Cunning Man

It must be a publicity boost is all I can figure. They're of the "there's no such thing as bad press" school of thought. Have JMS write up a flimsy article calling the detractors irrational to stoke the flames of fan ire, and they're off. If they'd made this sort of hoopla about those hypothetical new Watchmen/Charlton-based series instead, just think of all the praise they could have won.

Excelsior!

lol I'm going to assume he'd kill some of them off in an "imaginary story" and DC would keep using them anyway ala 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' Then twenty-five years later he'd say "Contemporary writers using alien squid monsters as psychic bombs only proves this industry is truly devoid of top flight creative talent, as I've been saying since they screwed me out of my 'Batman The Ripper' rights."

I would have preferred if they'd based original heroes on the Watchmen characters as Moore did with the Charlton bunch. DC could have made ongoing series with those that would have been more profitable in the long term, as this is probably only a cash grab anyway. Rather than making recognizable characters unrecognizable out of an editorial obligation to "keep them relevant" I hope somebody in the future still does that. Otherwise you get something like the "Arkham City" Penguin, updated with a cybernetic eye instead of a monocle. Ooo, edgy!

 

 

Cunning Man, thanks for the link.

No problem. Sorry I didn't give the time he started on that topic. I made a couple of attempts to paraphrase it, but like you said it's better to hear it in context. The whole thing is pretty interesting.

Moore's response to the charge of hypocrisy is in here:

I'll read these and feel dirty afterward. I'm not entirely against them because they may spark some new ideas in other writers, ironically enough. Some of the art is also very nice.

The whole album "Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood For The Fire" by Firewater.

That or death by snu-snu would suit me well.

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I'm glad I could bring something to the board.

Thanks again.

Thanks :)

Maybe a bit more about me: I'm an old geek from America and I've never used the term buttsmothering before. I guess I'll let the rest unfold spontaneously. It's more of an adventure that way.

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