Before Watchmen - Ozymandias #6 !!!

Before Watchmen – Ozymandias #6 was simply a retelling of the movie and portions from the original Watchmen comic book.  I was rather disappointed as after the last issue this could have been much more and better.  This was the last chance to do something good with the Watchmen universe and instead just did a basic retread.

Dr. Manhattan #4 - Before Watchmen

Before Watchmen – Dr. Manhattan #4 was much much better than I feared the comic would turn out.  The last two issues were boring naval gazing crap.  This issue resolved the crappy story line and moved into through and past the original Watchmen comic and movie.  The cover art of this issue is completely unrelated to the story within the comic which was kind of annoying.  My one big complaint about Dr. Manhattan comic was it was the one with the most old school hero potential and it was wasted.  Dr. Manhattan was the one true not insane hero of the Watchmen universe and all he did was manipulate the universe to give up his free will and impose his will upon the universe to reach an ending he did not like or want.  He could change the world with a though to prevent the end of the world due to Nuclear War if it came to that end.  But instead he imposed order so that the story went only one way.  Ugh so annoying.

Ozymandias - Before Watchmen!

Ozymandias #5 Before Watchmen – this issue was good.  It was more of what I was expecting from Before Watchmen series than we actually were given.  It was the backstory of the watchmen and how that folded into what became the movie.  Not the egotistical ramblings of writers trying to do better than the original Watchmen while not being allowed to actually write anything new.  While I am surprised that Adrian Veidt required so much time to figure out his plan to save humanity.  He goes on and on about how smart he is yet he needed a Sci-Fi TV show to show him the way.  Now we just have to see if this book follows the true comic or the movie version of events.  So far the other comics have hinted more toward the movie.