Let's discuss the elephant in the room: Dr Manhattan's dick.
How will DC censor it? Will he be wearing underpants again? Will he just not have a dick anymore because he doesn't need it? Will there always be a convenient object in the way protecting the eyes of innocent children?
You can just draw around it, y'know
>>83030349
>he doesn't need it
What?
>Will there always be a convenient object in the way protecting the eyes of innocent children?
This is the best way.
>>83030349
What is up with all these Dr. Manhattan/DC threads?
Are doing a cross over?
Wouldn't that take a huge dump on Moore's legacy?lol
Don't follow DC so I'm completely lost.
>>83030349
There will be no full body shots of him.
>>83030728
new fify was all a dream
Maybe he doesn't have a dick anymore?
>>83030349
It would be hilarious if every shot blocks it, until one very late scene which shows ... nothing there.
>>83030728
yes
no because Moore hates what he's stuck with as a legacy and hates his fanboys
>>83030547
>>he doesn't need it
>What?
>>83030795
this
>>83030802
that guy needs to chill
>>83030795
Make it an homage to that Simpsons scene
>>83030755
>new fify was all a dream
Okay..?
Are they doing a new-new52, or going back to whatever was before?
Wasn't new52 pretty new as it is?
Is DC-Comics completely retarded or is this part of some master scheme?
>>83030948
We don't know, the book isn't out yet.
>>83030948
new 52 is pre52, Doctor Manhattan fucked around
>>83030948
>Is DC-Comics completely retarded
yes
Make it bigger
>>83031029
This would indeed be the best solution
>>83030802
>no because Moore hates what he's stuck with as a legacy and hates his fanboys
Exactly. Fuck him
>>83030948
It's not a dream. He's fucking with you
They'll just do pic related
>>83030349
Blue penis, never in panel
>>83031225
Plus, Dr. Manhattan wearing pants again would actually be indicative that he now feels closer to humanity.
In Watchmen, he progressively removed more clothes the more dettached he became.
>>83030349
>How will DC censor it?
He'll probably end up in some kind of armor because that's what DC likes doing.
>>83032509
I want Jim Lee to design him a new costume akin to the ones he did for everyone else in the New 52 and then explain why Dr. Manhattan needs to wear a suit of armor.
Isn't Captain Atom like a Super Dr Manhattan now?
>>83030349
He will just have a dick, don't make a big deal of it.
>>83032741
WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!? THEY CAN'T SEE A DICK! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT HAPPENS TO CHILDREN WHEN THEY SEE A DICK!? NEITHER DO I BUT I'M GOING TO ACT OUTRAGED AT THE VERY IDEA THAT MY CHILD MIGHT SEE A DICK IN A COMIC BOOK!
>>83030728
Anyone else want to break the news to this guy?
Batman will tell him to put some pants on. It'll be metacommentary on how edgy Watchemen was by showing a naked man.
>>83030349
HAHA! Elephant!
>>83032741
You don't understand Americans. They're a bunch of puritans who will scream to high heaven if they see a dick, a vagina or a nipple in anything not Rated 18+.
>Will there always be a convenient object in the way protecting the eyes of innocent children?
pretty much this
Are we allowed to post pictures of nude Dr. Manhattan here? It's not pornographic, it's artistic nudity, and it's historical to comics.
>>83033534
We're allowed, the OP pic is simply a joke
>>83030728
Watchmen is now fully in the same universe as whatever the fuck the main universe is called now. Comedian infiltrated the Batcave.
>>83032548
Oh fuck, I hadn't even considered the Jim Lee angle.
He's going to do it, isn't he? For all of them. They've probably got a Watchmen 2 announcement ready to go at SDCC.
>>83033938
Post-Rebirth will likely be the tag, though Afterbirth would be funnier.
>>83033938
Wait what? Seriously?
>>83030349
Is Watchmen and the DC U combined come Rebirth? Or am I reading this wrong
>>83034040
Apparently, Dr. Manhattan was behind the effects of Flashpoint and the New 52
>>83030349
>How will DC censor it?
Diane Nelson hates dick
>>83030547
>What?
he only fucks whats her name out of habit, he doesn't really care
and its not like he has to pee anymore
>>83034277
She won't when Feige gets done with her. Then mysteriously, Disney will own the film rights for all of DC's properties.
>>83034072
>They call me... Doctor Speedforce! I gangbanged my own wife and now I'm gonna do the same to every one of you!
>>83034072
i'm done
>>83030948
So imagine you're cooking a nice thick porkchop.
It's good, tasty. Maybe a little dry. You know you could do better and that there's something missing.
So you cut that fucker down the middle and stuff it with some goat cheese and dice apricots or some shit and blam, now you've got a really tasty, complete Pork Chop.
The New 52 is the Pork Chop and the Pre-52 universe is that stuffing. They're slicing it open partway through and injecting everything they want to port over from the old universe right in the middle of it.
>>83030349
>Will there always be a convenient object in the way protecting the eyes of innocent children?
This please, and sometimes text balloons!
>>83033938
>>83034072
Whoa whoa what the fuck
>>83035663
>>83034040
>>83033938
sorry, should have posted this originally for the avoidance of doubt
it's official: DC is finished
>>83035663
he went full retard.
and dc let him because they're thinking of the $$$ from more watchmen material
>>83035735
>>83035762
I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. Why would I have hope, ever. At least there's tons of old comics I can just read forever.
>>83035735
The fact that there are people on this board that think this is a good idea makes me want to dump this place altogether.
>>83035762
I think he's still mad as shit about Moore's comments on Blackest Night.
>I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night] in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page stories that I did 25 or 30 years ago. I would have thought that would seem kind of desperate and humiliating, When I have said in interviews that it doesn't look like the American comic book industry has had an idea of its own in the past 20 or 30 years, I was just being mean. I didn't expect the companies concerned to more or less say, "Yeah, he's right. Let's see if we can find another one of his stories from 30 years ago to turn into some spectacular saga." It's tragic. The comics that I read as a kid that inspired me were full of ideas. They didn't need some upstart from England to come over there and tell them how to do comics. They'd got plenty of ideas of their own. But these days, I increasingly get a sense of the comics industry going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of the night.
I'LL SHOW YOU ALAN MOORE! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET!
>>83035903
It's a good idea because people like you. It never should be held to such a standard conceptually (only the execution is noteworthy) and blaming it for the "adulting" of comics is completely fair.
>>83035938
Not saying he's wrong and Johns is right, but when was the last time Moore wrote anything worth reading?
>>83035903
It really isn't much better elsewhere, trust me. As horrible as it is to imagine, if anything its slightly better here than a lot of places.
>>83036019
Providence is fantastic, and that's currently ongoing.
He'll be wearing red trunks and at the end of the story when he has made peace with the heroes and is about to disappear he'll take them off and give them to Superman who will wear them in his memory finally justifying why Superman wears underwear on the outside of his pants.
>>83035938
Goddamn it, whenever I want to stop considering Moore kind of a tool, there's that fucking quote.
>>83036019
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was always good.
>>83036145
Alan Moore is still a whiny bitch that needs to keep his mouth shut.
>>83035866
>>83035903
>>83035762
I'm not 100% sure about this, but here's a theory:
>DC Comics, part of DC Entertainment since 2011, finally moves to Burbank in 2015
>sales on the comics finally come under the kind of scrutiny they should always have been under - the kind that led most big publishing groups to pull out of the comics market decades ago
>DCC's bosses - Johns, DiDio, Lee, Harrass - push for one last chance to make it work, reasoning that there's a lot of room for overlap between comics, tv and movie audiences, and that the falling sales of 2015-> mean even if they screw up and kill off the comics audience completely, it won't really have cost any more than shutting it all down
>at this point it becomes necessary to make concessions to what used to be the studio side of DCE thousands of miles away but is now just people over the table at the meeting; it's harder to look them in the eye and bullshit that "sales will pick up" and you "have a plan"
>likewise the studio guys are having trouble pretending it's all fine
>someone mentions Zack Snyder and the DCEU
>someone mentions Watchmen
>Johns mentions Green Lantern
>someone else mentions Deadpool
>"We still have Ryan Reynolds under contract and we've refused Snyder permission to recast, because we could then use the existing movie and development work for the DCEU"
>Johns isn't opposed to the idea of bringing Reynolds back and getting his old producer gig back on a new Green Lantern movie
>Foghorn Nelson "I wonder, I say I wonder, could we bring in Watchmen to this here Dee Cee Entertainment Universe? It has I say IT HAS the same director, we could call it a prequel and tie it in somehow.... Geoff, you're writing the new Batman movie, right?"
>uhh
>"We'll make I say WE WILL MAKE a lot of money here, m'boy!"
>Harrass "Why are we all listening to her? She's a chicken, I tells ya! She's nothing but a giant chicken!"
>"Well boy what do you I say what do you say? There's a whole lot of cereal in it for ya!"
>>83036204
The most entertaining thing Alan Moore has done since the 90s has been talk shit about other comic writers though. I get laugh pretty much every time he opens his mouth.
>>83036145
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what he's saying. Blackest Night might have redeemed itself if it was good, but it wasn't. It was just a two-year event dragged out of an 8-page story from 30 years ago.
If you're going canoning, at least make your own stories compelling. It's not enough that you want to tell them, they have to have a wider appeal than "you and your buddies think it's cool".
>>83036176
Century devolved into a MODERN FICTION SUCKS, THINGS WERE BETTER BACK IN MY DAY rant though
>>83036288
He wrote that Blackest Night story for DC so there's no reason why a writer who now works for DC can't or shouldn't use it for one of their own stories. It's the same thing as someone getting mad that DC is using a character they created while they were working for them but is now letting someone else write them. The character and their stories are owned by DC, not you, therefore DC is allowed to do whatever they want with them regardless of whether you agree or not.
>>83036395
He's not debating DC's ownership, his point is that he's a bit mystified why they're digging up something he wrote thirty years ago in the first place rather than coming up with something fresh and new on their own.
>>83036362
Nah, this is like if Waid got mad at someone using the speed force 10 years from now. It's retarded.
Concepts that get introduced should be reused. That's the point of writing at the big 2 at all.
>>83036395
>The character and their stories are owned by DC, not you,
We have no claims to any of these characters and we shit on stories all the time. This just sounds like a fanboy upset from Alan Moore's banter because it's too spot on it hurts his rump.
>>83036554
Thing is, I doubt Johns wrote Blackest Night because of Moore. Johns decided he wanted to do a story like Blackest Night, and he decided to integrate a famous story by Moore into it to give it more impact and deepen the lore.
Keep in mind, the prophecy given in that story is pretty different from the final result. Moore certainly didn't predict several Lantern Corps, Zombies and all that other stuff.
>>83030349
As long as it's never erect.
>>83036720
I thought I was the only one who remembered that.
>>83036720
>>83036750
What is this a reference to?
A friend at school gave me Watchmen to read when I was like 11, and my mother took it away from me because of Dr Manhatten's dick.
Such is the way of life.
>>83031029
Blue dick on a blue board. It seems fitting, somehow.
>>83030349
>the elephant in the room: Dr Manhattan's dick
it's not that impressive
>>83037082
A yahoo movie review of the Watchmen movie, though now I can't find it because Google won't let me go to Yahoo.
So can Manhattan achieve any form of climax since he basically has a cosmic cock.
>>83037243
>>83036086
>>83035735
What title is this from?
>>83036561
It's not at all like that. It's like if the Speedforce was introduced and nobody used it for 30 years and then they made a shitty event out of it for three years.
>>83036633
There wasn't space to predict shit in an 8-page comic. Johns had to come up with a lot of filler.
>>83037628
Afterbirth #1
>>83031225
Kek,i kinda want his dick out in that panel so the vietcong would come to fear his dick.
>>83037780
>There wasn't space to predict shit in an 8-page comic. Johns had to come up with a lot of filler.
It wasn't filler, what Johns wrote was the meat of the story, his story. He merely took Moore's stuff as background to the lore.
>>83035866
you know, I'm not the biggest comics guy, but I sometimes wonder just how bad or good it would be if Marvel and DC just shut down and never did anything ever again. It's not like I WANT it to happen and hell, Marvel's probably making more bank now than they ever did, but at this point I don't think we'd be so boned if it did.
TL:DR - maybe hitting "reset" on the entire comics industry might not be the worst thing ever.
>>83034834
I require your services.
Anyone got the image of Doctor Manhattan sad with Kingpin, Keanu Reaves, Wolverine, and other dudes shopped into it?
>>83037780
Johns' run was really not about Blackest Night specifically. It was the rainbow corps. He was just building off what was already there with Sinestro's ring and the Star Sapphires and extrapolated that into a run. Doesn't make sense to overstate the importance of the Moore story here unless you have an axe to grind like Moore does.
Also remember that the point of Moore's story was to explain why Abin Sur had a spaceship.
Holy fuck. Why am I only hearing about this now?
>>83040024
Because the issue isn't out yet. We only know because someone on leddit leaked it and DC then lifted their spoiler embargo for official sites
>DC Rebirth gets leaked
>Johnston writes an article about it instead of getting pissy
>Marvel's Civil War 2 FCBD issue gets leaked
>Johnston gets bootyblasted
Well, which one is it, Rich? You don't get to have it both ways, ya know.
I want to discuss the bigger elephant.
Why do people keep calling Watchmen a deconstruction of overly serious heroes when it isn't? Just because Moore retroactively says so? Because the comic itself is in line with white a few things he himself had wrote and caused the very thing people noe say it deconstructed.
>>83033938
It is not. That is not what happens stop lying on the internet.
>>83033401
This.
>>83035938
Moor certainly has a lot to say about current cape comics when he also says he hasn't actually read any for almost 15 years. The mans a cunt
>>83040731
Because people are chucklefuck tropers that don't know what deconstruction is.
>practical
Wearing his black man thong
>Comical
Conveniently covered by props and word baloons
>Metaphysical
The thing he stole from the DC universe was Superman's red trunks.
Why can't someone unironically ask him to put clothes on? To hear his response.
>>83043026
>I have no need for clothes and I find them uncomfortable, there is no point in me wearing them
>>83030349
glowing crotch glare covers benis
>>83035938
>But these days, I increasingly get a sense of the comics industry going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of the night.
For DC, he's on point.
>>83036086
I'd accept this only if he threw them at Superman while saying "Hey kid, catch".
>>83034277
>'
who?
>>83035938
when has Alan Moore ever had a good run on a character he created?
for that matter, when was a Silver Age comic not based on mythology or recent sci-fi?
>>83035938
can someone storytime this 8-page story? Now I'm super-interested.
>>83045370
Feel free to storytime it yourself
>https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-legendary-empire-of-tears/
>>83045247
Top Ten wasn't based on anything else, or direct pastiches.
>>83035938
Alan Moore is always 100% right and /co/ gets buttblasted by the truth he speaks.
>>83045542
>>https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-legendary-empire-of-tears/
hey, thats 14 pages!
>TFW Even Watchmen is in DC but no Doom Patrol
>>83035203
no
>tiny pickles
caption
Fail
>>83048854
They literally announced a Doom Patrol ongoing already by Gerard Way
>>83030349
why would doc manhattan not uses his powers to fuck every woman on earth all the time
>>83049314
Wait, what? They were confirmed to not be in the "DC Rebirth" thing.
I remember asking my big brother about Dr Manhatten when I was like 6 and being told it was none of my business. Thusly I learned about naked men.
>>83049383
They're in the Young Animal launch but it's probably still DCU. There's a book set in Gotham in that line.
>>83040731
because it's morally opposed to the precepts of superheroes? that of maverick individualism, uncompromising moral rectitude, incorruptibility, and humanism?
i mean did you miss the part where owl dresses up as a way to deal with his sexual impotence? how more on the nose does a critique have to be?
>>83049262
those are toothpicks
>>83030349
they'll panel it carefully enough so that you never see his bottom
>>83030349
They're going to completely embrace his nudity. We're going to get a panel of Dr. Manhattan bending over and we'll see his blue asshole for the first time.
>>83052337
been there done that
Remember that old Watchmen thread here in /co/? The one that jokes about Manhattan's dick is so big, every panel in the page is covered by his humongous junk. I remember something about vietnamese seeing his massive johnson rising up in the horizon to the sound of ride of the valkyrie. That was a great thread.
