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And this is why Azz will never be Alan Moore, no matter what you think of their respective talents. Moore mashed up Bickle's monologue from the beginning of Taxi Driver with one of Son of Sam's rants to make the opening monologue (Rorschach's first journal entry) on the first page of Watchmen, with its own unique and crazy rhythm, IMNSHO one of the best uses of the narrative caption in the history of comics. It's a way of evoking the zeitgeist of the urban paranoia and rage that produced someone like Bernhard Goetz.

Azz has to have Rorschach actually meet Bickle, though, for what reason, exactly? It's like that issue of The Question that Dennis O'Neil wrote in which Vic read Watchmen to make the point that his version of the character wasn't Rorschachy at all, only there seems to be less point in this. Is Rorschach going to meet Charles Bronson's character from Death Wish? How about Dirty Harry? Sheesh. I'd place bets on his finding and killing Son of Sam, but that means I'd have to read the fucking thing to find out.