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Watchmen 2. "Just a matter of time, I s'ppose..."

deja_vroom

11:07 / 05.02.10

"I understand now that this considered a pet project of Dan DiDio, SVP-Executive Editor. That he is determined to impress new bosses by building on DC’s biggest selling comic book of all time with multiple prequel comic miniseries and spinoff ongoing projects."

Eek! A Freek!

13:29 / 05.02.10

...and then soon to follow:

V2 - Evey's Revenge

Eek! A Freek!

13:32 / 05.02.10

I can see why they (DC) want to do it, and I can even imagine that in the right hands it might not even suck too too much, if they stick to Prequels only, like Herbert Jr. did with the Dune series.

Still a shame: It (the original) is such a nicely complete story...

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:11 / 05.02.10

Dude, come on. The sequel to V is called VI. That's the joke.

Eek! A Freek!

17:26 / 05.02.10

D'oh! Missed out on that one... I was even going to spin the whole V2 thing into a nazi thing...(I'm on my second run on Gravity's Rainbow...)

VI is better - At least I left it for you to get the credit.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

07:15 / 06.02.10

...if they stick to Prequels only, like Herbert Jr. did with the Dune series.

If only he stuck with the prequels! He also wrote the final installment of the original Dune series (it was just as terrible as his prequels).

But I suppose no one should be surprised, really, that DC is trying to get some more cash out of the best selling book they've produced. Makes perfect sense from a financial perspective.

Alex's Grandma

06:19 / 14.02.10

I don't know if I should say this, but there's a rumour going round.

What thoughts would the words 'Mark' 'Millar' and 'Watchmen 2' trigger, if they were in a sentence?

'Well, it can't happen,' you might think. 'That cannot happen.'

And in a way, you might be right. Mark Millar is on a roll in Hollywood at the moment, and so wouldn't be interested in directing a property unless he had a lot of input.

doctorbeck

18:59 / 14.03.10

i suppose the stuff that GM is doing for DC in their earth charlon line might be closer to being watchment 2, or 0 though as he is using the characters and captain atom is looking more like dr manhatten everytime someone draws him.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:50 / 24.04.10

DC has pretty much been telling people that this is off the table, so even if it WAS being talked about at one point, they aren't doing so any more.

Truth is, they HAVE done sequels/prequels to it in other media. There were adventures in the Watchmen universe (?) in the DC roleplaying game that Dave Gibbons helped with, and Len Wein wrote the plot for the video game.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:30 / 10.05.10

If something like this WERE to happen, I'd have to seriously start wondering whether Alan Moore's magical practise wasn't actually just a lot of old pretending after all.

iamus

14:33 / 27.05.10

The sequel to V is called VI

Or the prequel: I, V

Eh? Eh?

Naw?

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