During his first public appearance following his latest box office hit, the filmmaker earned a standing ovation from the Hall H crowd while choking up as he talked about his love of the comic book medium.

The only thing that might be able to overtake that wave of emotions is, of course, speculating on what this movie is doing to set up what we know about DCU Chapter One: “Gods and Monsters.” Some fans think they’ve started to piece that together through that gorgeous mural in the Hall of Justice,