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New variant for Rorschach #1
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cyberghostfaceBrian Bolland is doing a variant for the upcoming Rorschach series and as you might guess it's a combination of two of Moore's most iconic works.
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Tom King Rorschach miniseries on the way
Jul. 15th, 2020 12:23 pmcyberghostface
It’s been 35 years since Ozymandias was exposed for dropping a giant telepathic squid on New York City, killing thousands and ending the public’s trust in heroes once and for all. The Minutemen are gone; only their memory lives on. Especially the infamy of Rorschach, who has become a cultural icon since Dr. Manhattan turned him to dust.
Rorschach may have spoken truth, but he wasn't a hero...
So what does it mean when Rorschach reappears as part of a pair of assassins trying to kill the first candidate to oppose President Robert Redford in decades? Follow one determined detective as he walks backward in time, uncovering the identities and motives of the would-be killers, taking him deep into a dark conspiracy of alien invasions, disgraced do-gooders, mystical visions, and yes, comic books.
More info here.
There's only so much that can be said about DC's milking of Alan Moore at this point. That being said it is interesting to see DC capitalizing on the popularity of Rorschach while trying to present him as an alt-right symbol like Pepe elsewhere. Bit of a "have your cake and eat it too" thing I suppose. ("You should feel guilty for liking him but we want you to buy his merchandise!")
Before Watchmen: Nite-Owl #1
Jul. 20th, 2015 06:06 aminformationgeek
"Leaving aside the fact that the Watchmen characters were variations on pre-existing characters created for the Charleton Comics universe, it should be pointed out that Alan has spent most of the last decade writing very good stories about characters created by other writers, including Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Dorothy (from Wizard of Oz), Wendy (from Peter Pan), as well as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Jeyll and Hyde, and Professor Moriarty (used in the successful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). I think one loses a little of the moral high ground to say, “I can write characters created by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Frank Baum, but it’s wrong for anyone else to write my characters." - J. Michael Straczynski (I do question the "very good" stories part when it comes some Moore's later works)
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Andy Kubert
Inker: Joe Kubert
Colorist: Brad Anderson
8 out of 25 pages
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