You sound awfully sure of this. What have you run across that led you to this conclusion?

It shows bad faith towards the studios that bailed Marvel out. If it wasn't for Fox, Sony, and Universal, Marvel wouldn't be around today.

Are you married to that?

You're overlooking the most obvious option of not mentioning it at all.

Those aren't the only two options, friend.

If you must.

The article doesn't explain why having one director instead of another one would matter to a director's strike.

Damn, I love AV Club commenters. They alone continue to believe that bagging on BvS and/or Snyder is still the height of comedy. Or that it ever was.

Oh my!

The other L word.

Hence the "I imagined"

I did manage to yell "from a pig!" loud enough for my neighbors to notice.

Damn I love hipsters.

Batman isn't in the Watchmen universe. For that matter, Watchmen isn't in the Batman universe. It's just the smiley face button for now.

But he didn't understand the conditions under which this reversion could be delayed?

My favorite was the Booster Gold / Flintstones one.

This seems like pretty specious reasoning. Dead creator vs. live creator making a difference for what's acceptable is a red herring.

"Folding the Watchmen into the DCU is beyond distasteful to me."

Simple answer is because it's not a single world. Multiverse, bitches! *mic drop*

Nope, it all checks out.