Doomsday Clock #8

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Comments

[matrix_dragon]

"Surely my latest attempt to bring about world peace by using a godlike being as a nuclear weapon won't go wrong... Right?"

[icon_uk]

The beta testing went fine after all.

[deh_tommy]

Exactly: that can be passed off as a beta, but if he gets this right this time then that's worth all the awfulness he goes through. That's the classic manipulator/schemer's downfall, like with Henry Gyrich, or Maria Hill, or Francis Urquhart, or Mara Sov, etc.

[starwolf_oakley]

This is an odd mix of "I'm sure I'll get it right this time" and "Fools! I'll show them all!"

[mazway_75]

As much as I hate to admit it, I can totally see Veidt thinking that he can get it right the second time and rewriting the first as an "early draft."

[tripodeca113]

"No. Don't do It. The People!"

[freezer]

[beyondthefringe]

Poor Firestorm.
He never gets the respect he deserves.

[icon_uk]

I still think the New52 had one of it's better ideas (via Gail Simone) with the Firestorm Protocols being an international treaty with each acknowledged nuclear power (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the USA) having a nuclear powered representative (and some other states, like India and Israel, having sort of unacknowledged bootlegs)

[gnarll]

I guess I got to give them that: Firestorm would not get good press.

He is a walking nuclear weapon who talks to himself, sometimes loudly and angrily. Thats got to make people leery.

[beeyo]

As wonky as this series has been, this issue was alright. Mainly because it's mostly Superman being Superman.

[powerpb13]

Wait, is this Firestorm actually Dr. Manhattan?

[shakalooloo]

"How do you stop an exploding man?"

[zylly]

This actually... wasn’t that bad?

Other than the fact that the DCU citizens are supposed to be too smart for this sort of thing. (Anybody remember “aliens, go home!” when the Dominator alliance demanded Earth turn over its metas?).

And man, when you can’t see the Floating Head of Professor Stein, Ronnie really comes off as unhinged.

[jetblack927]

I can hear Will Smith at the end of I am Legend with Firestorm, here.