So, Neil Gaiman...(Part 2)

Part 1.

A.K.A. dismantling Sandman part 1.

So, yeah, I haven't been logging it anymore, but I've kept up putting printouts on my wall to have something to look at and focus my mind on when I'm bored.

Well, as you can likely guess, I had the poster for the fucking Sandman show up.

Yeah.

Well, at least it was only that, and not the covers off all the books.

Anyhoo...

Then, I realized, the whole row it was in was problematic.

I had fucking Whedon-cut Justice League with Ezra Miller Flash, and Flash with Ezra Miller Flash, and Watchmen directed by Snyder, and written by Alan Moore, and Alan Moore is a coke addled misanthropic asshole who shits all over comic fandom, and the cherry on top is he discovered Neil Gaiman.

So storm cloud of bad mojo over all of that.

So, after a long narrowing down process, I replaced it with....

Crisis On Infinite Earths (2020)

Original review.

I had part 1 up already, but I figured filling it out with part 2 would be...better.

Better than goddamned Whedon-League, anyway.

-Justice League Dark (2017)

-Justice League Dark: 

Apokolips War (2020)

Original reviews here and here.

Said it before; these are where the Snyder-verse was going, but without the Snyder baggage.

And they've got Matt Ryan as Constantine, so there's meta-continuity with the Crisis-es.

And "Apokolips War" specifically replaced Sandman.

Watchmen (2019)

Original review.

Yeah, the show is the "woke social justice" answer to Alan Moore cynicism fest.

I found it appropriate.

Then, I re-binged all the stuff to make sure it was really good, and I wasn't delusional.

It was good.

I mean, the Crisis stuff was CW TV, so it was cheesey, but I'll take cheesey and clumsily well-intended over evil.

And, Gaiman would snootily sneer at it, so fuck him.

The animated movies have cussing and gore, so they're trying to be DC Heavy Metal.

I think these are more morally nutritious than Heavy Metal.

I'd let a kid see these before Heavy Metal.

Watchmen was the best of the batch. 

Easily. The more dystopian the real world gets, the more I dig it.

Its sneaking up on possibly being my favorite thing out of DC.

Next step, getting rid of the actual books.

And the show DVD.

I'd like to get some money out of it, and put it towards getting everything by Shirley Jackson.

Stay tuned.