Moore’s anger is with the stagnant and blase editorial decisions that now run the comic books industry.  Can you seriously blame him?   It’s become exactly that, an industry.  It’s a “churn out event after big event and rehash the same plot threads and same death of a character scare tactics summer every summer until we move onto the next thing.” It’s become an era of let’s see how many tie-ins to the big budget blockbuster we can churn out in 5 minutes.  It’s become an era of “we have to make sure the characters in the books match the movies now for new readers.”  

Maybe it’s because readers don’t want to change, because they buy all of this shit, and it makes money, so how can you really blame the people in charge for making these decisions?  Maybe that’s just what the readers want.

How many New 52 books have been canceled?  Out of 52?  Already?  Yeah.  That’s my point.     

I’m not saying there are not good comics, and there are not good writers, but I can’t believe that anyone can possibly try to tell me that this is an industry that is fresh and alive and full and vibrant and overflowing with new and exciting ideas that propel us into new worlds and dimensions the way this medium should.      

Seriously, why the fuck are we revisiting Watchmen?   Are you telling me we are out of ideas?  Are you telling me, DC Comics, that you can’t think of a better way to make money?  Are you telling me that a 25 year old 12 issue mini-series is the best we can come up with?  This is the best big new idea?  

This is the equivalent of using a butter knife when you can’t find a screwdriver.  It will probably get the job done, but at the end of the day, you’re just stripping the nut.  You need to get up and get a flathead, before you destroy it beyond repair.  It works for now, but it’s not good in the long run.    

“While he was unaware of DC’s specific plans for Before Watchmen, Mr. Moore said he has over the years resisted overtures from the publisher to approve sequel or prequel projects.

Still, Mr. Moore said he was unlikely to stand in the way of Before Watchmen or to fight the project in court, where he said DC Comics would meet him with an “infinite battery of lawyers.”

“I don’t want money,” he said. “What I want is for this not to happen.”

Mr. Gibbons does not share those feelings. Though he is not participating in Before Watchmen, he said in a statement: “The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire.”

But Mr. Moore was unconvinced, saying that the endeavor only weakened the argument that comics were an authentic form of literature.

“As far as I know,” he said, “there weren’t that many prequels or sequels to ‘Moby-Dick.’ ””

MISTER MOORE