Watchmen 2 rapes everything you hold dear, apparently

Via io9 and Bleeding Cool, it looks pretty certain that some form of official Watchmen-related story is going to be made.  The response is as you’d expect.  The io9 category: “PLEASE GOD NO.” 

Let us remake them in their own images

Stories have been retold for ages.  The Romans stole the Greek pantheon, changing the names, tweaking the stories, and reselling Greek mythology as Roman mythology.  Thomas Malory assembled known tales about Arthur and his knights into his grand compendium, Le Morte d’Arthur, which serves as one of the ur-texts of Arthurian legend, even though it was more a personalized feat of scholarship rather than an origination.  And how about the Bible?  Hundreds — thousands — of stories have re-interpreted the tropes of the Christ story in various ways to different purposes.  One of the most venerated retellings of Biblical mythology, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, is my favorite work of literature to date.  And what of that most famous of English wordsmiths, William “the Bard” Shakespeare?  Besides his historical dramas (which are unsourced reinterpretations of well-known events), many of his other plays are also based on pre-existing stories and legends, some of which had already been dramatized by other playwrights.  James Joyce’s Ulysses, considered by many to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is an imaginative reworking of Homer’s Odyssey.