What I can't see is how there is any moral ground to consider Moore's wishes. He never cared about other creator's wishes, so what difference does it make whether Wein or any other creator uses a creator's rights or corporate speak argument to criticize Moore.

But hey, keep talking about how much of a victim Alan Moore is, since you seem to be doing such a great job convincing yourselves of it.

Poor Ted!

Captain Nemo is forever ruined for him.

Putting aside the question of Alan Moore's ethics, because Ted won't ever be satisfied on that score, it's depressing that Len Wein's defense of this creatively bankrupt turd is to insist that SOMEONE had to make more WATCHMEN comics, and if it wasn't going to be Moore, it may as well have been him, Jim Lee and Darwyn Cooke.

No.

The flaw in that premise is, we didn't need more WATCHMEN comics.

Lawson, you have written endless rants against "anal-rape" of all-ages comic characters, so please reconcile your feelings about that with your defense of the writer that had Kid Marvelman/Kid Miracleman, Batgirl, and the Invisible Man forcibly buggered.

That is correct. This is a cash-grab, as are 90% (roughly) of all corporate comics. My question is whether this is a better alternative to whatever other corporate cash-grab DC could have concocted. The jury is still out on that.

Holy cow, seriously, Ted?

So I have to think A KILLING JOKE was a great comic in order to roll my eyes at DC cranking out a bunch of shameless WATCHMEN sequels? What the hell does one have to do with the other?

For what it's worth, I'm not a fan of A KILLING JOKE, though Brian Bolland's art was lovely. I've read that Moore himself has grown dissatisfied with A KILLING JOKE, in large part because of its treatment of Barbara Gordon.

WATCHMEN was a stand-alone work -- a completed story -- widely praised as one of the best comics ever. That's not true of most of the Batman and X-Men comics on the shelves. Yes, it's sad to see Marvel crank out a 10th monthly AVENGERS title. But if you don't see the difference between that and a WATCHMEN sequel, then you're beyond my ability to explain it to you.

Maybe you should try reading the thousand-odd previous threads about it. Start with this one, where your exact complaint was brought up and addressed a little over two weeks ago.

Or... y'know. Keep repeating "BUT HE USES OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS" over and over and over again. That sounds like more fun. Easier, too.

No, the ethics of one don't correspond to the other, but you were the one making the "Capt. Nemo" joke. So do I have to care about Nemo to criticize Moore?

BEFORE WATCHMEN ISN'T A SHAMELESS PIECE OF CORPORATE HACKERY BECAUSE ALAN MOORE USED THE INVISIBLE MAN IN ONE OF HIS COMIC BOOKS, AND ANYWAY, THE DUDE IS FREAKY TO LOOK AT!!!