2022-06-07 8:05:04 ¶ ●

I was just about ready to dismiss “Meenah on Mars” - and the incidental appearance of the new supreme court justice Guy Fieri, who would go on to become the Condesce’s High Chaplain of Interstellar War, further implying that Meenah’s business in our universe extends beyond just the Earth - as just an aborted plot thread, or something intended for Hiveswap (it’d fit perfectly with the conspiratorial tone of the connections between Earth and Alternia, though it doesn’t appear in the Skaianet Systems outline)… but the fact that it’s only a few hundred pages after the Dr Manhattan stuff that we get a good look at Alternia’s pink moon and see that it’s literally just pink Mars keeps nagging at me!

is The Joke behind Meenah storming off to the moon in a huff that she’s “pulling a Dr Manhattan”? or are we even supposed to believe that, in imitating the modus operandi of her mentor Doc Scratch, the Condesce literally took a moon from her home universe with her, and that our Mars is a relocated Alternian pink moon? Mars being artistically rendered as pink in Watchmen, and all…