JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1-29 (Steve Orlando / Collectif)

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L’article de Bleeding Cool pointe un élément intéressant sur les rôles subséquents de Paul Levitz et de Geoff Johns chez DC par rapport au legs de Moore :

For a long time at DC Comics, when Paul Levitz was Publisher and President, there were definite limits on what could and couldn’t be done with Alan Moore’s contributions to the company that DC either owned, co-owned, or had control of. While Moore had sworn off working with DC Comics and had personal enmity with Levitz over the handling of Cobweb in Tomorrow Stories and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Levitz did stamp down on a planned series of Watchmen prequels. The ABC characters stayed within the ABC line of books, and writers and artists talked to Alan Moore before working on those characters again — often like they were friends or colleagues of Alan, such as Zander Cannon and Pete Hogan.

Then things changed. Paul Levitz was offered demotion, but chose redundancy. Diane Nelson become President, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio became co-publishers, and Geoff Johns became Chief Creative Officer. Johns plundered chunks of Alan Moore’s Green Lantern short stories and turned them into Blackest Night and the like, and before long, DC Comics went after the holy grail, Watchmen, first with Before Watchmen prequels and now DC Rebirth and Doomsday Clock, introducing the Watchmen characters into the DC Universe.

We wondered what might come next. V 5 Vendetta, perhaps?

And now we know.

Histoire de verser du sel sur les plaies, l’article rappelle aussi, un peu plus loin, que Williams avait conditionné son bref retour chez DC pour Sandman: Overture à la publication d’une grande édition de Promethea, façon Absolute mais au format « à l’italienne » (annoncée il y a une demi-douzaine d’années maintenant sous le titre The Promethea Immateria), et qu’on l’attend toujours…