SPOILERS: Rorschach's Resurrection Was Finally Explained In DOOMSDAY CLOCK #1 But Brings A New Mystery

SPOILERS: Rorschach's Resurrection Was Finally Explained In DOOMSDAY CLOCK #1 But Brings A New Mystery

Doomsday Clock #1 is now on sale and with that recently released preview of the issue getting everyone talking due to the inclusion of Rorschach, we finally have an answer in regards to how he returned.

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By JoshWilding - Nov 22, 2017 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics
At the end of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, Rorschach was literally blown to smithereens by Dr. Manhattan. All that was left of him was a bloody patch on the ground and the diary he had delivered to the press which revealed the truth about Ozymandias' plot. Well, in today's Doomsday Clock #1 we learn that Rorschach is back among the living but it's clear something isn't quite right.


This Rorschach may look and talk the same but he prefers pancakes to beans and while he's brutal with his methods, he's not quite as violent. He's also not massively confident and while Ozymandias is scared of him (yes, he's alive but is suffering from a brain tumour), he quickly points out that he's not Walter Kovacs. In fact, he proves it by removing his glove and revealing that he's African American!

This is clearly a game changer and it's hard to escape the feeling that whoever the new Rorschach is will be a big reveal and quite possibly a character we're familiar with (even if they're a doppelganger of someone from the DC Universe). We'll have to wait and see but it's clear that the original won't be resurrected and that's probably for the best. What do you think of this reveal? Sound off below!
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Starkwilldie
Starkwilldie - 11/22/2017, 8:14 AM
First?
I'd like to thank Josh for making many articles and giving me a chance to be first.
Appreciate the useless recognition and waste of a comment.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 11/22/2017, 8:19 AM
MaximusTheMad
MaximusTheMad - 11/22/2017, 8:21 AM
But.....


Can there be a Rorschach and a Question?
antman73
antman73 - 11/22/2017, 8:22 AM
I think the new Rorschach is his psychiatrist in jail (parhaps that's why he's in the jail too)in the original Watchmen.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 11/22/2017, 8:22 AM
He’s going to end up being John H. Irons (Steel) and they’re going to tech him out with new gadgets in his arsonel.
Kman
Kman - 11/22/2017, 8:25 AM
Ahhhh no! STOP! I'm going to pick up my copy soon.

Must.... not.... read
DoubleD
DoubleD - 11/22/2017, 8:30 AM
we need a Rorschach and Punish team up
AC1
AC1 - 11/22/2017, 8:41 AM
How long after Watchmen is this set? Any chance it's the kid from the newsstand in the original who was reading the Black Freighter comic?
antman73
antman73 - 11/22/2017, 8:45 AM
@AC1 - thouth too but he was blown up by the bomb/alien in NY in the original Watchman comic. But the time set up is important too.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 11/22/2017, 8:57 AM
@AC1 - 1992 or 1993
AC1
AC1 - 11/23/2017, 1:13 AM
@antman73 - oh yeah, completely forgot the giant squid blew up half of NY including the newsstand
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 11/22/2017, 8:58 AM
Read it this morning and it was awesome. I hope it's as good as Metal has been.
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 11/22/2017, 9:53 AM
@blackandyellow - read it this morning? don't you have a job lol
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 11/22/2017, 10:03 AM
@blitzburgh - I'm great at multitasking LOL.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/22/2017, 9:10 AM
Good twist, i knew Geoff would respect Walter's death.
People probably were waiting for a bombastic first numeber and... yeah this is not that type of comic, nothing wrong with that, Geoff does that all the times, but this time...
He's gonna go deep down the rabbit hole! :P

Lots of questions tho. Even when it comes to the Kents for example!
rabid
rabid - 11/22/2017, 9:35 AM
@Doomsday8888 - I presume that we saw an alternate universe Kent family? Or was that scene set in the 52 reality, where perhaps Manhattan is tweaking history?
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/22/2017, 10:14 AM
@rabid -
I think bit of both actually.
Mostly New 52, cause this pretty much happened in the Morrison run, but in that case, a lil imp from the 5th Dimension was the villain not Manhattan (not mxy either).
Now i dunno, after Superman Reborn history/continuity changes, so it could be anything.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/22/2017, 4:40 PM
@Doomsday8888 -

My money is on the new Rorschach being the African/American doctor that tried (and failed) to get a decent psychological evaluation out of him, back when he was incarcerated. I know he's supposed to be dead in Veidt's Squid-thingy invasion, but this univerese was also supposed to never interact with other Earths of DC so, you know...

Anything goes.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/22/2017, 5:02 PM
@OedipusGrex
Well that would certainly explain things, because the new Rorschach acts/speaks just like Walter, and that doctor DID some work on him, so...i mean, you gotta be close to Walter to know how the guys thinks and behaves, right?

Geoff has been pretty tight with the continuity though, not sure he would ignore that Squid part, but a retcon is plausible.
Actually, i always thought of him as the master of retcons, so... Maybe the doctor lost some weight! :P
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/22/2017, 5:12 PM
@Doomsday8888 -

Well, after adopting your former patient's vigilante persona as your own and being morally forced to bash some skulls in, you either lose weight due to this whole accidental workout, or due to vomiting after the first couple of kills.

In other news, I just saw Justice League again. The kindest insult I can give it (because I'm physically incapable of giving any kind of praise to this movie) is that no DCEU fan should have the right to even mention any more Marvel's (alleged and entirely fabricated) "villain problem".
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/22/2017, 5:29 PM
@OedipusGrex -
Especially after this year!
Ego, Vulture and Hela!
Marvel no longer has that problem, DC on the other hand...
Although in their defence i gotta say that this is pretty much what you can expect from Steppenwolf's character, even in the comics he's not that big of a deal, a D-list villain in terms of popularity so if they really had to waste a villain, at least it was Steppenwolf and not some Braniac or Darkseid! :P
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/22/2017, 5:38 PM
@Doomsday8888 -

I'm not familiar enough with the character, but was that really supposed to be Steppenwolf?

'Cause to me, it looked like some sort of alien Fu-Manchu, wearing Silver Samurai's armor, with the conquest motives of a discount Loki, and a Mother complex that rivals that of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7, rendered in CGI by a 2nd year pre-grad VFX student.

I mean, good God, was he attrocious in every conceivable way...!
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/22/2017, 6:13 PM
@OedipusGrex -
Ahaha well let's just say they took some liberties with him, the look is different, but not by much, at least they gave him some motif, cause in the comics...
You could easily replace him with, say, Kalibak (Darkseid's son) and it would not make much of a difference!
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/22/2017, 6:23 PM
@Doomsday8888 -

I mean, it's not that he was just beyond Malekith's level of forgettable. He was just bad, and not in the intended villainous kind of way. He looked like utter grey garbage, he sounded like a broken garbage disposal, he moved like playdoh that had been forgetten in the sun for a week, and every single one of his lines were laughably cheesy.

There was not even one- not a single one- redeeming quality about him.
AC1
AC1 - 11/23/2017, 1:22 AM
@OedipusGrex - I'm a DCEU fan. Marvel has a villain problem (sometimes). Steppenwolf was completely underwhelming and forgettable too. Both companies could do much better, but both also have examples of good villains too - Zod, Iron Monger, Loki, Red Skull, Zemo, Vulture, Head, etc.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/23/2017, 4:27 AM
@AC1 -

Are you a DCEU fan because you enjoy seeing your favourite heroes of DC on the big screen, or because you genuinely believe that their films are just as good as (if not better than) those of the MCU?

'Cause I might be able to understand the loyalty and hope of someone who agrees with the former, but I have zero respect for anyone delusional enough to agree with the latter.
AC1
AC1 - 11/23/2017, 1:31 PM
@OedipusGrex - bit of both I guess. My opinions on DCEU films are mixed. I personally loved MoS, BvS and WW, hated SS and thought JL was OK but underwhelming and messy.

My opinions on MCU films are similar, obviously I won't break down my feelings on all of them but loved films like Winter Soldier, Ragnarok and Homecoming, thought some like IM2 and Thor 2 were kinda shit, and thought some like Avengers were a bit overrated.

I understand that both DCEU and MCU films have flaws. The MCU definitely hasn't put out any films that are worse than DC's worst, yet I've found that the DCEU films I've loved I've enjoyed more, and found more interesting, than any Marvel movie.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 11/23/2017, 1:49 PM
@AC1 -

Nope. Too neutral for me to buy it.
Battabing
Battabing - 11/22/2017, 9:11 AM
Probably gonna be the biggest story of 2018. DC's already announced a second printing.
aflynn
aflynn - 11/22/2017, 9:15 AM
Its Diggle
rabid
rabid - 11/22/2017, 9:31 AM
The Green Lantern Simon Baz isn't black, but he is dark skinned, and he's made it known that he loves pancakes.
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