Dark Knight/Watchmen Crossover Art Hilariously Misled Fans For Years
For years, a piece of art has been circulating on the internet that shows the The Dark Knight Returns' Batman in a confrontation with Rorschach from Watchmen. While fans may look at the work as a prescient glimpse in the years before the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' epic was integrated into the DC Universe, the truth is anything but.
It was years before Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s sequel series, Doomsday Clock, brought Watchmen into the DCU proper. However, an image made its way through forums and social media posts years before the crossover was even conceived. The image depicting the older, gruffer Bruce Wayne from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns backhanding Rorschach was long assumed to be early concept art for the miniseries Countdown: Arena. As it turns out, someone familiar with the artwork stepped in to set the record straight quite some time ago.
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In an archived post on Comic Book Resources, former Wizard magazine employee Sean T. Collins penned a response to a report that DC was planning to launch a new line of comics in the wake of the Watchmen movie's release. Collins was specifically responding to a line that claimed that the image, which originally appeared in Wizard, indicated that Watchmen characters were meant to feature in the Countdown: Arena miniseries. Collins clarified that the piece by artist Art Adams was meant to merely speculate on an event Wizard saw “internally as a glorified “Last Man Standing.”” Collins confirmed that other similar pieces were done “without the approval or coordination of the companies involved,” declaring the image “simply Wizard’s pie-in-the-sky vision” of what the comic could be.
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