Yeah, I guess you have a point there. It's a unique world all by itself. The only thing that's common to DC are the characters hehe. Once again, nice idea.
As for the copyright issues, yeah, it could work out but I just don't want to take the risk. Actually, if you wanna know, the reason the Watch section is currently down is a bit due to copyright issues. :/ More information here:
Good luck with college btw! Which designing tools and/or programming languages are you using/learning?