Here's the initial look [left] at the art for one of the Watchmen prequel comics, Minutemen from writer/artist Darwyn Cooke, who is most probably well known for the critically acclaimed DC: The New Frontier.
BEFORE WATCHMEN includes:
* RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
* MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
* COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
* DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
* NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
* OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
* SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner
Here's how the Minutemen were interpreted in Zack Snyder's movie as well as the promo/cover art released for Minutemen at the time of DC's announcement.
Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter.
Early in his career, Cooke worked as a storyboard artist for Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, and in 1999 he animated the main title design for Batman Beyond.
Cooke's most ambitious project was DC: The New Frontier (2004), a six issue miniseries which sought to tell an epic storyline bridging the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the silver age of comic books in the DC Universe. The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the US Space Program The Right Stuff. The major DC characters are introduced in The New Frontier in the same order that DC originally published them, even down to the correct month and year in the story's timeline.
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