God damn it. Apparently DiDio is trying to rock a sequel and/or prequels to Watchmen. From these articles, it seems as though Paul Levitz used to prevent this shit from happening all the time, but now that he's out of the picture it's FULL SPEED TOWARDS FUCKING UP PERFECTION!.
I'm with Allen - I'm more surprised they haven't done any other Watchmen comics until now.
DC owns the property, and they can do with it what they want. No matter how good or bad it is, and no matter what they actually decide to do with it, it will do nothing to affect the quality of the original.
Done well this could be awesome (particularly prequels, I'd love to see, for instance, a more detailed exploration of what made Rorschach into Rorschach). However the odds of it being done well are so vanishingly small that the very idea should be condemned and boycotted by all right thinking folk.
I'm hoping for a Jeph Loeb/Rob Liefeld team-up on this one. Rorschach could only be improved by having no feet, lots of pouches, and a huge-ass laser gun.
Yeah, I don't see myself having anything to do with any projects that come from this. I don't care who writes/draws, this is just a thing that shouldn't be done.