Nobody's ever dead.

Does Alan Moore think it's a good adaptation?

I remember them well. They can both be summarized by "Character sings a song." This was a whole B-plot squeezed into 30 seconds.

I don't see anybody filling you in:

YES. I ctrl-F'd Jellyfish and found this post.

On second view, I noticed that the captain keeps a sandwich in his office safe!

What I remember my impression of Candlebox being when they came out was that there were a bunch of guys in separate rooms working on this from the ground up.  The songs were never something I even thought about, because they never felt like songs to me, so much as the end result of a relay-race-style approach to track…

I was just about to post something to this effect when I realized that the comments had it covered.  It's horrifying when bullies play the victim.  "Nobody likes me, and all I did was threaten, berate, and belittle everybody in sight at all times!"

I think the big question to ask is whether Buddy "Guy Watty White Was Based On" Miller is staying on.  If he is, the project is guaranteed to stay on-message musically.