Quote Originally Posted by BatmanJones View Post
If these characters were exceptionally well written, in a team book, wouldn't it essentially be Watchmen with different costumes? And wasn't that what Watchmen was? An exceptionally well written Charlton team in different costumes?
Not really. Watchamn may have used the Charlton heroes as templates, but it was really a study in super-heroes neurosis. Most characters had very little to do with the actual Charlton heroes. Rorschach was a psycopath, Nite-Owl a well of insecurities, the Comedian a sociopath, and so on... Captain Atom was a super-powered military man action hero, not the juiced up isolated from humanity god Dr. Manhattan was (IMHO, a one trick poney, that wouldn't work on an ongoing series,as the Nu52 Captain Atom seemes to have proven). Unlike Nightshade, Silk Spectre didn't have any powers and was basically eye-candy, , and there were no super-villains for them to fight, after all, it was supposed to be super-heroes in the "real world" (as pretty much everyone, I love Watchman, but the concept in itself is pretty dumb, and Moore's idea of what the real world and real people are like is downright sad).
Honestly, I think a US govenment funded and controled super-hero strike unit using the Charlton heroes could be great. Forget Watchman already, and give us great super-heroes in a super-hero world.

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