Watchmen 2: Danectric Didiloo

[ctc]

>it was a nice self-contained story

Yeah. That's the big problem with any sort of continuance: there's nothing left to say. Even if you did prequels with the old Minutemen, or pre-Act Owlman et al, it's gonna seem like more of the same. I think a lot of Watchmen's impact was the time it came out. The super fans had never seen anything like that and it made an impact. You're NOT gonna do that again with the series, since so many books that followed appropriated so much from it.

But yeah, it would sell 'cos there are significant numbers of fandom that'll buy anything with the name of their fave slapped on. And yeah, I think a sequel is inevitable. (I'm actually QUITE surprised that it hasn't been done already.)

Don C.

[kingdom warrior]

^ Man...that Superwoman has a bigger rack than Power Girl....is that even possible?

I have the Figure to that Superwoman and Yeah she makes Power girl look flat chested......

[jds1911a1]

I have those! I did appreciate having additional background material for the Watchmen characters. Love the little lead figures as well. Can't remember if that stuff was vetted/sanctioned by Moore, but Gibbons did do additional illustrations didn't he?

What the movie did do was create a giant commercial for the Graphic Novel with great success... they sold bucketloads of a two decade old comic book. Which is understandable why there are rumblings of possible sequels/prequels/spinoffs in comic form. Whether or not this is something the audience will embrace or not remains to be seen. Dark Knight 2 was critically panned from a great many folks, but made lots of $$$ still.

Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and they will leave well enough alone!

why should they put the effort into a new book when they can simply make another new release of the same old material with yet another pack in or binding change. it's made them boat loads of money over the years re issueing the story so far (unless their goal is to cut Moore and gibbons out of the pie)

[johnnystorm]

>I think a lot of Watchmen's impact was the time it came out.

This swiping or repackaging of the '80s & '90s DC is Dan Didio's sole stock in trade. EVERY event of the '80s, from Crisis on Infinite Earth's to Eclipso Attacks to Armageddon 2001, etc. Then reviving & repackaging Booster Gold & soon Justice League International. Recreating new versions of Superboy, Blue Beetle, Flash & Green Lantern (although in the latter two instead of a 2nd version he's replaced the 2nd with the first). Even Blackest Night owes something to the old Ghosts storyline from the '90s annuals, plus the Manhunters plot woven in (and twisted with Marvel Zombies). Even managed to work in Death of Superman using Batman instead.

Watchmen is just another one. Expect the following over the next year: A reimagined Swamp Thing (maybe this time Grant Morrison will reveal he's not a plant elemental, but really Alec Holland as a human plant! Actually, that wouldn't be too bad in the DCU proper)...Sandman (hey, if you can screw with Alan Moore why not Neal Gaiman?)...oh,oh, Bloodlines, they didn't get to that one yet!

[The Toyroom]

^ Some of us have tried very hard to forget "events" like Armageddon 2001, Eclipso Attacks and....uggh....Bloodlines. Thanks for reminding us....

[Cosmicman]

Some movies (as good as they were) do not need sequels. There was never a sequel or anything written after the Watchmen series. So I would leave it alone.

[BlackKnight]

I should really pay better attention when reading the topic title... for some reason I thought it said dildo at first

Dildo's Get Better Use than I did from any of this Crap.