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haha DOUCHE!

...aaaand since you all who disagree with him on this specific argument, you take personal swipes at him about the way he lives his own life when they aren't even relevant to the issue?! Pathetic and ignorant.

Is he a great writer? sure. Did DC dick him over? sure. But how hateful and bitter of a person do you have to be? Everyone in the creative field has experienced SOMETHING like this. But you learn from it and grow and move on. How many decades does it take for him to move on? Let it go. His bitterness and anger is very self-defeating and counter productive.

I think the prequels are a terrible idea, but they are being made so I just want good comic books.

@ Ror: I agree with you there to a point. I don't think that TLoEG was necessarily expanding on those characters mythos as it was using the characters and established archetypes in a different context and setting. But that is purely my opinion and understand how someone could see it differently.

I think Alan Moore WAS an extremely talented writer. Nobody's made the point that it's been a while since he's WRITTEN ANYTHING. I can understand being angry and upset, but most people GET OVER IT! The guy's so insecure that he can't just be happy that WATCHMEN is a fantastic read. He's no Stan Lee.

ALAN MOORE CAN RIGHT A DAMN GOOD STORY. HE'S NOT INTERESTED IN PREQUELS OR MOVIES OR WHAT AND HE DOESN'T CARE, HE'S A STORYTELLER PERIOD.

Its amazing how easy it is to sell to the average American comic reader anything of zero value as long as the publisher tells you its gonna be collectable. This kind of blatant scam to make an extra buck would never happen in any other country except America. This is the reason the rest of the world considers Americans as the stupidest most gullible bunch on the planet.

Would you write new sequels to Tom Sawyer or spin off novels and comics just for the cash?

Would you make buildings similar to the old World Trade Centre just to make extra cash from tourism?

Would you create younger versions of the Statue of Liberty and erect them all over town so people knew what she looked like when she was all ages?

At what point do you stop respecting the integrity of a thing be it art or any form of expressionism and simply consider it game to make an extra buck from to a majority of consumers who no no better than to spend money on anything they're told is gonna be worth collecting?

The people who bought Watchmen and understood it were in most cases not your regular idiot buying Marvel and DC spandex crap and measuring their dicks. Like Alan Moore said, most of them were intelligent readers who saw a TALE, not a FRANCHICE! The average idiot simply thinks like a hollywood fool, that everything is made for prequels, sequels, spin-offs and merchandise! Every IMPORTANT story about every character in Watchmen, is TOLD in the damn story over a 30 year period. And that's all you need to know!

Now some scheming money bags at DC Studios tells a bunch of fanboys that there's more stories that popular writers and artists need to tell you who have and had NOTHING to do with the actual conception of the Watchmen and like A-Typical idiots the whole "Must collect every issue" fanboys strain kicks in as predictable as ever.

No wonder they call your kind dumb ass nerds!

I give up, you can't debate with people hell bent on spending their money on funding Landfill!