And that's exactly why Excalibur was a pretty faithful adaptation of the source material.

[Raises hand]

Hagrid is cool when he's talking about Steve Ditko. Less so when he's explaining why he and Dave Gibbons are no longer friends.

Well hey, happy birthday!

Think it's on one of the DVDs.

I was all set to give up on DC too, but Rebirth rekindled my interest. Nightwing, Deathstroke, and Wonder Woman get my dollars every month.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that Joker thing. That was pretty dumb. Although as a way to keep fun, silly, scary Joker and maybe try to ignore creepy, cut his own face off Joker, it's as fine a device as any.

I dunno what Bob Layton's politics are, but I've never doubted that Tony Stark is a Republican. Or that Captain America votes Democrat.

Yeah, well, for Jack and his generation the Nazis weren't boogeymen or the ultimate evil. He literally fought them himself.

Yeah, but you're clearly from Earth-3.

Again, I don't give a fuck about Alan Moore or his bitter, hypocritical opinions. I find the idea of DC mining Watchmen for ideas thirty years after its publication to be creatively lazy and a blatant attempt to boost sales. This idea does not come from a good place, and my opinion is based entirely on the integrity…

Stark was always kind of an asshole. See Galactic Storm and Korvac Saga, and also that time he mind controlled everyone on Earth to forget his secret identity.

For me, it's that Watchman is this discreet, self-contained thing that told a superhero story while commenting on superhero stories and the language thereof, and comic books in general. There's no driving need to mash that together with the current DCU. And I'm the kind of guy who enjoys when Alan Moore gnashes his…

No, but SIXIS was pretty terrible. On that I think we can all actually agree.

Part and parcel of being a card-carrying X-Man, bub.

All this Watchmen in the DCU stuff reminds of the fanboy who once asked Christopher Lee who would win in a fight - Dracula or Saruman? and Lee's response.

Well then, why not just use Captain Atom in the first place? Why use Dr. Manhattan at all?

I guess it was an exaggeration to claim the corporate overlords were invested in continuity, but DC and Marvel certainly are. We wouldn't have the jumping through hoops of Rebirth otherwise, nor the ridiculous claims that the post-Secret Wars reboot wasn't a reboot at Marvel if continuity wasn't a paramount concern to…

Sorry to hear it. At least its Friday. Hopefully the kids will let you sleep in tomorrow.

I used to trust Geoff Johns a lot. His JSA work was (and is) still great, and I loved his Flash. Sinestro War was brilliant. But Blackest Night and everything since really soured me. There was a point where I'd buy anything he did, now… not so much. I still hope he can turn the movies around, though.