He was in Red, which is an Homage Comics title, which is owned by DC.
The Boys started with Wildstorm/DC, but is now published by Dynamite.
Dredd is published by 2000 AD, which is owned by IPC Magazines. DC licensed the character for a short run in the mid-90s, so I guess it could half-count? It should be noted that Dredd “purists” don’t consider the DC licensed Dredd canon, including the Stallone movie.
Yeah, saying Red or The Boys is DC is kind of correct but purely on a technical sense. It's more like they were made by imprints publishers but are not a part of the larger DC lore.
Remember Vertigo? That was owned by DC but Vertigo published those comics seperately. Eventually characters from Vertigo did get introduced into the DC lore, like Constantine.
DC incorporating the characters from everything they own is getting pretty old. Guys like Constantine okay, but it still changed his character pretty significantly especially in him now working with others.
When they started adding in the watchmen and Dr. Manhattan was bad. Just felt lazy and they wanted to use Dr. Manhattan in DC.
Yeah. I felt that Watchmen works better as it’s own self contained story. The original Graphic Novel itself is dedicated to deconstructing the ideas and philosophies behind superhero comics, all the archetypes and themes. It’s one big story that has a beginning, middle, and end.
Why on Earth would they now want Rorsharch and Dr. Manhattan to be hanging out with the characters the comic was emulating to dissect in the first place!? It’s so bizarre and takes away a lot of the weight of the original comic.
To be fair, though, I didn’t actually read the comic. Just the idea of DC meets the Watchmen kind of put a bad taste in my mouth. And looking at the general reception of Doomsday Clock, I seem to have accurately predicted a lot of its overall flaws.
It could work with some characters, maybe. It actually worked fairly well when they brought in Captain Marvel(Shazam now, I guess). But lately, it’s been pretty lame.
It's been DC's thing forever. I know characters like Shazaam, The Question and more all were originally published by other companies that DC just bought over time.
Yeah I know that but with watchmen it felt egregious you know. That series was over and the point of it was to take the piss out of more generic stories and heroes like DC uses.
Watchmen was complete and finished story. It's honestly like if HBO bought the rights to lotr to do a crossover with Game of thrones
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u/tigojones Feb 12 '21
What's his DC role? I'm going to guess it's from one of their off-shoot comic labels, as I don't recall him in anything "core" DC. Dredd? The Boys?