Today's the
day. Today it begins. The series I have been dreading since the DC
Rebirth one-shot hit, the
potentially horrible punchline at the end of all the good things the
entire Rebirth initiative has achieved.
So
here's my issue. I have adored the whole groundwork for this.
Superman Reborn, A
Lonely Place of Living, all the
other little bits and pieces hinting towards the conspiracy
underlying the whole DC Universe. Unfortunately, we've known since
day one that the whole conspiracy somehow involves the mad idea of
introducing the Watchmen character to the DCU proper.
I'm
not exactly crazy about this idea.
I
mean, the whole point of Watchmen is to be a satire of how disastrous superheroes would be in the real
world. The DC Universe is not the real world, is actually in fact
defined by having a lot of cities and trappings that separate it very
much from the real world.
Essentially,
I question the sanity of introducing satire characters to the world
they were meant to satirise.
That
having been said I'm on board for the first issue at least because,
well... the car crash mentality in the main but also because every
step up to this point has been enjoyable and I have the tiniest
scintilla of a hope that maybe this has actually been thought through
enough to work.
Just
the tiniest bit.
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