No matter how welcome and anticipated they are, endings are bittersweet.  Here we have the final issue of Doomsday Clock, which is a journey we've been going on for over two years now.  Through its ups and downs, there has never been a point where I didn't at least enjoy writing about this book.  It's…

Right from the beginning, Doomsday Clock has been endlessly fascinating.  Even if a particular issue is rather slow, there's still so much going on that I'm constantly fascinated by this book.  I've said it before, but I love reviewing Doomsday Clock because it's about something.  There are so many layers to the narrative that I…

With the previous issue of Doomsday Clock, I posited that Doctor Manhattan-- due to his emotional detachment-- may not be considered a human any longer, and lamented that Superman has been largely absent in a story where he is supposedly the hero. Issue ten is a direct response to those theses, and in most ways…

Can Doctor Manhattan truly be considered a man any longer?  It's not a question that Doomsday Clock proposes, at least not directly, but in preparing for this review I began running over how I was going to describe him.  "A man," I kept wanting to say, because it's an accurate descriptor.  After all, before the…

Superman can move mountains, stop an oncoming train, and restart a dying star.  He can keep up with the Flash in a race around the world, and routinely matches wits with Lex Luthor. As exciting as it is to see Superman perform these astounding feats, as exhilarating as it can be watching him go toe-to-toe…

We all have blind spots.  Either willfully or inadvertently, there are things that we tend to turn away from, or things to which we don't pay any mind. The characters in Doomsday Clock are not immune to this, for they have blind spots too. Rorschach was unaware that his parents didn't die in each others'…

Her name is Erika. She is the daughter of an immigrant. Her father is a puppet-maker. He is her whole world, and he is taken from her. She knows pain. She knows loss. She is full of rage. She is Marionette. At the halfway point of the series, Doomsday Clock has delivered its most emotional…

I suppose we can't have it both ways with this series.  Last issue, I felt like the narrative came to a relative dead stop, as the story flashed backward to give us an origin for the new Rorschach.  It wasn't entirely unwelcome, and taken in its own context it was a gripping read, but it…

Maybe this is on me, but I just was not engaged. It's strange to say that, because I've enjoyed reading Doomsday Clock so far.  More than that, I enjoy writing about it, because it feels like it's about something.  It's similar to why I love Mister Miracle: while that series is firmly, unashamedly rooted in…

A funny thing happened early on in this issue of Doomsday Clock: I started buying into it.  Now, this series has been pretty entertaining since day one, but I've still kept it at arms-length for a few reasons.  Watchmen is great and, while I don't hold it in quite as high a regard as most…

Midnight approaches.  The Doomsday Clock ticks on. What fate and doom will befall our heroes when the clock strikes twelve?  Can even a Superman prevail over the nigh-omnipotent power of a being like Doctor Manhattan? That, I suppose, is the question Doomsday Clock is set to answer.  Will the cynicism of a world like that…

It's one of comics' biggest mysteries, as well as one of the biggest "holy crap" moments to come along in years: the characters of Watchmen are coming to the DC Universe. Once viewed as a standalone work, and rightly so (barring Before Watchmen, which I've heard isn't as bad as you'd expect but on the…