Plenty of nerds are up in arms over the fact that DC Comics is planning a series of prequels to Watchmen, the seminal comic that ushered the medium out of drugstore racks and into crit lit seminars. The move doesn’t particularly bother me. It may not be necessary, but I’m curious to see what the series does with the characters, particularly the omnipotent Dr. Manhattan. Then again, I liked the film adaptation of Watchmen (which a lot of geeks treated with contempt), so perhaps I’m in the minority on this as well. Alan Moore pulled himself away from his dog-eared copy of the Necronomicon to express his displeasure at DC for expanding upon his creation, but it’s a safe bet that DC doesn’t care what Moore thinks.
And while I’ll probably give the series a try, I’m not sure I want to know why the Comedian is wearing a bondage mask as shown below.
