I've actually heard that before, and while it sounds strange to me, I think I can understand that. It doesn't help that sometimes the actual artists don't know how to pace a story, and that can fuck up even us experienced geeks.
There's a connection, but not to J'onn. The WATCHMEN characters are analogues of the Charlton Comics characters, a superhero publisher that went defunct, the rights of whom were bought by DC. Alan Moore originally wanted to use the Charlton characters, but DC forbade it, which in the end is for the best. I love the Charlton characters, and they'd never have been able to be used again. Rorschach is the Question (Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko's awesome Ayn Rand-ian vigilante), Nite Owl is the Blue Beetle, and Osterman is based upon Captain Atom:
You saw and liked NEW FRONTIER? Cool! The book's very worth reading, especially as one of the main criticisms of the film is that it reads like a Cliff's Notes version of the story. While I dearly wish it had an extra hour and a bigger animation budget, I definitely dug the NF movie.
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There's a connection, but not to J'onn. The WATCHMEN characters are analogues of the Charlton Comics characters, a superhero publisher that went defunct, the rights of whom were bought by DC. Alan Moore originally wanted to use the Charlton characters, but DC forbade it, which in the end is for the best. I love the Charlton characters, and they'd never have been able to be used again. Rorschach is the Question (Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko's awesome Ayn Rand-ian vigilante), Nite Owl is the Blue Beetle, and Osterman is based upon Captain Atom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Atom
You saw and liked NEW FRONTIER? Cool! The book's very worth reading, especially as one of the main criticisms of the film is that it reads like a Cliff's Notes version of the story. While I dearly wish it had an extra hour and a bigger animation budget, I definitely dug the NF movie.