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I imagine that Ditko would find this distasteful, but would be unsurprised.

I forgot about the HBO show which I dread seeing from just the description alone. A new testament to the classic old testament that was the original Watchmen, sounding like a leftist's wet dream of how a modern Watchmen should be. It'll be hilarious and sad if it goes in the direction tat they said it was. No release date other than 2019 so I can keep my sanity till that abomination comes out.

This is amazing. DC are now raping two creators at once. Is that some kind of record?

>>1052723

Don't forget Geoff Johns. He seems to be the one that's behind most of the Watchmen corpse beating going on at DC.

>>1052836

Makes me wonder what kind of point he's trying to make with Doomsday Clock? That it's Watchmen's fault for the dark and gritty stuff even thought that was the fault of it's imitators and not Watchmen itself?

>>1052836

<Geoff Johns

>Play Lego Batman 3

>unlockable characters are Daffy Duck as Green Loontren, Kevin Smith, and Geoff Johns

>no Ethan Van Sciiver minifig

How the fuck was I supposed to take full credit for Lego Comicsgate without an EVS minifig?!

>>1052723

Paul Levitz was a comics professional, a rare sort given the industry seems to be dominated by petulant, overgrown children. Didio is a marketing executive and up-jumped fanboy, and Geoff Johns is just an up-jumped fanboy. Neither of these people are professionals

Jim Lee I'm surprised at though. When he sold Wildstorm to DC and thereby made it so Alan Moore was potentially working for DC by proxy, he actually went Northampton personally to make assurances to Moore that he wouldn't have to deal with DC people.

>>1052791

>DC are now raping two creators at once

More than that. On the Watchmen side you have not just Moore but Gibbons and on the Charlton side, Ditko only did Question, Blue Beetle and Captain Atom. All the others were done by other people.

>>1052795

The Question is somewhat well-known, mostly due to JLU

>>1052837

>Makes me wonder what kind of point he's trying to make with Doomsday Clock? That it's Watchmen's fault for the dark and gritty stuff

Basically. Mostly trying to get the blame off himself, since he is directly responsible for the vast majority of fucked-up things that happened in the Post-Crisis era of comics and beyond.

Reminds me of when Marvel promised Frank Miller that he would be the only one to ever write Elektra. How long did that last?

What was it Machiavelli said about the promises of princes?

I was surprised when Peter Milligan used the character, I always thought he of all people would have shown some solidarity. "Hell yeah, I'll play Sun City!"

>>1053441

>he is directly responsible for the vast majority of fucked-up things that happened in the Post-Crisis era of comics and beyond

I know I'll regret asking this, but can you give me a rundown?

>>1053452

This is different though. Elektra was just a standard Marvel character created under standard work-for-hire contract which meant that Frank Miller didn't own the character and didn't really have any rights to her. Alan Moore, on the other hand, was supposed to have signed a contract for Watchmen that would have given DC the right to publish the book for a number of years but then Moore would have owned it, the characters, the copyright, everything. You know, like the kind of contract they have at a proper book publisher's. Of course the reality is that DC swindled him and put it into the contract that he'd get his rights back when Watchmen went out of print and of course they kept it in print. So Moore's rage is justifiable

More golden-age reprints on the shelves can't be a bad thing (yes, I know I could. Fuck you, I like paper.), but to do it like this? You just know faggot reviewers are going to think they're getting a "prequel" and then sperging out because the stories are just unconnected good clean fun.

At least the true beetle is getting some love.

>>1053633

What about Golden age Blue Beetle?

>>1053755

He's too much like the phantom.