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Friday Trending Topics: The Three Sequels Watchmen Didn't Have

Friday Trending Topics: The Three Sequels Watchmen Didn't HaveAn utterly fascinating account of some DC editorial history caps off the week:  "Shortly after the completion of the Watchmen series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, DC's main editors went on retreat. The retreatees included Karen Berger, Mike Gold, Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Andy Helfer. The brain trust returned with three "sequels" to Watchmen." — A quote from Comics Between The Panels, which is expanded upon in interesting detail today.

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Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler. Machine Learning hobbyist. Vintage paper addict.
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