Your Best/Worst Look at Before Watchmen So Far
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“Best” because it’s a lot of pictures, and the pictures are reasonably large and clear. “Worst” because Before Watchmen is a terrible, preposterously mercenary idea that serves as a shining example of how the comics industry treats creators like shit. Now, I understand that comics is a business, and Before Watchmen has the potential to make a lot of money — but pimping out one of comics’ most indisputable masterpieces against the very vocal wishes of the man who created it for you is just awful. Anyways, the art is here is here. I don’t really feel like posting it.
This is not a situation where we have taken things from Alan. He signed an agreement and yet he said ‘I didn’t read the contract.’ I can’t force him to read his contract.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.