02-13-2017, 04:45 PM
Did you know that Watchmen started out as a story based on already existing characters? Sometime around the 80's, DC had acquired some characters from the defunct Charlton Comics. At the same time, Alan Moore was looking to make a story that featured an unused line of superheroes that he could revamp. Moore saw the new characters as "a nice, innocent little bunch of characters -- and there was a self-contained universe with four or five characters, and I thought it’d be nice to just take that and do whatever you wanted with it." This would have turned into a murder mystery called "Who killed the Peacemaker?".
Naturally, when you just bought something, you don't want other people braking it. So when Moore gave his idea to Dick Giordano (executive editor) loved the idea, but "didn’t want to give his babies to the butchers," which Moore admitted was what he was going to do. Instead, he was asked to change the characters around and come up with some new ones. This is how The Question became Rorschach, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) became Nite Owl, and so on. My favorite part about this is that you can sometimes tell who is meant to be whom (EX. Nite Owl is the second version of the name and has a big ovalish flying ship).
Naturally, when you just bought something, you don't want other people braking it. So when Moore gave his idea to Dick Giordano (executive editor) loved the idea, but "didn’t want to give his babies to the butchers," which Moore admitted was what he was going to do. Instead, he was asked to change the characters around and come up with some new ones. This is how The Question became Rorschach, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) became Nite Owl, and so on. My favorite part about this is that you can sometimes tell who is meant to be whom (EX. Nite Owl is the second version of the name and has a big ovalish flying ship).