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“DC universe V 5.0”?

1.0 Golden Age

2.0 Silver Age
2.7 Kryptonite No More/WGBS/The Bat-Penthouse/DC Bullet

3.0 Crisis on Infinite Earths
3.1 Zero Hour
3.9 Infinite Crisis (The 52)

4.0 New 52
4.2 Rebirth (not a reboot, but a correction, similar to Zero Hour)

Why is using Dr. Manhattan “ethically bankrupt?” CREATIVELY bankrupt maybe, but I’m not sure about the “ethically” bit. BTW, I’m not disagreeing. Just looking for clarity.

Hey whiny fanboys, guess what? You know that Watchmen story you love so much and think no one should ever touch it?

It still exists. It’s still there. No one rewrote it. You can reread it and jerk off to it all you want.

DC owns the characters, not Saint Alan. Get over it.

@Andrew A.,

Alan Moore has expressed that he doesn’t want there to be any other Watchmen comics. There may have even been a verbal agreement, which is why there were no other Watchmen comics for 25 years until Before Watchmen.

Of course DC has the right to do whatever they want, which is why this is ethically repugnant instead of illegal

Thereby retcon-ing the Watchmen movie into the DC Cinematic Expanded Universe or whatever it is they’re calling it, retroactively establishing a foundation for who-knows-what.

I don’t know why ComicsBeat included the apologist line to Bleeding Cool. If BC hadn’t run the story, spoilers wouldn’t be running rampant right now.

Torsten Adair – I’ve heard your v2.7 era labelled the “relevance era” for DC in the past. I like to think that there was some kind of secret crisis that happened some time around 1970 because the shift from Silver Age stories to the Denny O’Neil-type “relevance era” stories is abrupt enough that it feels like a different version of the same universe. I’d probably consider that a 3.0 shift rather than just a change in the minor version number myself.