"You never struck me as an idealist, Eddie."

To see who utters that line, read the book or follow the link to Poplitiko.com.

Who Watches Before the Watchmen?

I checked a preview:



Reminds me of Attack of the Clones. When young Obi Wan says "Anakin you'll be the death of me."

Kinda eye rolling. The preview gets a little more interesting though.

I saw the online preview with President Kennedy -- who suffered crippling back problems and barely could move some days -- tackling superhero Eddie Blake in a game of football.

So.

Yeah,

He was probably busy standing in for Clark Kent to help his buddy Superman.

Wow, that exchange has so much resonance once you've read Watchmen.

Having read the issue, that analogy fails because...



Yeah, that's right. It took them three whole issues into this cash grab to specifically ignore if not out right retcon a clear allusion in the original work.

My only concern with this project is whether it would be any good. Not "as good as WATCHMEN" but just entertaining comics. They're one out of three on that score so far and the two misses are massive whiffs.

Mike

Mike, in your opinion which one was entertaining and which two were whiffs?

Well, they've all been fairly well-crafted, so that's not what I mean.

But NITE OWL #1 cost me 4 bucks for nothing but introductory vignettes when the only reason I, or most anyone else, is buying the book is because we already know who these characters are.

COMEDIAN #1 is written like they forgot the reference made to the Kennedy assasination in WATCHMEN. The character of Eddie Blake is also incredibly passive for most of the book, in both word and deed, and the stuff with the Kennedys at the beginning was just bizarre.

SILK SPECTRE #1, on the other hand, was about a young girl trying to cope with the demanding and weird life her mother is pusing her into and I loved the manga-type touches of the art that reflected the extremes of teenage emotion. The arc of the first issue even neatly coincided with the zeitgeist of the era, as Laurie takes off on her own just as the country is shaking off so many of its old traditions and standards. This could have been the first issue of an Elseworlds limited series about the Golden Age Black Canary and her Silver Age daughter and I'd be just as interested in getting the 2nd issue.

Mike

It would have worked better if it was FDR instead of JFK. Did comics *ever* draw FDR in a wheelchair?