Speaking of whiney cunts:
- Alan Moore, whose tumultuous relationship with DC Comics is legendary, claims the publisher offered this week to return the rights to his most famous creation -- in exchange for a concession.
“They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels,” Moore told Underwire today. "So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked. But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms."
Moore, who has refused royalties from film adaptations of his work, says he no longer even has a copy of Watchmen in his house. "The comics world has lots of unpleasant connections," he tells Underwire, "when I think back over it, many of them to do with Watchmen."
I can't blame the guy for not wanting to write a sequel and I think a sequel without him (or with him, for that matter) would probably suck.
But this whole "waaahhhhh.....I can't even look at my own work anymore without thinking of how I've been fucked over by the world" shit is ridiculous. The guy wrote a comic book story for a giant corporation twenty five years ago that started as (for lack of better term) a parody of (or homage to) existing characters owned by that company and created by other people.
What part of "work for hire" didn't he understand?
