“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”
Hot on the heels of HBO's awesome 'Watchmen" limited series (although I'm still holding out hope for a second season), DC announced today that arguably the most controversial character in the franchise, the masked vigilante Rorschach, is getting his own spin-off comic mini-series. The series, titled "Rorschach", is set to run twelve issues and launch later this year, will be written by Tom King with art by Jorge Fornés.
Memorably played by Jackie Earle Haley in Zack Snyder's underrated big-screen adaptation, the twelve-issue series, which I should mention does not come from original creators Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, is – according to THR– "set 35 years after the conclusion of the universally acclaimed Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons Watchmen series, Rorschachfollows an investigation into an assassination attempt against the first candidate to stand against President Robert Redford in decades — one of whom was dressed as Rorschach, despite his having died in 1985 at the end of the original series."
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, I think to bring back dead characters, if indeed that's what they're doing, is an iffy proposition for something as singular as "Watchmen". On the other hand, the HBO series proved that the franchise still had a lot of life left in it, even without Moore & Gibbons. So I guess we'll just see!
The comment section exists to allow readers to discuss the article constructively and respectfully, focused on the topic at hand.
What’s Not Allowed