BEFORE WATCHMEN.
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w21.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w22.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w23.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w24.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w25.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w26.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w27.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/2012-02/DC/w28.jpg
Citation:
Stepping up to the challenge is a group of the comic book industry’s most iconoclastic writers and artists – including Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Lee Bermejo (JOKER), Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL), Darwyn Cooke (JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER), John Higgins (WATCHMEN), Adam Hughes (CATWOMAN), J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS), Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), Joe Kubert (SGT. ROCK), Jae Lee (BATMAN: JEKYLL AND HYDE), J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING).
BEFORE WATCHMEN includes:
- RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
- MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
- COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
- DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
- NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
- OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
- SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner
Each week, a new issue will be released, and will feature a two-page back-up story called CURSE OF THE CRIMSON CORSAIR, written by original series editor Len Wein and with art by original series colorist John Higgins. There will also be a single issue, BEFORE WATCHMEN: EPILOGUE, featuring the work of various writers and artists, and a CRIMSON CORSAIR story by Wein and Higgins.
|
Citation:
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”
|
Citation:
“The original series of WATCHMEN is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire,” said Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN co-creator and original series artist.
“Comic books are perhaps the largest and longest running form of collaborative fiction,” said DiDio and Lee. “Collaborative storytelling is what keeps these fictional universes current and relevant.”
|
Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=36724
A PARTIR DE CET ÉTÉ!
Citation:
Envoyé par Len Wein
. The first issue of the first mini-series will drop this summer, title and date TBD. From there, new issues will roll out each week.
|
Source: http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/02/01/...%3A+first+look
***************************
Interview de Straczynski:
Citation:
J. Michael Straczynski: The first time Dan DiDio mentioned it was, I believe, a couple of years ago, in a "wouldn't it be cool if...?" sort of way. Initially, I think he was looking at a way to go slowly with one or two characters, such as Dr. Manhattan, but gradually grew to believe there might be a larger canvas on which he could make this happen.
|
A propos d'Alan Moore:
Citation:
The lack of his blessings has no more impact on the actual storytelling process than would be the case if we had his blessings.
|
Réunions secrètes!
Citation:
It's both, really. We are all being very meticulous in how we tie in the events of our stories with the original "Watchmen." The first time we all met secretly in New York to discuss all this, we kept copies of "Watchmen" close at hand and whenever a question was raised about what happened to whom and when, we'd flip through looking for the slightest clue. I joked at the time that it looked like Saturday afternoon Bible Study.
|
Est-ce que Dr Manhattan aura un totem?
Citation:
it's always bothered me that someone as brilliant and precise about time as Jon could just blithely walk into the intrinsic field test chamber as the time-lock closed. He'd know better than that. But since it did happen, you now have to say, "Okay, that being the case, how did it happen? Is there something we don't know? Or more to the point, was there something he didn't know?"
Asking that question, and a number of others, began to have a profound effect on both the story and Dr. Manhattan himself. The result, for lack of a less dopey term, is a reexamination of the facts in the case on a quantum level that will branch out to have very large consequences.
|
On garde le gauffrier à 9 cases?:
Citation:
I didn't stick to the nine-panel thing because like most writers, I try to create a certain rhythm on the page by changing up the number of panels
|
Hé ben, non!
Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=36726
Stracz, toujours, sur Nite Owl:
Citation:
HV: Which Nite Owl are you focusing on? (Or both?)
JMS.: My focus is on the second Nite Owl, Dan Dreiberg, though the first Nite Owl shows up in the story, along with many of the other characters.
|
Les prequelles ne formeront pas forcément un tout::
Citation:
HV: Are the prequels all connected?
JMS: There’s some overlap here and there, but it’s more thematic than plot-oriented.
|
Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...7-books-286302
**************************
Quelques mots de Len Wein
Pas un reboot, Wein est l'éditor du projet.
Citation:
Just don’t call it a reboot, said Before Watchmen series editor and Wolverine and Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein, who also served as Moore and Gibbons’ original Watchmen editor in the 1980s.
|
Watchmen 2 pour plus tard?
Citation:
HV: And if this is successful, will there be a sequel to the prequel? And are there any plans to eventually integrate this universe with the broader DC Universe?
JMS: Both of those are questions for Dan DiDio. I’m just glad to have a chance to play with these characters right now. The future will attend to itself, it always does.
|
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/...efore-watchmen
****************
Brian Azzarello, sur Rorschach:
Citation:
"He's the face. The guy who covers his face is the face of the franchise," Azzarello says. For the four-issue Rorschach series, he's teaming again with Bermejo, the artist from his Joker graphic novel.
"You're going to get the Rorschach that you know and want. It's a very visceral story we're going to be telling,''
|
********************
Bleeding Cool et les réactions des concernés/ du milieu, mais, surtout, Alan Moore:
Citation:
Alan Moore – Not answering his phone. Don’t blame him. He did tell the New York Times that it was “completely 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”, that the series is a reminder of “draconian contracts” he signed with DC and that “I don’t want money. What I want is for this not to happen… As far as I know, there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to ‘Moby-Dick.’”
|
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/...ry-quote-file/
Et aussi:
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/20...DC/amanda2.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/20...C/NiteOwl1.jpg
http://buzzpreview.buzzcomics.net/20...C/Comedian.jpg
Réactions sur Twitter:
Dan Slott sur Twitter:
Citation:
In 2013, I am SO pitching "Before Before Watchmen"-- the trick will be capturing the voices of the people capturing Alan Moore's voice.
|
Citation:
Can I write "Before American Splendor"? I think I could really get Harvey Pekar's voice just right. #CheckPlease
|
****************
Bryan Talbot, sur Twitter.
****************
Kieron Gillen, sur Twitter.
Citation:
A kinda-obvious thought occurs: the actual Watchmen sequel? The last 25 years of superhero comics.
|
****************
Andy Diggle.
Citation:
Just heard a detonation from the direction of Northampton...
|
****************
Chris Eliopoulos:
Citation:
I'm holding out for "Before Maus." :)
|
****************
Chris Weston.
Citation:
So glad I picked YESTERDAY to show off my 2000ad cover.
|
****************
Lee Bermejo
Citation:
Well, today is going to be interesting....
|
****************
Mike costa.
Citation:
Can't wait to see @AH_AdamHughes draw some penis for once.
|
|