Rorschach #1

[superboyprime]

"I really didn't want to do a Watchmen cover song, because to me, what Watchmen is about is, it broke down so many storytelling walls by telling a story in a different way, right? This is the kind of story you've never seen before. So if you just tell a story in the same way Watchmen did, you're kind of, you're throwing away the one thing it did, which is creativity. If you just repeat what it did, then you're actually not repeating what it did. It's like a contradiction.

"You know me, I fucking love a nine-panel grid, but I was like, 'alright, we're not doing nine-panel grids. We're not doing the quote at the beginning.' We're not — the thing about reading Alan Moore, the transitions are all built on puns. Someone looks at his watch, and then the next thing is a clock. Someone says I'm hungry and the next thing is someone eating. If you read Alan Moore's book on writing, he even makes fun of himself for doing that -- he's like, I don't want to ever do this again. So we throw out all that stuff. Even the back matter. We're not going to do any of this stuff."

- Tom King

Comments

[tcampbell1000]

Having grimly accepted the inevitability of more Watchmen spinoffs from now until Nite Owl Jr. joins Young Justice, I gotta say this is intriguing, especially its nostalgia for a kind of politics that until fairly recently seemed so entrenched as to be axiomatic, just the way the game was played.

The genuine mystery sure raises my eyebrows a lot more than (cough) simply resurrecting a long-dead character with no really satisfying explanation (COughMEDIANcough). And I agree heartily with King's quote. Ewing has brought the pun-transitions back in some recent work and they can be fun, but doing a style parody of early Moore is no new achievement by now.

[shakalooloo]

Wow, that quote sounds like King was snidely looking over his shoulder at Geoff Johns while he outlined this pitch to an editor.

[mazway_75]

Noted by others but I give credit for this whole thing played like some '90s noir bit then the last line revealing it's modern-day so intrigued.