During Geoff Johns’ panel at New York Comic Con, he revealed that a major Watchmen character will be returning for Doomsday Clock, a 12-issue event comic that sees the Watchmen come to the DC Universe for the first time.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Doomsday Clock!
The returning character is masked vigilante Rorschach.
Rorschach died at the end of the original Watchmen story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons after he refused to keep Ozymandias’ plan a secret, provoking Doctor Manhattan to vaporize him. Doomsday Clock is a sequel to Watchmen, so his return obviously raises a lot of questions. Did Rorschach somehow survive? Was he resurrected? For a character who died such an iconic and meaningful death, is it even right to bring him back?
The big reveal came when Johns showed the first six pages to Doomsday Clock, which you can view by clicking through the slideshow gallery below.
Other interesting bits of information revealed include…
The story starts in 1992, seven years after the events of Watchmen. The narrator isn’t sure if it’s November 22nd or the 23rd, showing that he’s an unreliable narrator.
Rorschach says that god left but he needs to be brought back down, referring to how Doctor Manhattan left Earth at the end of Watchmen, and now he wants to bring him back. We of course know that Doctor Manhattan has been off meddling with the DC Universe, as implied in DC Universe: Rebirth #1 and follow-up stories like The Button and The Oz Effect.
It looks like Rorschach mailing his journal to a news organization before he died at the end of Watchmen had the desired effect, because “The Great Lie,” as a newspaper headline calls it, of Ozymandias’ master plan was revealed to the public. Rioters are shown breaking into Adrian Veidt's office building and the news says he’s a wanted man on the run for murdering 3 million people.
With Veidt's plan to unite the world against a falsified common enemy a failure, the world’s superpowers are threatening war. Playing into the idea of the Doomsday Clock ticking towards midnight, Russia has invaded Poland, North Korea has the capability to send missiles as far inland as Texas, and the American President has disappeared, last seen playing a game of golf. All public news stations have been shut down and taken over by the government.
A group of Russian soldiers break into Veidt's hidden base, Karnak, and we see a room with medical equipment. There’s an x-ray of someone with a brain tumor. Is Veidt sick?
The news says that nuclear war is imminent. Prison guards are abandoning their posts, and one is grabbed by a prisoner, who knocks him out and reaches for his keys, only for Rorschach to grab them first. The prisoner opts to stay in his cell.
Doomsday Clock #1 by Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson releases on November 22.
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