Rorschach’s Journal,
“Final entry? Left Veidt’s office just before midnight….Veidt is faster than Dreiberg. Perhaps faster than me. Return from mission seems unlikely” –Rorschach
Watchmen has always been my favorite comic book and one of my favorite film adaptations regardless of what people say. For its time, the comic was pretty ahead of its self with its heavy political themes and symbolism about vigilantism and death.
Alan Moore struck me as a guy that you would really want to sit down and grab a beer with and just listen to what he has to say. It seems that his work speaks about how he feels about the world. The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen all seem to showcase his writing style of there being a bigger threat and the sacrifices one must do to stop evil or to go against the system.
Not only is Watchmen written brilliant but you can also tell that the artist poured their heart out. If you look at every panel, you might see some symbolism in there and even small clues. Usually the comic Tales of the Black Freighter can be seen laying on the ground. Speaking of the non-linear comic, I thought it was a brilliant way to interconnect it with the Watchmen story. Another symbolic gesture created by Alan.
As professor Hatfield pointed out before, we get to see how the world gets influenced by the arrival of Dr. Manhattan. The technology that people have to invent in order to keep up and the technology Dr. Manhattan invents in order to help the world. Alan Moore did a great job including this issue because I feel that not many comic, if any, do this in their universe. You would think the world’s government would make satellites to find Superman or Batman or the Hulk. You would think bank’s would be reconstructed from having Mutants rob it. It’s always a question I’d have but I’ve never seen it. Not until Watchmen. The way people were getting scared that the world was developing faster than expected. I feel that Moore was telling his audience to slow down before we doom ourselves.
My main focus would have to be on Veidt’s plan to save the world. I watched the movie before I read this comic so I knew what was going to happen at the end and who the bad guy was. But what really surprised me was Alan Moore’s mentality on how to save the world. In a time when Communism was around and the threat of nuclear war was real, Moore came up with a decent solid plan to save the world. In a way, at least what I got out of it he was telling the world that none of our wars matter if we are visited by another alien race. It would change everything entirely. Sometimes I wish aliens would come to Earth so that everyone could come together as one.
“Final entry? Left Veidt’s office just before midnight….Veidt is faster than Dreiberg. Perhaps faster than me. Return from mission seems unlikely” –Rorschach
Watchmen has always been my favorite comic book and one of my favorite film adaptations regardless of what people say. For its time, the comic was pretty ahead of its self with its heavy political themes and symbolism about vigilantism and death.
Alan Moore struck me as a guy that you would really want to sit down and grab a beer with and just listen to what he has to say. It seems that his work speaks about how he feels about the world. The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen all seem to showcase his writing style of there being a bigger threat and the sacrifices one must do to stop evil or to go against the system.
Not only is Watchmen written brilliant but you can also tell that the artist poured their heart out. If you look at every panel, you might see some symbolism in there and even small clues. Usually the comic Tales of the Black Freighter can be seen laying on the ground. Speaking of the non-linear comic, I thought it was a brilliant way to interconnect it with the Watchmen story. Another symbolic gesture created by Alan.
As professor Hatfield pointed out before, we get to see how the world gets influenced by the arrival of Dr. Manhattan. The technology that people have to invent in order to keep up and the technology Dr. Manhattan invents in order to help the world. Alan Moore did a great job including this issue because I feel that not many comic, if any, do this in their universe. You would think the world’s government would make satellites to find Superman or Batman or the Hulk. You would think bank’s would be reconstructed from having Mutants rob it. It’s always a question I’d have but I’ve never seen it. Not until Watchmen. The way people were getting scared that the world was developing faster than expected. I feel that Moore was telling his audience to slow down before we doom ourselves.
My main focus would have to be on Veidt’s plan to save the world. I watched the movie before I read this comic so I knew what was going to happen at the end and who the bad guy was. But what really surprised me was Alan Moore’s mentality on how to save the world. In a time when Communism was around and the threat of nuclear war was real, Moore came up with a decent solid plan to save the world. In a way, at least what I got out of it he was telling the world that none of our wars matter if we are visited by another alien race. It would change everything entirely. Sometimes I wish aliens would come to Earth so that everyone could come together as one.