Poor Alan Moore - everyone keeps exploiting his ideas!

Source: AP

Sources embedded deep inside Alan Moore's beard informed The Outhouse today that the legendary creator is very upset to learn that Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," will publish a sequel to Moore's seminal work, "Watchmen" (not to be confused with his fish-semenal work, "Neonomicon"). Titled "Go Set a Watchman," the sequel was actually written in 1950, several decades before Moore first published Watchmen, making the insult even more stinging. It will mark only the second book the 88 year old author has ever published, making her even slower to produce new work than her younger cousin, DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee. It is unknown why she would choose to write a sequel to another author's work rather than her own, but insiders speculate that it may have to do with the reluctance of Marvel Comics to give Lee the rights back to the book's title character.

"When are modern creators going to come up with ideas of their own and stop pulling them out of my rubbish bins?" asked an angry Moore after hearing about the plans. Moore was particularly aggrieved back in 2012 when DC Comics created a super-mega-crossover event style prequel to Watchmen called Before Watchmen. In addition to believing that all modern comic creators rip him off, Moore also believes that all modern comic creators are actual cartoon raccoons who literally rummage through his trash bins at night. "They're not getting past me again," insisted a crazed Moore, dressed in a Dickensian sleeping gown and night hat and brandishing an axe.

In response to Moore's protests, a spokesman for Harper Lee told The Outhouse that the author has no idea what Moore is talking about, that Go Set a Watchman has nothing to do with Moore's Watchmen, and that there are no plans in the works to produce To Kill A Mockingbird themed toasters, though she's not immediately adverse to the idea. Look for Go Set a Watchmen in stores and digital outlets this July.