The story in Ozymandias is incredibly weak. It's the backstory of Veidt expanded to feature length. Confirms Rohrschach's "possibly homosexual" comment and then three pages later contradicts it. Veidt's new lady-friend (they met at the Gunga Diner, of course) gets mixed up in drugs at Moloch's club and dies (only four pages later), Veidt becomes Ozymandias to get revenge.

Just to be clear: the richest man in the world EVENTUALLY kills Moloch twenty years later SUPPOSEDLY as part of a conspiracy to make the world a better place, but it was actually just revenge for drugging his girlfriend.



And Len Wein wonders why Moore wanted to leave this alone.

On the alt cover, we already knew Phil Jiminez was worthless.

Crap, you're just kidding I got excited there for a second. I guess I really wanted to believe it.

I may be giving Wein too much credit, but I suspect that Ozzy not killing Moloch will be part of him realizing the whole futility of the masked hero bit.

I'd put Ozzy #1 just behind Silk Spectre #1 for this project so far. Minutemen #2 was better because they finally got to the damn story but out of all the books, only Silk Spectre is trying to do something beyond either just an extended re-mix of scenes or references from the original or flatly contradicting details of the original.

Mike

Looking for the Phil Jimenez cover I came across Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt cover drawn by Jae Lee.

I thought the Jimenez cover was okay by the way, but I originally thought Dave Gibbons drew it. The 3rd cover variant cover is by Jim Lee I think, which I don't care for.

Interesting article about the sales of the original Watchmen series in its first release.

Thanks, Ted, that was interesting indeed!

Number twelve is solicited this month as the final issue.