I love how so many people are convinced this is going to suck BEFORE a single issue has come close to hitting the stands. The novel will always be there, and it will always be everything it was to you when you read it, but these stories (written by some pretty solid writers from what I can tell) have a chance to be something different. Do we hate everything Spiderman because One More Day was shit? No! It would be stupid. One of these Watchmen series probably won't work. Maybe more than one. But some could be quite good. It's not like these characters are so overwhelmingly unique that no one other than Moore could write them without ruining everything.
Yeah, the intentions behind why this is happening aren't pure. Money's involved. It's a business. People need to get over that. There have been many moves in the comic book industry (New 52, any major crossover event) that were done for money that ended up really successful (39 of 52 series getting consistently high marks by IGN and other reviewers, with 5 of the six that didn't getting cancelled in two months and things like Marvel's Civil War respectively) AND were really fun reads.
My point (to which it took me far too long; sorry ) is that until the first issue hits the stand, we should hold our judgment, or else we're just limiting ourselves from a potentially interesting comic.
Yeah, the intentions behind why this is happening aren't pure. Money's involved. It's a business. People need to get over that. There have been many moves in the comic book industry (New 52, any major crossover event) that were done for money that ended up really successful (39 of 52 series getting consistently high marks by IGN and other reviewers, with 5 of the six that didn't getting cancelled in two months and things like Marvel's Civil War respectively) AND were really fun reads.
My point (to which it took me far too long; sorry ) is that until the first issue hits the stand, we should hold our judgment, or else we're just limiting ourselves from a potentially interesting comic.