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"Darwyn Cooke initially turned down the opportunity to work on Before Watchmen. The Richard Stark&amp;#039;s Parker cartoonist is working on the Minutemen and Silk Spectre miniseries as part of DC Comics&amp;#039; controversial project. &amp;quot;I can remember being approached a few years back by [DC Comics co-publisher] Dan DiDio,&amp;quot; Cooke told io9. &amp;quot;My initial response was &amp;#039;absolutely not&amp;#039;. The reason for that was simple - I consider Watchmen a magnificent book, and I just didn&amp;#039;t see doing anything that could live up to it, especially after all of this time. &amp;quot;Dan did his best at that point to get me on board. He let me know he wanted me to handle the Minutemen, but I just couldn&amp;#039;t see it, so I passed. &amp;quot;When you do this stuff for a living, ideas come through your head day in and day out,&amp;quot; Cooke continued. &amp;quot;It was close to a year later, I suppose, the idea for the Minutemen fell into my head. I sat down, plotted a treatment, and it really got me excited. There was something there I could bring to the party, but it didn&amp;#039;t contradict anything [Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons] had done. &amp;quot;It fit perfectly into the scenario they had set up for these characters, so I contacted Dan and told him, &amp;#039;Count me in.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; He later proposed the Silk Spectre title to DiDio, wanting to focus on the character beyond her relationship to the male characters in the story. Cooke will write and illustrate Minutemen and script Silk Spectre alongside artist Amanda Conner. Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 will debut on June 6 with Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 following on June 13. Check out a Before Watchmen covers gallery below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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