For a twenty-five year old comic, Watchmen is still a major player at DC Comics. Back in February of this year, they announced an upcoming miniseries to be written by Grant Morrison featuring one-shots each set on a different alternate Earth in the DC Multiverse. Wizard magazine published a piece of artwork by Art Adams that featured characters from various Earths fighting, and most prominent amongst them was Rorschach from WATCHMEN. At the same time, Rich Johnston first reported rumours on Bleeding Cool that DC were planning to launch prequels, sequels and spin-offs of WATCHMEN after the movie from last year had made the graphic novel their bestselling book of all time.

In an interview with Grant Morrison in March 2009, he said said he was not actually writingproblem with Dave being in favour of the film, and vice versa. When he suggested that he was worried that our friendship might not survive some of the pressures put on it by the film, I said to him there was no chance of that as long as he just gave me a call and thanked me for the film money when it arrived. And I pointed out that David Lloyd hadn't done that, and that had affected our friendship in that I'm not expecting to have very much to do with David Lloyd in the future. Dave Gibbons assured me that he would phone up and thank me for the film money. He made a typical joke about it. In Dave's jocular fashion, he said that he'd