DC Announces Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill by Len Wein and Steve Rude

[Lars Jensen]

What I find annoying is that Wein refers to Dollar Bill as a Watchmen. Well, there is no such thing as Watchmen in that book. Not only is Dollar Bill a Minuteman but Moore defies expectations from superhero team fans by writing a book with a plural noun except there is no actual team bearing that name. But the editor seems to go along with the misperception. Now, if even the editor of the thing didn't fully get it...

You expect the creators involved with Before Watchmen to actually have a serviceable understanding of the original Watchmen??

There's no such thing as "Watchmen".

The 1930s-1940s organization was called the Minutemen, and the (shortlived) 1960s (1970s?) organization was called the Crimebusters.

[DarthEwok]

Don't you think there's a real danger of over-saturation? Plus this is a few years after the movie, which didn't excite anyone after the fact. I'd think more casual consumers would be really overwhelmed looking at 7+ trades instead of just one complete package.

Good point. There might be a danger of that.

[SAMURAI36]

Gotta love Blaxploitation

Actually, no we don't.

[brian-cs]

There's no such thing as "Watchmen".

The 1930s-1940s organization was called the Minutemen, and the (shortlived) 1960s (1970s?) organization was called the Crimebusters.

Well, heck, what is DC waiting for? After Watchmen: The Minutemen and After Watchmen: The Crimebusters must be on tap next!

[thomazroc]

I can see the next book now...

Before Watchmen: The Guy Who Runs The Newsstand Where Rorschach Buys His Papers And Kids Get Their Pirate Comics

Right now, what people at DC are thinking:

"Bet it could be the best one... think of the irony: a comic about a guy who sell comics, made by Dc comics in a desperate attempt to sell some more comics.

Call some indy guys, call it 'meta'. May work..."

=p

[Mike H.]

Actually, no we don't.

No? Then how about "Gotta regard Blaxploitation as a relatively brief trend with a cultural significance that quickly evolved beyond the baser elements of its beginnings and which is best understood if not always appreciated when placed within the larger prevailing context of the era in which it first appeared"?

[alekesam]

I am still available to do this:

As if DC would have the balls to do it.

[thomazroc]

As if DC would have the balls to do it.

dibs on Before watchmen: The three guys who worked for Ozymandias

[Lemurion]

What, no one calling dibs on "Before Watchmen: the flower in the snow."

[tako]

Before Watchmen: the Blue Dangler of Manhattan