Where do I start with this? I know there's 12 issues, but then I see all the 'Before' titles...

Where do I start with this? I know there's 12 issues, but then I see all the 'Before' titles. Are those supposed to be read before or after the main 12 issues? Should they be read at all?

Don't read any of Before Watchmen, it was a shameless shitty cashgrab.
Just pick of Watchmen and read it.

Fuck, I know it's bait but I still want to bitch about it.

Do you really think that a series called "Before Watchmen" was released before a series called "Watchmen" existed?

>Should they be read at all?
Consensus was that Minutemen and Silk Spectre were the only worthwhile ones.

Johns is definitely gonna use elements of Before Watchmen in Doomsday Clock though, right?

maybe I'm retarded but I can't tell if this is bait or not

The Ozzy one had neat art.

I doubt it.

>ask if something should be read or avoided
>somehow this is bait
Gee, would be nice if you used these 'bait' spotting skills on shitty Sup Forums threads.

I'll probably skip them then. Thanks Anons.

So did the Minutemen one

--- CORRECT WATCHMEN FRANCHISE READING ORDER ---

Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1-2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1-2
Watchmen #1
Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1-6
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
>At this point watch the first 30 minutes of Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3-4
Watchmen #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1-2
>Watch another 15 minutes of the Watchmen movie
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3-4
Watchmen #3-6
Doomsday Clock #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2-6
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5-6
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2-3
Watchmen #7
>Watch another 30 seconds of the Snyder Watchmen movie
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1-2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2 & #4
>Read everything up to this point again but only the pirate bits
Watchmen #9
>Watch the rest of the Watchmen movie
Watchmen #8, then #10-11
>Read Neonomicon and Jerusalem
Watchmen #12
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
>Watch the Watchmen movie on rewind

Yeah. It's a shame Darwyn Cooke never got to do his own originally-planned thing. And I guess I should have posted an example of the Ozymandias art rather than the Comedian one.

Why did Eddie kill Bobby Kennedy?

Why are Neonomicon and Jerusalem on there?

Start with Gibbons/Moore. Next, read what interests you.

Some suggestions:
Read Pax Americana
Read about the original Charlton characters
Read Mister A
Read Zot!

They're essential to fully understanding the work.

no even he said all you need to read is watchmen. i think he knows how much of a failure before watchmen was.

>Read Mister A
I never got to read that ;C

Well then I guess don't read Doomsday cock. Problem solved!

I don't know where to find Mr.A

here

:c

Why are you doing that

what? 0:

I only read the night owl one because it had Andy and Joe Kubert drawing it.

>Jersusalem and Neonomicon aren't split up
get your shit together

People are asking if it's bait because the question is so immensely stupid they can't believe someone could seriously ask it

Read Watchmen. Don't read Before Watchmen. Don't watch the movie. Don't read Doomsday Clock.

What was his own planned thing?

Like most stuff, read it in the order they came out.

Before Watchmen wasn't very good, but it also missed the point of a lot of stuff in the original (specifically the Kennedy's)...

Read Watchmen
Ignore Before Watchmen
Ignore Doomsday Clock
Ignore anything Watchmen related not written by Alan Moore
Maybe read Multiversity Pax Americana