DC Announces Before Watchmen

[leonmallett]

I can see me hanging on for the collected editions - I guess they may all get HC treatment with matching trade dress which could look nice on a book shelf.

[etos45]

Not just recoloring. The book is the size of the original comics art pages, is high-end, and also has Moore's plot outline and character outline, and I think a script sample. Can't remember what else, though.

It's funny, I always thought art pages were bigger than that. I guess it's a good price for people who are really into Watchmen, but $100 (which is what it is around here) seems a bit high for that. Maybe $50.

[superman-prime]

ebay it should be less, i sold my last one for 55.

[xodacia81]

When Borders was closing down at the end of last summer, I saw one going for 35 dollars. Oh, if only I'd had more money.

[steverino]

Watched the movie once more, just for the heck of it. Man, it was so much better than the book! IMO

[xodacia81]

Watched the movie once more, just for the heck of it. Man, it was so much better than the book! IMO

The Director's cut or the Complete edition? I never saw the complete edition, though I did see the extras disc with the "Under the Hood" and Pirate Ship story.

[dave]

How can there be a preWatchmen Dr Manhatten? Strange.

I'll not be buying the new stuff as it comes out, but I'll read it eventually I'm sure.

[BruceReville]

How can there be a preWatchmen Dr Manhatten? Strange.

Mama and Daddy in the backseat of the car?

[greg]

How can there be a preWatchmen Dr Manhatten? Strange.

What did he do between becoming Dr. Manhattan and the Vietnam war?
What did he do after Vietnam and before Watchmen?
Isn't that a couple of decades of being a god?

[StarBrand]

Alan Moore comments on Before Watchmen.

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[jedimarley]

What a freak.

[myron]

What a freak.

that's an extreme understatement

[jedimarley]

Every time I see this wacko I want to offer him a few bucks to go get a hot meal.

[xodacia81]

I think there might be room in the Grand Canyon for his ego. Maybe.

[dave]

I agree that he's a freak, and for whatever reason choses to look like a homeless person, but I have to agree that it is rather pathetic that DC is going to simply rehash old ideas instead of trying to develop something new, creative and exciting.

Watchmen was cool for what it was, and I doubt that Before Watchmen will add anything to it.

[myron]

I agree that he's a freak, and for whatever reason choses to look like a homeless person, but I have to agree that it is rather pathetic that DC is going to simply rehash old ideas instead of trying to develop something new, creative and exciting.

Watchmen was cool for what it was, and I doubt that Before Watchmen will add anything to it.

+1 exactly

[leonmallett]

I agree that he's a freak, and for whatever reason choses to look like a homeless person, but I have to agree that it is rather pathetic that DC is going to simply rehash old ideas instead of trying to develop something new, creative and exciting.

Watchmen was cool for what it was, and I doubt that Before Watchmen will add anything to it.

But what is "new, creative and exciting"?

I ask, because if the objection is the use of the characters, then the same applies to pretty much any stable of characters in continuing publication.

Since Watchman told a very specific story, if these books tell their own stories that intersect with that story, then it isn't exactly a rehash either, is it?

What is the difference in this and say, for arguments sake, 20+ years ago Voyager Communications publishing stories with some old characters from 20-30 years earlier?

Now that is not me saying Before Watchmen will be brilliant or anything, rather that the arguments against this project seem a little flawed.

[BruceReville]

Mainstream comics are as original as Hollywood - rehash - remake - make a sequel - why bother coming up with something original?

[BruceReville]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=37383

[iwantvaliant]

So we're a couple books into this and I've enjoyed it. Silk Spectre #1 was really good.

[kevinbastos]

The images were brilliant. Comedian was meh.

Won't be back into the shop until the 11th for Bloodshot. But I am buying for now.

[Newton]

My comic shop ran a deal on this. If you pre-paid for all the issues you got them for $99 and got entered in a drawing for an Absolute Watchmen book. I won That automatically made this a good deal for me.

Anyway, the books themselves are about what I expected - they do not feel necessary, but are quality reads with good creative teams. So far they meet expectations with the potential to exceed them for me.

[iwantvaliant]

My comic shop ran a deal on this. If you pre-paid for all the issues you got them for $99 and got entered in a drawing for an Absolute Watchmen book. I won That automatically made this a good deal for me.

Anyway, the books themselves are about what I expected - they do not feel necessary, but are quality reads with good creative teams. So far they meet expectations with the potential to exceed them for me.

Good deal!