So we all know that Alan Moore wants nothing to do with all of his projects that have been adapted onto film. From what I recall, this even applies ‘Watchmen.’ I read somewhere that he wants his name removed from everything associated with each respective property (LoEG, V4V, etc.).
So then why do the new hardcovers and even the reprinted paperbacks still bear his name? Was he just trying to use his removal as a symbol of his disappointment? Or was he really serious about it but was unable to get the publishers to do so (since they can use it for marketing)?
He doesn’t want anything to do with the pillaging of his work. That’s why he’s against the movies and shit that have been made from his comics.
DC won’t remove his name off the reprints of his works. He made them so he needs to be properly credited. There’s probably legal mumbo jumbo involved.
I believe Moore would prefer it if DC stopped reprinting Watchmen so that ownership rights would revert to him and Gibbons. Back in the day, I think their contract with DC stated that DC would own Watchmen until it went out of print. Then the rights would be returned to the creators. Watchmen has never gone out of print.
This is the case. The rights were to have reverted to Moore and Gibbons once the series was out of print, and Moore has come to suspect that DC never had any intention of ceasing the printing of Watchmen. Given DC’s history, I wouldn’t put it past them.
Gibbons is on board with the movie as well. He doesn’t share Moore’s antipathy for the development of Watchmen-related projects.
It’s when Jack Black plays some guy who opens a more kid friendly hipper comic book store to rival Jeff Albertson’s, and at his opening he also had Alan Moore among others, I think Art Speigelman was one of them too. It was quite amusing and fun to watch.
At the end of the ep, Alan Moore and the other comic book artists/writers go off as superheroes.
