Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach (Beyond Watchmen) [Kindle Edition] Author: Brian Azzarello | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CXY58LM | Format: PDF, EPUB
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You can download Download Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all-time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN! For over twenty years, the back stories of the now iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's landmark graphic novel have remained a mystery, until now. DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of WATCHMEN, with this second volume starring two of the most polarizing anti-heroes ever, COMEDIAN and RORSCHACH.
Eisner Award-winning writer and creator of 100 Bullets Brian Azzarello brings his gritty, nuanced storytelling to these two recognizable characters. In RORSCHACH, Azzarello again teams with superstar artist Lee Bermejo (JOKER, LUTHOR, BATMAN/DEATHBLOW) to illustrate how one of most dangerous vigilantes the comic world has ever seen became even darker. COMEDIAN, featuring art by J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS, Wanted), plants the famed war hero within the context of American history, as we find out how the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination revolve around him.
Collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN 1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH 1-4. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach
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- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (July 16, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CXY58LM
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Watchmen was the acclaimed work by Alan Moore and David Gibbons which re-set how many people view super hero comics. Along with The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, it put a very modern darker, cynical and often ironic shading to the nearly 90 year old genre.
If you haven't read Watchmen there is not much point in reading any of these prequels - the homages, references and foreshadowing will not make any sense. The ironic quotes and images which echo the original work won't have any resonance.
This installment looks at the two darker and grittier characters: The Comedian and Rorschach. Both operate largely to their own codes and if it stretches beyond what is commonly acceptable, well, that's just too bad. The Comedian however serves the official government and is granted great license so long as he delivers and doesn't go too far off the prescribed script and path. Rorschach is unrestrained except by his own black and white right versus wrong view of the world - a rigid and often limiting way of thinking. Brian Azarello plotted both parts - JG Jones illustrated the Comedian section and Lee Bermejo did the Rorshach part. Without spoiling the work, be warned the illustrations are bold and graphic but consistent with the brutal themes. What seems off is the way the Comedian is portrayed as becoming disillusioned by the JFK assassination and Vietnam. In Minuteman, it would seem his experience in World War II started him down that path long ago. It doesn't seem to ring true that he would be a cozy supporter of JFK and RFK. He'd laugh at them for being soft rich kids backed by their family money and connections. In the original work, there was intimation that he might have been in the region of the grassy knoll or book depository and this is contradicted here.
Be forewarned I am not a fanboy who hated the concept of "Before Watchmen". My mind set is even if its "Canon" and you don't like it...Don't count it... If you like these books then awesome if not then oh well, don't let that affect the Watchmen name with you. Im looking at the same people who say the prequels of Star Wars ruined the originals. If you don't like them don't blame them for anything other than the movies they are, and not the series they are in.
I actually did like the MinuteMen/Silk Spectre book due to alot of speculation on MANY things dating back to the original watchmen series (Hooded Justice's sexuality, his relationship to Captain Metropolis, where Eddie really fit in with the group, what went wrong, etc). I felt the book showed me a story of events that I was actually interested in learning about. It wasnt perfect but it was a good solid read. The same could not be said for this edition. Rorschach and Comedian are actually among my top 3 favorite watchmen characters (HJ as well) so I assumed this would be the best of the bunch. Eh I was wrong.
I expected so much more from a Comedian story, Maybe a origin on why he is the way he is, a crucial moment that changed his life, something that would make us see the heart we know this character has deep deep down. Instead we got an extended sequence of Eddie in the War. Eddie egging on Race Riots, Eddie behind the murder and slaughter or women and children, and without any spoilers, even the murder of a close old friend. I felt the story did not flow very well and didn't do anything to enhance the character in any way. The story struck me as a deleted chapter from Watchmen that was deleted for a reason.
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