Doomsday Clock sounds almost
exactly like what I want out of
Rebirth. My dream ending for it was this -- Superman-Prime (of
DC One Million and
All-Star Superman, an alien who loved humanity so much that he spent centuries rebuilding the heart of the sun) and Dr. Manhattan (a human who lost his humanity and essentially became an alien) sit and talk for about four issues. In my dream it was Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely working on this -- a golden Superman appears, says, "Jon, we need to talk," and there it goes, a trippy, metaphysical journey through the meaning of life itself.
That's almost certainly
not what Johns and Frank will do, and that's fine. Superman and Dr. Manhattan really are the natural pairing because they're complete contrasts -- one, the alien who became human and embodies the best in us; the other, the human who became alien and rejected everything about us.
I'm sure Alan Moore is screaming in Northampton. He criticized Johns years ago for ripping him off in
Green Lantern (by introducing the various rainbow corps), and now Johns is directly addressing
Watchmen. "Have your own ideas and stop using mine," is probably the thought going through Moore's head.
