Who'd Watch the Next Watchmen?

That's, indirectly, the question Graeme McMillan asked on io9 over the weekend, saying if a second movie based on Alan Moore's rightfully beloved comics gets made, it should probably be a sequel, rather than a prequel.  I agree to a certain extent.  The world after the giant squid as more strictly undeveloped potential, and could potentially justify a repeal of the Keene Act leading to a masked resurgence.  At the same time, I feel sort of sentimental over the Minutemen, the original slate of superheroes in Moore's comic.  The opening credits of Watchmen were lovely, and the storytelling was understated and inferential in a way the rest of the movie decidedly was...not.  Even though we already know how it ends, I'd like to see those dynamics play out, particularly because, since Silhouette, The Hooded Justice, and Captain Metropolis were all gay, a prequel could be a powerful movie about sexual integrity and compromise in the thirties and forties.  That movie, however, would almost certainly never be made and sold aggressively by a studio that seems to want to recoup some of it losses from the franchise's first outing.  More's the pity.  It could be a brilliant gift to gay and allied comics fans everywhere, who have gotten nothing but straight superheroes from the movies in this resurgence of comic book movies.