DC New Website Has Exclusive ‘Before Watchmen’ Content. Burn It!

Oh goody! There’s a new DC website launching, and it’s going to have oodles if Before Watchmen  content. I wonder if Anonymous is busy?

Gizmodo:

Digital comics are one of the most embraced parts of print publishing going digital, but for whatever reason, comic book publisher websites are consistent eyesores. DC’s launching a new site to try to fix that, and it’s going to bribe you to get there with exclusives on upcoming events like  Before Watchmen, the controversial prequel to Alan Moore’s masterpieceWatchmen. Here’s a Gizmodo-exclusive peek at the new site.

The plan is to get butts in the seats with images like the one you see above, which is the first time you’ve seen the  Before Watchmen  cast together in official art. There will be a bunch more mini-exclusives like it in the next few days. As for the rest of the site, bigger-name characters will have their own “franchise page,” with a list of comics they’ve appeared in, and DC’s working to fill out the profiles of lesser-known faces in the universe. The coolest and most useful part is probably the creator index: The site uses over six years of publishing data to set up an “IMDB of DC Comics” of sorts for writers, artists, and other creators, so you can find and buy any book the creator has worked on.