Before Watchmen - Comedian #6

Before Watchmen – Comedian #6 was probably the best story of the series.  Unfortunately all we got was a retelling of what we already knew about the Comedian and his backstory from reading the original Watchmen series.  We already knew he killed him and now we knew he cried about it.  It says volumes about this Before Watchmen series that a simple recap issue is the best of the set focusing on this character.

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.

Rorschach - Before Watchmen #4 !!!

Before Watchmen – Rorschach #4 was actually really good.  I do not know why there was such a downturn in quality before.  But this issue of Before Watchmen was good.  Rorschach was captured and his mask stolen, the bad guy takes the mask and goes out to kick ass (During the big blackout riots I assume).  Instead the bad guy gets his just reward falling to the mob on the street.  Rorschach escapes with the help of a hungry Tiger.  Then the flashback ends and we see “current” time with Rorschach taking revenge on a different bad guy whom had harmed Rorschach’s lady friend from the dinner.  This issue was good (I think I said that already but added for emphasis).

The Comedian! Before Watchmen

Comedian #5 or still Before Watchmen is another blah blah blah blah blah issue.  All the Comedian does is talk about how good he is how smart he is how American he is.  This is just repeating the same old same old.  We know the Comedian is insane and actually a bad guy.  That is why his redemption in the original Watchmen series is so important.  But with a full mini-series I’m disappointed (again) that so much time and energy is wasted on covering the same material issue after issue.

Before Watchmen

I have been reading the new “Before Watchmen” comics (all of them) I’m up to date on each series now.  I have to say the issues are rather uneven in quality; some of the books are excellent and other suck.  From reading about this maxi-series I understood that these books would be untold stories of the characters before the Watchmen comic.  But what we are getting is a rehash of the back stories told in the original Watchmen comic.  This points’ out the inherently impossible timeline of some of the characters whom would in some cases had been in the hero business since the 1930s while the main Watchmen story happened in the 1980s.  It makes the stories disjointed and uneven. Do not even get me started in the two pages per issue side story of the zombie pirate story I will not name.  In the original Watchmen comic the Pirate story fit into the main story in timing story and gave another angle at the morals of the main story.  The new story just sucks. 

I do want to say the Moloch series while seemingly slapped together to get more cash out of the series was good so far.  The issues written by JMS show a polish that the other comics are missing.

I am sometimes clever!

I was watching the extended DVD version of the Watchmen with friends last night. It was just as enjoyable a movie as when I saw it in the theaters. But the reason I am posting is I said something clever there at the end. At the part of the movie where it shows New York rebuilding after the disasters I say, "Doctor Manhattan returns the happy couple and in a Doc Brown voice says: 'you have to come with me to the future! everything is fine now but YOUR KIDS!!!'" My friends were amused and then the movie ended. My friends reaction must be related to being tired after watching the longer version of this movie.

I thought it was funny at the time.