Watchmen Prequel Announcement of the Day: After months of rumors and speculation, DC Comics has broken the news that they’ll be releasing a series of prequel comics based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark 1986 series Watchmen.
Called Before Watchmen, the project will involve seven series running simultaneously, exploring the lives of the six main Watchmen characters (and the pre-Watchmen Minutemen team) before the events of Moore and Gibbons’ books.
Before Watchmen will run weekly for 35 weeks, followed by a one-shot epilogue that ties the seven series together. DC has brought in some A-list talent on the books, including writers Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke and J. Michael Straczynski, and original Watchmen editor Len Wein.
Alan Moore is adamantly against the project, but it’s out of his hands due to a “draconian” contract he signed with DC in the ’80s. He told the New York Times that Before Watchmen is “shameless,” and “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.”
“I don’t want money. What I want is for this not to happen,” he said. “As far as I know, there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to ‘Moby-Dick.’ ”
Take a look at some of the covers for Before Watchmen after the jump.
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