The history of comics is replete with writers adapting, appropriating, and remixing other writers’ characters. The ones who are like, “This shouldn’t exist and I’m literally not watching it.” That’s an admirable position. Those are the people that I really admire. I wonder how many of the angry people who don’t think it should exist will actually have the discipline to not even watch it. I ask, “Is it even hypocrisy?” Then I say, as a fan, “Where would I come down on this thing if someone else was doing it? If I heard someone else was doing an HBO series called Watchmen that was not a strict adaptation of the book?” I felt that I’d be really angry about it and then I’d watch it. What are the ethical ramifications of this even existing at all when I completely and totally side with the creator? Acknowledge that the creator has been exploited by a corporation? Now that very same corporation is basically compensating me to continue this thing. “Not only that, but there’s no version of Watchmen I could make that he would ever watch.” “There is no version of Watchmen I could make that would please him,” Damon Lindelof, the showrunner of the HBO series, told Quartz last month. It’s putting the debate about creator rights back into the spotlight at a time when a huge portion of the most successful TV shows and films are thriving off the backs of their originators. HBO’s Watchmen, as excellent as it is, raises questions about the ethics of playing around with someone else’s creation without their permission. (Gibbons, meanwhile, is a consultant on the show, and he seems pretty excited by it.) “It’s been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way.” In the HBO show’s credits, Gibbons is credited as a co-creator of the original comic, but Moore’s name is nowhere to be found. A comic book,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2005. He also refuses to be associated with adaptations of work that he doesn’t control, like Watchmen. ”My book is a comic book.
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