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A review by bearded_ginger
Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection by Geoff Johns
2.0
I loved where this started, but it felt like it started to betray its own premise and the original by the ending.
At its core - Watchmen was a story about deconstructing superheroes, their place in society, and the pedestals and anxieties we place on them. Doomsday Clock starts exploring that through a contemporary lens, but in the end becomes a DC canonical exploration of the franchise's own righteousness.
The DC meeting the Watchmen universe had a lot of potentials to capture the Zeitgeist yet again, but in the end, felt short-changed by its own contradictions. Not a bad read for fans of the original, but not mandatory reading like Watchmen is.
Also, the show serves as a more satisfying and tonally appropriate sequel.
At its core - Watchmen was a story about deconstructing superheroes, their place in society, and the pedestals and anxieties we place on them. Doomsday Clock starts exploring that through a contemporary lens, but in the end becomes a DC canonical exploration of the franchise's own righteousness.
The DC meeting the Watchmen universe had a lot of potentials to capture the Zeitgeist yet again, but in the end, felt short-changed by its own contradictions. Not a bad read for fans of the original, but not mandatory reading like Watchmen is.
Also, the show serves as a more satisfying and tonally appropriate sequel.