J. Michael Straczynski had a very busy weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con International earlier this month; in addition to announcing projects with Image Comics and Legendary Comics, he managed to squeeze in a little time promoting the Before Watchmen miniseries that he’s writing for DC Entertainment, a controversial venture made only more controversial by Straczynski’s own comments at a convention earlier this year.Straczynski, the writer of Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan with artist Adam Hughes and Before Watchmen: Nite Owlwith Joe and Andy Kubert, was quoted at that show defending DC by comparing the “bad contract” that Watchmen co-creators Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons had signed in the 1980s to contracts signed by the likes of Jack Kirby at Marvel and, most provocatively, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster at DC. Many fans, who were already on the fence in terms of their feelings about the project, leapt on his comments and accused the writer of justifying “bad behavior” in the present by pointing to a precedent of “bad bevhavior” in the past, and expressed that his comments actually did more to vilify DC than to vindicate them.
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