DC is headed back to the Watchmen universe. The comic book company announced yesterday that it will publish a seven-issue prequel to the award-winning series this summer.
And no, Alan Moore won’t be involved.
This summer, the company will publish seven prequel comic book mini-series called Before Watchmen, each week unleashing a new title focusing on the characters’ lives and adventures in the years before the original story.
Those characters — Rorschach, Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre and the 1940s superteam The Minutemen – will be featured in stories from such notable comics creators as Darwyn Cooke, J. Michael Straczynski, Brian Azzarello, Adam Hughes, Andy Kubert and Joe Kubert, among others.
DC, which owns the characters, is now saying that enough time has passed that it’s okay to explore new stories featuring the Watchmen.
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee in a statement. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told.
How about DC hires some new writing talent to come up with something new rather than messing with something that was supposed to be a self contained story? I won’t support any prequel nonsense. I prefer stories that go forward anyway.