The thing is, and this is directed at no one here, if someone like Paul Cornell or Grant Morrison wrote a prequel or sequel, people would be all over it.  Even if they had already denounced such a thing as a "travesty".

I do not see the need for an expansion of Watchmen in any way, shape or form.  The story had a definite end to it, and we got the backstory with it as well.

Why would it have to have anything to do with the story? DKR and Year One are great stories, but does either of them mean that there should never be other stories about Batman?

New stories about the Watchmen characters, set either before or after the events of the series, needn't be in the style or adopt the tone of the series at all.

IMP.

the watchmen series is dirty and grimmy like moore....every time I see this stuff it makes me want to wash my hands incessantly....

I think the only way I'd buy a Watchmen prequel or sequel is if Dave Gibbons did the art. I wouldn't have any interest past that. Both are rotten ideas.

I do find it interesting that Paul Levitz was the one stopping any "new" Watchmen projects. As soon as he is gone DC is making all the moves to bleed this cash cow dry.

Why would it have to have anything to do with the story? DKR and Year One are great stories, but does either of them mean that there should never be other stories about Batman?

New stories about the Watchmen characters, set either before or after the events of the series, needn't be in the style or adopt the tone of the series at all.

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These characters wouldn't even exist were it not for Watchmen, which is complete in and of itself. There were not decades of Nite Owl stories before it and there haven't been any since then, and the world hasn't lamented about all the great Nite Owl stories that could have been if only...

Sequels have a bad habit of diminishing the very thing they love, especially sequels that come this long after the original story. Name a sequel that came 20 years after the fact that wasn't declared a major disappointment by the fans of the series... and everyone else for that matter.

That's why you don't make another Watchmen. There's no where to go but down.

I like this quote from Woody Allen on why he rejected the thought of doing a sequel to Annie Hall.

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I did think once - I'm not going to do it - but I did thinkonce that it would be interesting to see Annie Hall and the guy I played yearslater. Diane Keaton and I could meet now that we're about twenty years older,and it could be interesting, because we parted, to meet one day and see whatour lives have become. But it smacks to me of exploitation....Sequelism hasbecome an annoying thing. I don't think Francis Coppola should have done GodfatherIII because Godfather II was quite great. When they make a sequel,it's just a thirst for more money, so I don't like that idea so much