[Comics] Before Watchmen

[jonesy]

I've heard if DC doesn't keep the comic "In Print" in some manner, Alan Moore gets the rights to Watchmen.

That's not a reason for a sequel prequel whatnot. It only applies to the original, and there's no indication that it will ever be out of print. Demand for it is pretty much the same it always has.

 

[Krug]

I've heard if DC doesn't keep the comic "In Print" in some manner, Alan Moore gets the rights to Watchmen.

Well no danger in that. Watchmen has been in the top ten list of comic book bestsellers every year since it's been published.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not owned as anyones copyright. I don't know if he's creating his own characters now or not, though it wouldn't surprise me if he was.

He's created new characters for Lost Girls (where the stars of Peter Pan, Oz, Alice in Wonderland are all revealed to be sexual abuse victims, which is eroticized), but as far as I can tell, 99 percent of the characters in League are at least the obscure creations of other writers -- and many of them are still in copyright, but are just used in (theoretically) parodic fashion or never named. (James Bond showed up recently, for instance.)

Essentially, his argument goes that what he's doing is literature, and appropriating characters for literature is a long and noble tradition and, also, those creators are dead. In contrast, he's still alive and his work for hire characters shouldn't ever be used again.

 

[Felon]

The February 2012 sales chart shows a fair number of books selling above Green Lantern's former high water mark of 70k. Not every book, obviously, but enough that they're clearly making a better profit than they were before.

They lured me back, for one, since there's a continuity reboot on many of the titles, which meant I didn't have to worry about catching up on a lot of the franchises. There's also new titles that intrigued me, since DC explicitly went into areas they've neglected in recent decades, like magic/horror books and war books. (Ironically, the franchise I used to love the most, the LSH, is being written horribly in all its titles, and I dropped them like a set of hot rocks after a few issues.)

Went into a comic shop the other day. It's refreshing to see comic book covers that actually look like comic book covers, not trying to be movie posters.

Would be nice to actually see comics targeted at younger audiences now (or "kids of all ages", shall we say). LSH is a perfect example of a comic that is not really best-suited for a jaded thirtysomething audience.