Broken Frontier

Sam Moyerman has commented on a blogentry: Feeling Angry About Before Watchmen? A Few Quick Words on Why You Shouldn't
Feb 10, 2012 at 1:35pm

also, i can't wait for the discussion on my next blog post, should i ever get the time to complete it.

Sam Moyerman has commented on a blogentry: Feeling Angry About Before Watchmen? A Few Quick Words on Why You Shouldn't
Feb 10, 2012 at 1:31pm

Again, I know the original contract. I have also read that DC tried to renegotiate and Moore took a really hard stance with them. This changed the mold. Old contracts obviously didn't cover it. With anything beyond the original contract we are all working on hearsay. You want to believe Alan Moore? Fine, go ahead. I'll just say I don't trust any of them. Ask Rob Leifeld about contracts with Alan Moore. You'll get a lot different view then, but in the end we'd just be adding another person with shaky believe-ability to the list. BTW - Was Dave Gibbons getting part of the ownership back? Seems adequate to ask in light of the current Walking Dead controversy. Bart seemed to want to dismiss his opinions on it because he has/had a better relationship with DC. I'd say he deserved 50/50. And if his opinion isn't colored with bitterness and anger, maybe he's a better source than anyone else.

Sam Moyerman has commented on a blogentry: Feeling Angry About Before Watchmen? A Few Quick Words on Why You Shouldn't
Feb 9, 2012 at 2:15pm

without having any inside information at all on it, i refuse to comment on the ownership rights of the book. it is well known that the initial contract called for the rights to revert 1 year after going out of print, but i have heard mixed reports on the attempt to renegotiate. i honestly don't trust any of the sources enough to fully take their side (for instance, why is moore so angry but dave gibbons not?). but it's just another way that this book was the game changer. not just in story, but publishers changed their publication standards because of it. should the contract have been renegotiated? sure. but you can't fault anyone involved with any decisions. why pull a book that keeps selling? and did moore think so little of his book that he didn't realize it would stay in print? even if they did stop publication after a year, did he have any assurances it wouldn't come back into print? did he think that little of the readers that they wouldn't want this book around? (probably) and adam, it seems like you are saying that the book's acceptability with you deals with the creators and how they use the characters. and while i share your trepidation on what JMS is planning, how is it that you've already passed judgement on the rest of the books when they haven't even been released yet?

Sam Moyerman has commented on a blogentry: Feeling Angry About Before Watchmen? A Few Quick Words on Why You Shouldn't
Feb 9, 2012 at 12:12am

I don't get the idea that because something is a mash up, it shouldn't count in any way as a sequel. It's telling the tales of characters that takes as canon their other stories. Hence sequel. Is it a different type of sequel? Sure, I'll give you that. But you cany deny that there was Alan Moore, writing Melville's character, using Melville's dialogue. But apparently it's ok because Herman Melville is dead. (I didn't hear the original quote; I'm hopeful Moore was joking when he said that.) It also makes no sense that a mash up is acceptable, but this is not. Under that logic it would be OK if Rorschach fought Batman in his book. Or maybe Spawn so we can crossover publishers. I now wish Todd McFarlane had bought the Watchmen characters somehow. I have no idea what JMS is going to do. His recent output more likely means I won't even like it. But there are Dr. Manhattan stories that could really interest me. What about the first time he realized he could split himself and effectively be everywhere at once? We know Rorshach and Nite Owl went on patrol together in the past, if there time together was so entertaining in Watchment why wouldn't their other ones be too? And if there was nothing at all that could possibly be interesting in these characters' respective pasts then why did Moore reportedly toy with the idea of writing a Minuteman book? It's been my impression that most people don't want to like this just because Alan Moore doesn't like the idea. But historically (and I'm trying to work on a blog post about this) it's been almost automatic that Alan Moore doesn't like anything.

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