ALAN MOORE OPINA SOBRE BEFORE WATCHMEN

De Comicbookresources, Moore elabora la barbaridad de pretender convertir en franquicia algo que es un cómic cerrado, como esto afecta a la integridad de la obra. Duda de que vaya a funcionar y recuerda que en su contrato había una cláusula que decía que si se negaba a firmar algo en el futuro, DC podía nombrar un abogado que lo hiciese por él...

"It seems a bit desperate to go after a book famous for its artistic integrity," "It’s a finite series. 'Watchmen' was said to actually provide an alternative to the superhero story as an endless soap opera. To turn that into just another superhero comic that goes on forever demonstrates exactly why I feel the way I do about the comics industry. It’s mostly about franchises. Comic shops these days barely sell comics. It’s mostly spin-offs and toys."

"I don’t think it’s going to work. From what I hear, there’s a certain degree of comic creators’ hostility and negative feedback posting on entertainment sites. Some people are writing petitions. I would have never have asked any of the readers to do that, but I’m genuinely grateful. It’s not a kind of reaction I can ever remember from a readership before. I would have thought, from a DC perspective, that’s it’s a lose-lose perspective, unless they did something better or as good as 'Watchmen.' But realistically, that’s not going to happen, otherwise it would have happened before."

"There was a clause in my contract that essentially said that, if in the future, there were any documents or contracts that I refused to sign, DC was entitled to appoint an attorney to sign them instead,[The lawyers] said it was the most creator-hostile contract they’d ever seen."