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" Dave Gibbons has dismissed DC Comics&amp;#039; Before Watchmen as an out-of-canon project. The artist and co-creator of the original Watchmen series said that the spinoff, film and video games cannot touch what he and Alan Moore created, reports Eurogamer.   &amp;quot;It was a little bit out of my control, but they actually paid me quite a lot of money to be a consultant on it,&amp;quot; Gibbons said of Before Watchmen during an interview at the GameCity Nottingham festival. &amp;quot;I looked at two of the cut scenes and drew over a bit of artwork to show how I would draw it. That&amp;#039;s what they paid me... well, I&amp;#039;d be embarrassed to tell you how many thousand dollars for. But I was a distant consultant. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t have a lot of input in it. To me anything to do with the movies - as far as I&amp;#039;m concerned, what Alan and I did was the Watchmen graphic novel and a couple of illustrations that came out at the same time. Everything else - the movie, the game, the prequels - are really not canon. They&amp;#039;re subsidiary. They&amp;#039;re not really Watchmen. They&amp;#039;re just something different. &amp;quot;So I was quite happy to say with the video game, yeah, I like that, and I don&amp;#039;t like that, and, that&amp;#039;s okay, because it wasn&amp;#039;t really anything that impinged on what we&amp;#039;d done creatively.&amp;quot; Gibbons has drawn some criticism for supporting the DC Comics&amp;#039; prequel project, which Moore has strongly opposed. Watch the full interview with Gibbons below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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