HeroPress: Top Of The Pile: Doomsday Clock #1

HeroPress A daily slice of super-powered geek life with a heavy emphasis on comics, old school tabletop games, general pulpy science-fiction, giant monsters, zombies etc

Top Of The Pile: Doomsday Clock #1 Nov 23rd 2017, 21:00, by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Knight) Doomsday Clock, DC Comics' eagerly-anticipated - in some quarters (such as here) - sequel to Alan Moore's legendary Watchmen story, has arrived and, on the strength of this first issue, it doesn't disappoint. Delivered by the superstar team of writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank, Doomsday Clock (DC, geddit?) looks poised to cement Moore's seminal deconstruction of the superhero mythology firmly into the wider DC Universe (ultimately for better or worse). In the world of the Watchmen, it's 1992, seven years after Ozymandius's audacious stunt to bring about world-peace. Unfortunately, his machinations have been discovered - in no small part due to the revelations in Rorschach's journal (as teased at the end of Watchmen). And now the world is in an even worse position, with the spectre of apocalyptic war looming as the Russians annex Poland, the European Union collapses, and America dissolves into anarchy. But one man has a plan to solve all these problems. All he needs to do is find out where the omnipotent Dr Manhattan has gone. Doomsday Clock is a beautiful looking comic, featuring - of course -  newspaper clippings and other ephemera in the 'appendix' section of the issue, to help maintain the verisimilitude of the world Moore created and Johns is building on. Geoff Johns' writing draws you in to the story from the get-go, as you would have hoped, and the pacing of this first issue is methodical, stylistically aping the original series yet not simply, slavishly, ripping it off. The explanation for the return of Rorschach (not a spoiler, he featured in the promotional material) is so simple and obvious as to be genius. I'm pretty sure I chuckled when I realised what was going on, picturing a horde of angry fanboys waving their fists at the sky and shouting Geoff Johns' name akin to Captain Kirk's classic cry of 'Khaaaaannnn!' in Wrath Of Khan. How this all meshes with the main DCU, and what Superman's first ever nightmare means, are puzzles to be addressed in future issues. I'm definitely on board for the duration.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. By using Blogtrottr, you agree to our polices, terms and conditions. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions.