![]() Even though Johns and other DC writers built it up through several other stories prior, like Superman Reborn or Batman/The Flash: The Button, Doomsday Clock still acts as its own narrative with only passing references to some of those stories, allowing it to succeed on its own merits. Thankfully for any new readers, you don’t need to know a whole lot of this information going into Doomsday Clock. Manhattan who was responsible for these erasures for unknown purposes after leaving his universe in the final pages of Watchmen. This was the way DC moved forward until their next reboot in 2016’s DC Rebirth, where Johns made the stunning revelation it was Watchmen‘s Dr. ![]() ![]() Much like Watchmen as well, Johns uses Doomsday Clock‘s story as a means to reflect on the turbulent years of our present, focusing on how cynicism has taken hold seemingly worldwide while still providing a healthy amount of escapism for comic readers with the character pairings throughout the story.ĭoomsday Clock spins out of DC’s line-wide reboot of The New 52 where the publisher pretty much reset the clock for every hero, erasing long-held relationships, such as Superman’s marriage to Lois Lane, sidekicks or legacy characters like Wally West’s Flash, and even the past heroes of the Golden Age of comics with the original Flash, Green Lantern and others from the Justice Society. It’s an engrossing story as deep as Watchmen as Johns looks at the differences between the heroes of DC and ‘heroes’ of Watchmen, reflecting on the inherent cynicism of Moore’s world against the never-ending hopefulness of the DC Universe, even if some DC stories, characters or reboots are more grim than others. Geoff Johns has written many great and beloved stories during his tenure at DC, most recently Batman: Three Jokers, but Doomsday Clock may be his magnum opus not just on the DC Universe, but the comics medium as a whole with his examination of the characters longevity and place in pop culture. HBO’s Watchmen delivered a miniseries that is a direct sequel to the graphic novel while DC’s Doomsday Clock is, like the original, a 12-issue limited series that is a semi-sequel as characters from Watchmen crossover into the DC Universe, setting a collision course between their universes most powerful beings: Dr. It is funny that within the last couple of years we’ve gotten not one but two sequels to the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen in two different forms of media and context. ![]() Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection… ![]()
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