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?
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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?
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