Beyond fictional geography, what separates Britain from the rest of DCU?
One of the things I love about the DCU is how locations have characters of their own. It’s clearly something that’s being stressed right now, above and beyond the usual Metropolis/Gotham dichotomy, considering The Flash and Green Arrow. So considering Grant’s pushing for the extraordinary in every previous Knight and Squire appearance, I decided that they wouldn’t live in a down to Earth, realistic Britain like I’d tried for in “Captain Britain,” but instead in an Avengers-style, archetypal – some would say stereotypical – Britain filled with wonderful, over the top, whimsical stuff, and that the stories would be told in the same way. Dick Van Dyke would feel right at home here. But we’re also showing modern British diversity. It’s all the merry England stuff with multi-ethnic participants, so that feels a bit different and new. Basically, if you took a scheduled flight from Gotham airport to Heathrow, somewhere halfway across the Atlantic you’d stop being penciled in a gritty, gothic
