{"id":3461,"date":"2012-02-01T23:21:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2012-02-01T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:21:34","slug":"watchmen-gets-moore-less-prequels-news-dark-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/watchmen-gets-moore-less-prequels-news-dark-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"“Watchmen” Gets Moore-less Prequels | News | Dark Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"

DC Comics is going back into the universe of \u201cWatchmen\u201d this summer with the launch of “Before Watchmen”, seven new limited series that will serve as prequels to the acclaimed 80’s comic series.\""Watchmen"<\/p>\n

The projects will mark the first time that characters such as Doctor Manhattan, Rorschach and the Comedian have appeared anywhere in comics since the original 12-issue series – one of the most influential comic books of the past quarter century and the most popular with more than two million copies sold.<\/p>\n

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The project is polarising a lot of people as the original creators – legendary writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons – are not involved. Moore himself tells The New York Times that “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

“Instead various other famed writers and illustrators will expand on the back stories of the costumed vigilantes. Brian Azzarello will pen both the “Rorschach” and “Comedian” titles, J. Michael Straczynski will handle “Nite Owl” and “Dr. Manhattan”, Darwyn Cooke will do “Minutemen” and “Silk Spectre”, and Len Wein will do “Ozymadias” and the mini multi-part story “Curse of the Crimson Corsair”.<\/p>\n

via “Watchmen” Gets Moore-less Prequels | News | Dark Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DC Comics is going back into the universe of \u201cWatchmen\u201d this summer with the launch of “Before Watchmen”, seven new limited series that will serve as prequels to the acclaimed 80’s comic series. The projects will mark the first time that characters such as Doctor Manhattan, Rorschach and the Comedian have appeared anywhere in comics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-TP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19142,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/teaser-animated-watchmen-chapters-1-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3461,"position":0},"title":"Teaser: Animated “Watchmen: Chapters 1 & 2”\u00a0","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"June 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The first part is targeting an August 13th 2024 release on disc with the second part coming in 2025.","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/watchnmen-doctor-manhattan-surrounded-by-helicopters-and-explosions-in-watchmen-animated-movie-trailer.jpg?fit=1200%2C680&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/watchnmen-doctor-manhattan-surrounded-by-helicopters-and-explosions-in-watchmen-animated-movie-trailer.jpg?fit=1200%2C680&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/watchnmen-doctor-manhattan-surrounded-by-helicopters-and-explosions-in-watchmen-animated-movie-trailer.jpg?fit=1200%2C680&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/watchnmen-doctor-manhattan-surrounded-by-helicopters-and-explosions-in-watchmen-animated-movie-trailer.jpg?fit=1200%2C680&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/watchnmen-doctor-manhattan-surrounded-by-helicopters-and-explosions-in-watchmen-animated-movie-trailer.jpg?fit=1200%2C680&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3579,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/comics-continuum-before-watchmen\/","url_meta":{"origin":3461,"position":1},"title":"Comics Continuum: Before Watchmen","author":"AJ","date":"March 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Comics Continuum: Before Watchmen.","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16418,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/hbos-comic-con-watchmen-trailer\/","url_meta":{"origin":3461,"position":2},"title":"HBO’s Comic Con Watchmen Trailer","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"July 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3500,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/update-robert-kirkman-responds-to-tony-moores-the-walking-dead-lawsuit\/","url_meta":{"origin":3461,"position":3},"title":"UPDATE Robert Kirkman Responds to Tony Moore\u2019s THE WALKING DEAD Lawsuit","author":"AJ","date":"February 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tony Moore and Robert Kirkman were friends as teenagers, and both launched their comic book careers together. 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