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Alan Moore -- 'Watchmen' co-creator, writer, wizard, mall Santa, Rasputin impersonator -- talks about the empowerment of not selling out.

Nathan Implosion's favorite, Rich Johnston, has the first five pages of "Before Watchmen: Minutemen", which comes out tomorrow.

Buzzfeed landed a sneak peek of Before Watchmen at DC Comics headquarters.

So, Alan Moore is upset that DC is reviving "his" characters (that are owned by someone else, and based on other people's creations) in their upcoming Before Watchmen books.

Are you upset over DC's Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons-less "Before Watchmen" project.

Upon hearing that DC Comics is releasing prequels to Watchmen, members of Twitter were predictably catty.

Yesterday DC Comics announced "Before Watchmen", a set of prequels to Watchmen being made without the involvement of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (details and all the cover art released so far available here).

A couple months ago, Rich Johnston claimed DC had some prequel comics to Watchmen in the works, and we've explained why we're pretty psyched about that.