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What. The. F?!??!?

(I came waaaaaay too close to writing out that full word, folks. Only the better angels of my nature intervened, but not nearly enough.)

“It’s a joke. It’s all a joke.”

Except it’s not. This is actually happening.

Why? Well from the story at IGN’s Comics News…

“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”

DiDio and Lee don’t have an effin’ clue, do they? Makes me wonder if they’ve even read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic graphic novel. Me, I’ve read Watchmen at least 200 times since ...

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is rightly considered to be the most praised graphic novel of all time. And the long-awaited motion picture adaptation has introduced it to many who had never read it before (it’s currently the #1 selling book on Amazon.com). But have you ever wondered what Watchmen would have been like if it were written by someone else?

Like, say… Stan “The Man” Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and Hulk and the Fantastic Four, among many other characters?

Comic book writer and commentator Kevin Church recently revisited his 2006 article “Just Imagine… Stan Lee Creating Watchmen“. It is a howling scream of a hilarious read!

Now all we need is for someone to show us what Watchmen would have looked like if Jack “The King” Kirby had drawn it 😛...

DC Comics is making WATCHMEN 2. No, really.

If Stan Lee had written WATCHMEN…