Fan opinion is divided over news that the success of Before
Watchmen has led to a further spate of
spin-off mini-series. DC Comics co-person Ronnie James Didio last night issued
the following press release which probably wasn’t written by him at all:
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No, hang on, that was the cat
walking across the keyboard.
Try this.
“Hey! After After Watchmen which introduced readers to the other great comicbooks
that were a little bit like Watchmen in
that they used the occasional big word and had not so many fight scenes as an
ordinary comic, and after Before Watchmen which is still setting comics alight – literally in some
cases, as the more enthusiastic fans of
Alan Moore are firebombing shops that carry it – we knew there were more
stories to tell about the beloved characters in the Watchmen universe.
That’s why we’ll be launching During
Watchmen, a new set of very limited series
featuring the characters that, while not at the forefront of the original
series’ narrative, were essential to its success.
The series will be:
Rich Gay Gentlemen From Chapter
Two: The rich gay gentlemen from the
restaurant scene in chapter two (page 25) leave the restaurant and go to a club
or something. Not a sweaty dancey club, more one of those swanky nob type of
club where you sit in button-back armchairs and read the Washington Post while a waiter brings you a decent scotch or two.
Rhonda, Darlene and the Girls
On the Street: The hooker who propositions
Rorschach in Chapter Two (page 25 again! What is it with Alan’s story structure
that means there’s Ordinary People on page 25 all the time I asks you?) gets
into a strange john’s car. When she doesn’t come back, the other working girls
form their own band of revenge-seeking vigilante-justice-dealing ahh, you get
the idea. It’s just like any other female-led mainstream comic but with cheaper
costumes.
Billboard Guy: Some schlub goes round pasting up the big ads for
Nostalgia, maybe he drops a bucket of paste and has to go on the lam, maybe he
moonlights as a Gunga Diner delivery boy. We’ll think of something.
Where We Goin’, Daddy? Heartbreaking one-shot revealing the backstory behind the
father and daughter at Grand Central Station in Chapter Three (page 24 this
time. Close enough, huh?). Greg Schlub has promised his daughter Hayley a
magical trainriding holiday ever since she was a baby, but cutbacks and
economies have always meant poor Greg didn’t have the money to do it. Now one
of Greg’s distant Aunts has died and left him a few thou, Greg’s finally going
to take Hayley on that long-promised train journey…if a giant squid bomb plot
twist doesn’t get him first.
Joey The Lesbian Cab Driver: Yeah, that made you pay attention, didn’t it?"
During Watchmen or something very similar to it will be on sale early next
year.
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