Doomsday Clock: Full Story | Comics Explained

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nuclear war was going to engulf everything it was like if the cold war between the United States and Russia never ended and so because of that with the original Watchmen taking place in 1985 the idea of Ozymandias was if people cannot unite on their own then what they need is they need a common enemy a common goal they need a singular banner to unite under and so creating this this massive catastrophe in the city of New York this massive event that cost somewhere near the the lives of three million people ultimately United society in a way that people never really thought before and so what we find out in this story is that where the end of the watchmen saw this unification of humanities a sort of you know 1:1 pact one world kind of thing ultimately by 1992 where this story kicks off it had all gone to pot and the reason for that was because in the original watchmen comic horshack was basically going through and he was notating everything that had happened that was the basis of war shacks journal it was documenting this whole event that was unfolding so by the time the story came to an end and you found out that Adrian Veidt this guy who was formerly a superhero who had turned you know philanthropist and businessman where he was the one that was originally behind it all this was basically documented at were shacks journal so at the end of the story when were shacks Journal was sent to the press and the press began running this article of the fact that it was all just a giant ruse that it was what people now refer to as the great lie the society felt deeper into chaos than it was before because now they felt like they'd been tricked and they felt like three million people had been sacrificed as opposed to you know people finding a hope on their own now this is cool geoff johns is not really a writer to focus on like the dark side of humanity but the cool thing about this is that it almost seems to hit it home as the nature of people to take kind of a cynical approach here and I'm not really cynical by nature but the humanity was at a fork in the road they were giving us information that said hey look it was basically a ruse it was this guy Adrian Veidt the world's smartest man who had engineered the deaths of three million people to unite all of you under a single banner because you were acting like children and you couldn't do it on your own and when humanity was given the choice of will do we continue this trend and do we say yeah I mean maybe he was right maybe we did need a singular cause and those three million people's sacrifice can be honored by creating a better world or we can just descend back in the chaos again and just totally ruin any sacrifice they made humanity chose to descend back into chaos again and so it's very much a kind of Grant Morrison esque Alan Moore method of storytelling where it's like where they they take these kind of concepts and they basically said all the worst things that happen in the world happen because of people because people do them maybe a lot easier if we could point our finger at a super villain but to quote you know V for Vendetta if people are looking for the guilty party they need only look into a mirror and that's the whole point of this that's the whole basis behind this is to say humans are responsible for all the terrible things that happen and so one thing I want you guys to also notice too is that we're getting this sort of monologue this almost like a diary entry in terms of how all this is happening which is interesting because war Shack died at the end of the first Watchmen and so it's kind of cool because the question becomes well who is it that's narrating this who it is who is it this going through and making this whole discussion and talking about these things now the other half of this is that we end up finding out that after the events of you know really like this this revelation from Adrian Veidt so on and so forth that political parties in the United States began using it as a means to try to consolidate you know power under one another and that's kind of the cool thing because in a lot of ways this almost heaters on the basis behind the the TV show Jericho oh how many of the eyes ever saw Jericho but Jericho was a great show it was basically this show that took place from the perspective of the people who lived in a town called Yuriko and there's this nuclear explosion in Colorado Springs I think it was where NORAD is based but people were just kind of freaking out they were kind of panicking but what you end up finding out is that that was not the only nuclear detonation instead some crazy faction got a hold of nuclear weapons and detonated nuclear bombs in 26 major US cities basically bringing America to its knees and then after that you had the eastern United States which is what was left of the federal gun and then everything west of the Mississippi or the Rocky Mountains I came from Burt which was the Allied States of America so you effectively had the works being laid for a second Civil War within the United States and all that hindered on the last remaining nuclear bomb and it was just a great race to try to get it this is very much the same way people consolidating power is designed to illustrate absolute chaos and complete and total pandemonium not only that because of the fact that this is all predicated on the great lie it means not only is the United States descending into madness it's also other countries to all these different news agencies are reporting about how Russia is invading other territories expanding its empire different things like that and that's why it's kind of crazy because we don't know which of these is true and when I say which of these we'll find out here in a second but we into finding out from this whole you know a bit of a monologue is that the news network started publishing it the news networks started talking about it then the government started systematically shutting them down the government just has a sweeping amount of power more so than it had before the president's kind of out of the picture nobody really cares about what it is that he's doing they're trying to figure out what it is is going on but Adrian Veidt is the world's most wanted man the world's on the hunt for Adrian Veidt as the what we end up doing is we actually end up having a member of the press who's actually inciting rebellion among the people rise up against your government and they're immediately quashed there immediately silence and the whole idea is that in turn we basically get the national news network this giant propaganda piece and that shows you how far things have fallen in the span of seven years from the end of the first Watchmen story until this one starts humanity experienced this golden era of peace and then humanity brought this golden era of peace to an end and now we basically have this propaganda machine cranking out information Russia's invaded Poland we have to respond with nuclear weapons and so what we end up doing is that in the middle of all this panic in the middle of all this chaos they basically pick up in a prison where you know a guy's basically trying to orchestrate a prison break by attacking a guard and when he goes to knock this guy out we end up having somebody pick up the keys and this person is Rorschach what how did horshack live where were shot come from now here's the funny thing so we were at New York Comic Con and we got the ashcan for this whole thing and froze you guys you don't know the ashcans basically like hey here's just kind of a preview rough draft kind of a thing on what the story's going to be you know what the story's gonna look like and it was super cool because like myself in comic story were sitting in the panel with like Geoff Johns and maybe like five or six hundred other people and Geoff Johns is like hey so do you guys want to see like the preview for like for Tuesday o'clock and we're like yeah man like we really want to see that and so he so he starts running over like showing the previous everything and he got to this point dude the top plumb came off that place you guys should have seen it it was bananas people were freaking out over the fact that were Shaq came back we basically picked up with were Shaq as he makes his way through and this is very Rorschach asked in terms of how this thing unfolds he went to a diner you know on you know to get some breakfast and the woman that normally serves this pancake syrup you know her boyfriend took her you know out back and then she came back with bruises and a busted lip Rorschach found the guy stabbed a fork through his tongue broke his hands I mean it was it was amazing it was it's just it's awesome to see this this this cool monologue unfold but were shocked is basically talking about how the US gave Russia a four-hour ultimatum if Russia does not back off from invading Poland in four hours then the United States is going to use nuclear weapons now the whole idea grabbing that idea of like the national news network and the propaganda machine and rolling it over into what were Shack is basically telling us this is basically nonsense is this scenario where the United States government is feeding the American people false information under the auspices of creating a reason for why it is that they want to either attack Russia or disable Russia or something along those lines now the indication here is that with Adrian Veidt having this global sharing information for the most part that Russia knows all the strategic points of the United States and how to basically [ __ ] the u.s. using nuclear weapons and so the goal of the u.s. is to create a common threat to say see Russia's the bad guy stop protesting us we need to worry about Russia everybody focus on Russia and then launch nuclear weapons in Russia what we end up finding out is that where these nuclear weapons are being prepared to launch you know we're just they're just waiting on the three-and-a-half hour mark to hit we end up having Rorschach locate someone by the name of marionette now there is a reason for why these characters are here and we'll talk about that in a second but one thing I hope you also notice about how Rorschach talks is that it's very much in broken English when horshack spoke in the Watchmen comics for the most part it was kind of broken to a degree but it was still like traditional English you know regular English the way that we normally speak it does feed him to the idea that if this is Rorschach who's returned for the dead and things just quite right from him you know right with his character it was kind of cool in terms of how this unfolds but with regards to the character of marionette were shocked popping up basically says hey look I'm gonna hire you for a job and the payment for this job is a location of where your child is and this is cool because marionette freaks out it immediately tries to attack horshack now from there her her idea is well did we have to find my husband we have to find mine and this is cool because once they locate mine is in the middle of this massive Prison Break regards are being beaten up in different things like that and we end up finding out that mine was putting on somewhat of a show in the sense that we're a couple of prisoners consider him to be sort of nonsense the fact that he never talks you know when were shocked at marionette show up marionette makes the case well this is just part of my own show just wait and watch and Mon basically responds by just killing all these prisoners but the reason why I say these are characters but John's put in here intentionally was because during New York comic-con John's had basically said these are versions of Punch and Julie now punch and Julie are old Charlton comic characters and they made their appearance back in Captain Atom number 85 in 1967 now of course we talked about Charlton comics before one of a myriad of coming up with publishers really from like the 1940s going into the 1960s the problem was by the time the 1970s and 80s came around Charlton just wasn't able to stay afloat anymore and so DC had basically purchased up a lot of the characters that they had and then wrote those characters into DC itself which is where we got Blue Beetle different things like that but punch of Julie were basically just these nonsensical characters they were characters where they basically found some alien technology they ran a puppet show called Punch and Judy and the whole thing was that when they became criminals they started calling themselves Punch and Julie and that was really it most recently in DC rebirth they were part of I am vein where Batman broke into a Santa Prisca where he was forming a suicide squad of his own of sorts in order to invade Bane's prison that was really the basis behind that you know for the purpose of taking psycho-pirate bring you back to Gotham in order to cure Gotham girl again I have that in the Batman playlist you guys are welcome to check out that's the actual punch and Julie over there these characters mime and marionette are based on those characters grabbing a vehicle and taking off what they end up doing is of course were shocked he's making allusions to is to his partner you know now the indication here is because the direction they go in their partner is actually Night Out and that's cool here because they go to like you know the the howl ship and they're in the base of the old Nienow they have the nine that will suit everything there but what finding out is his partner is not neidell his partner is Ozymandias and i was just like what no way it's crazy because Ozymandias has been hiding underground this entire time he's been just underground and he basically grabbed were shocked but we also find out is this is not the Rorschach that we know it's not the were shocked that we're familiar with somebody took over his name somebody took the title of were shocked after the original Rorschach died who that person is we don't know but the cool thing about this is that Ozymandias really kind of hits on the mistake that he made what he says is I do not have the means to fix the world we don't even know if the world can be fixed but if the world can be fixed if it can be restored back to the place that is supposed to be there's only one person who can do it and that person is dr. Manhattan we have to find dr. Manhattan at this point we cut away from the whole Watchmen from from everything with the Watchmen and we pick up with Superman what this does is it seems to pick up with like a flashback or a dream of sorts and he's actually talking to Martha Kent talking to Jonathan Cain about a problem that he's going to that kind of a thing but notice the way this is done this is throwback to Superman's secret origin those guys don't know Geoff Johns wrote a few secret origins stories and for the most part secret origins are just a line of publications that DC has they're basically just more condensed down versions of the origins as they appear and they usually put like two or three and any one particular publication but the whole idea was that with Geoff Johns secret origin of Superman it was like a six or seven issues story but detailed this brand new origin for the character of Superman and that's what's been used really as part of DC rebirth in a lot of ways now Superman reborn changed a lot of that stuff but it also brought a lot of those things back to so it kind of rolled in this perfect origin for the new 52 flash classic Superman melded into a singular character but with regards to this version of Superman we're kind of left to assume that you know it's it's them the one that we see now in DC rebirth but it's not and we'll find out why here in a second but the cool thing is that he's basically reflecting on this whole they owe this dance you know this dance party of sorts that he's going to and the funny thing is that back in in his younger years Superman really kind of had the hots for Lana Lang she was the first person who learned that he had powers basically and she was the one that helped to train him to use his powers to figure out how he could fly to figure out how to control vision different things like that and so she was very much an intricate part of him becoming a superhero as much as John and Martha Kent were and teaching him his moral compass but it's kind of cool because back in these younger days where he had feelings for Lana in a lot of ways Pete Ross one of the other friends of Clark Kent had was the first one to ask out Longway the problem with this is that is John and Martha Kent are driving home they basically end up in a car wreck and that's where they die and Superman snaps out of it now the reason why I say this is not the Superman that we're familiar with is because Superman's parents as far as I'm aware never died in a car crash Jonathan and Martha Kent have died but like usually Jonathan died of a heart attack and Martha Kent wasn't long after that their passing has been done in different ways but it's still kind of a big moment because this seems to hit at the idea this is not the Superman we're familiar with this is a totally isolated Superman if the events of you know Doomsday Clock are taking place on a earth somewhere then that means it's got to be taking place on an earth in a different universe and it was taking place in a different universe and the washer rolled into the DC universe or DC Multiverse now then it stands to reason that universe may very well have his own version of Superman well the question has to be asked if that version of Earth has its own Superman where's he been all this time and that's a crazy thing is because again as far as I'm aware Superman's parents never died in a car crash now this may be a change and there may be some part of his origin that I'm missing over here and if there is I'm sure a lot of you guys will will correct me down in the comments but it's huge this is big because what this does is a deal it basically hints at this idea Superman has never had a nightmare before he's never experienced a bad dream in his life you know him having this nightmare means one of two things it means either it's organic or someone's messing with Superman but it's kind of crazy because the question becomes what happens next okay so we are picking up with Doomsday Clock part two and really in order to keep from like spoiling the events of the Watchmen because I know that while the story is like 50 years old or 40 years old or something crazy like that a lot of people never read it I mean they saw the movie but they never actually read the comic so in order to keep from spoiling the end of the comic we're not going to go too deep into what the aftermath of the comic is or at least what happens at the end of the comic what we will say is that with regards to where Doomsday Clock picked up it basically picked up with the end of the world the fact that everything had come crumbling down and so really this deals with like these these last vestiges these last moments but for reasons that were never really explained to us Ozymandias had gone as far as to basically recruit the characters of marionette and mime I remember marionette in my and were in a lot of ways the not really Joker characters the characters were kind of like comma just two jokers now in truth the way there's the way they're kind of being depicted here it's almost like they're more of a joker Harley Quinn relationship in the sense that I would say Joker would be more like a marionette and Harley Quinn might be more like mine but we didn't really know why awesome Andy has wanted in so much we don't know why he brought them in well what we end up doing is get this kind of tape of course Ozymandias basically gives them back the things they normally neither their outfits perfume for for marionette different things like that but we end up you know having this tape that's shown to Rorschach and what this tape reveals is that somewhere along the line over the course of the careers of marionette in Mon they had gone to rob a bank now of course this bank robbery really kind of played out the way we would expect it to you in the sense that things went nuts pretty fast but along the way they're basically greeted by the arrival of dr. Manhattan now the crazy thing about this is that dr. Manhattan would have just incinerated them in their entirety and that was the expectation you know from like a bank manager from the bank tellers the customers who were in there they expected dr. Manhattan to just obliterate marionette and mime in their entirety the problem is that Manhattan chose not to and the reason why was because he basically realized that marionette was pregnant now of course we talked about this in the first video in fact that's one of the biggest things is hit on in the first video is that marionette and mine had a child and they wanted to know where it was I mean there's a there's a point in the first story where she's like where's my baby yet so of course we know that you know they they have a child together but it is cool because one of the things it's really kind of focused on when it comes to Manhattan is this sort of lack of concern about humanity this lack of interest but one of the things that really kind of also focuses on in the original Watchmen is that if dr. Manhattan is being human he's really being human in name only in the sense that well this is what humans would do so that's what I will do I guess these little you know these little tidbits of humanity that are still somewhat part of his person and kind of leak out here and there so to speak but the funny thing about this is that Adrian Veidt didn't know that Ozymandias did not know that marionette was pregnant Ozymandias looks as that and says well Manhattan shows not to kill him because there's some kind of connection they share something along those lines it's desperation where Ozymandias is the smartest man in the world what he's doing it's grass spitting at straws the world is coming to an end and we have to find dr. Manhattan in order to save it he's the only one that can do it and I'll believe anything I need to believe in order to find him in times of desperation people will believe whatever they want to believe whatever will make them more comfortable even if that belief system defies all forms of logic if it defies all forms of evidence they will move those facts aside and they will replace those facts with their own opinions because it makes them feel better about the reality of the situation that's the nature of things now the other thing about this is that awesome Andy has also came to the realization the dr. Manhattan glowing blue is just a byproduct of electrons escaping his body but what it does is it leaves a trail and so the argument of Ozymandias is they can literally follow it like breadcrumbs and they can find out where it is that Manhattan went to because with all the man Diaz's explorations and his you know investigations he's found nothing to indicate that dr. Manhattan has moved to some other place in the universe in the mind of Ozymandias he's gone to a different universe presumably the main DC universe and so if the result is that as these bombs begin crashing down around everyone we ultimately end up having the Watchmen Ozymandias and war shack alongside mime and marionette basically teleport to the DC Universe and it's actually kind of cool because what it does from here is it picks up with Bruce Wayne now one thing I want you guys to remember is that Doomsday Clock is believed to basically take place after everything that's going on so far so Doomsday Clock takes place after all the current stories that are going on in DC rebirth right now after the events of dark nights metal all is really kind of like after all that stuff it takes place in the future how far out we don't know we don't know if like dark nights metal will end and then immediately jumps into Doomsday Clock or if there's a span of like a month or two and then Doomsday Clock starts we just know it takes place in the future and the reason why we know that is because for the most part the attitude of society has shifted where society you know previously embraced superheroes society has basically turned against superheroes they've turned against Batman they've turned against Superman we don't want you guys here now again we could really attribute this to the aftermath of Dark Knights metal for example Barbados leading all of his forces into the world you know when attacking all the superheroes all the citizens and metropolis being converted in the doomsday Gotham City has really kind of come crashing down during the Gotham resistance tie-in for Dark Knights metal all those things that are going on we can kind of presume that that's when that takes place but that's all we can do is make that presumption we don't know with an absolute certainty that that's the case the other half of this is that Bruce Wayne has basically had to undergo these sort of annual psychological tests more or less to satisfy the Board of Directors and the reason for this is because of the fact that the Board of Directors effectively believes that Bruce Wayne is not capable of leading his own company now the reason why this matters is because Lex Corp is currently in the process of trying to buy Wayne Enterprises meaning Lex Luthor would run everything Broin Enterprises is in charge of now the immediate concern of Lucius Fox as well as Bruce Wayne is if this happens then basically the Batman project will be exposed or it'll have to go underground but we won't have the resources we have now basically you'll lose all your financial backing all your gadgets all your little tricks all those things those will all go out of the way in truth it would actually see Batman just kind of return to his to his golden age form back in like the 1930s and 40s when everything was pretty simple and pretty basic I mean he still had things like the batwing stuff like that but what it basically means is that Batman would no longer be the sort of fighting force that he would be at the moment the bat family would presumably go away there so Gotham would just kind of be left to whatever criminals really just kind of take it over and run it in its entirety versus our only real concern here is what we just need to worry about Batman won't worry about that first we'll try to figure out a way to keep that to keep that solvent but as long as I pass these psychological tests it doesn't really matter picking back up with the Ozymandias Rorschach mom and marionette of course they crash land in Gotham City and it's cool because as they make their way into the city itself they travel to the public library they start to notice a lot of similarities as well as a lot of differences now remember from the world of the watchmen the way that story was written by Alan Moore it was designed in a lot of ways to be the real world The Watchmen was designed to be like what would it be like if heroes existed right now you wouldn't have Superman flying around you wouldn't have Green Lantern's you wouldn't have Wonder Woman or anything like that the most extreme thing you would have would be a guy like dr. Manhattan who gained his powers from an intrinsic field in terms of like superheroes per se you'd have things like the Minutemen some group that rose to prominence of 1939 you'd have people who would just be running around as vigilantes throwing on you know makeshift masks and different costumes and so on and just kind of using whatever training or whatever martial arts they've learned to try to keep the streets safe and so when your Ozymandias and you're looking around and you start doing research on the city of Gotham that you're in as well as the world that you're in suddenly you start learning about things like Superman you start learning about things like Wonder Woman you start learning about things like Green Lantern you also begin to notice these characters were fictional in your universe and that's what Ozymandias points out here in their world Superman is a fictitious character he's a comic-book superhero Wonder Woman is a comic book superhero Green Lantern is a comic book superhero they've gone from one universe where those characters were pretend to stepping into a universe where they're real it's very Grant Morrison in terms of how it's done and it's actually really really intriguing but doing some more research and doing some more poking around in the mind of Adrian Veidt they can't just go to any one where they can't just go to Wonder Woman or Superman or whoever what they need are the smartest people and that's for two different reasons the first is because those smartest people would be governed by logic and reason the second is because of the fact that those individuals will be able to help them with whatever resources they need you know using their intellect and so on and so forth to help them achieve the goal of tracking down and locating dr. Manhattan and so the idea is to split up Ozymandias himself we'll go after Lex Luthor and war Shaq will go after Batman so again it's cool because what this does is it kind of bounces back and forth between the two you basically end up having war Shaq who shows up at Wayne Manor manages to kind of break his way in and then as he's going through looking for clues and so on discovers the clock that leads down into the Batcave and Rorschach descends down into the Batcave and triggers a trap set by Bruce Wayne to alert anybody if anyone enters the cave from there it switches over to Ozymandias now this encounter between Ozymandias and lex luthor is amazing it is so cool and it's one of the most interesting things out there because remember with Lex Luthor he's very arrogant in terms of how he functions and who he is but remember assuming this follows the events of Dark Knight's medal and everything that goes on and assuming all things being equal Lex Luthor's not a bad guy here Lex Luthor is not a villain Lex Luthor is a guy who's still a hero but he's still Lex Luthor he still considers himself to be the smartest man in the world he's still very arrogant he's still full of hubris he still staunchly believes he's right in everything he does but notice this and this is kind of the cool thing the way that Geoff Johns writes Lex Luthor and the way that Lex Luthor interacts with Ozymandias you never know he was a good guy and the reason for that is because you're not supposed to know if Lex Luthor's written right in DC Comics you wouldn't know that he was a good guy until put on a Superman uniform and went to go save the day and that's why it works you know to kind of sidetrack for a second that's why you can shift back and forth with Lex Luthor you can have him be a villain when new 52 picks up you can have them become a good guy during the story of forever evil and then you can have them you know stay a good guy after forever evil and the personality remains intact the arrogance the hubris it all stays as a cohesive part of what makes him who he is because that's what people like that's what people like about Lex Luthor they like him being arrogant they like him being like yeah I'm the smartest man in the world like why wouldn't I be and it's really kind of funny because him in Ozymandias play off of each other awesome and this is an initial answer to the question from Lex Luthor you know with regards to who are you is I'm a smartest man on my world you're the smartest man on yours and Lex Luthor is like okay well then you're obviously a bonehead and it's hilarious because what is up happening is as amanda's explains everything that happens with regards to the original Watchmen story and Lex Luthor's responses and you really thought humanity would stay together like you thought that would be the thing that would bring humanity together you know you thought that you know having some common force and the massive loss of life would be the thing that would unite humanity like if you're the smartest person in the world I would hate to meet the dumbest person in the world now again this works beautifully it worked so well because it's this whole idea that Lex Luthor's just like I mean that's not how I would have done it and if it's not how I would have done it then it was the wrong thing to do but it's funny the way this exchange is done because it's almost like Geoff Johns basically saying Ozymandias is so far out of his element Lex Luthor is so far beyond Ozymandias in terms of who it is that's smarter that it's almost comedic speaking of comedic speaking of funny while the two of them are basically talking to each other of course you got were shocked investigating the Batcave while the two of they were talking to one another a shot gets fired in the office of Lex Luthor only for us to find out that gunshot that bullet came from a comedian how he's there I have no idea I have no idea how the comedian's back I have no idea where he came from I don't even know who he is and it's just like no way no way dude I saw that that was like Jeff jobs man Jeff jobs not only that you end up having Rorschach in the Batcave and he's met by Batman and Batman stay - you ate my breakfast and Rorschach statement is yes I did Batman and were Shaq meet each other for the very first time so Jeff John strikes again and holy hell dude Doomsday Clock number three is so good it is uh man it is it is incredible it's it's it's an amazing story for those of you guys who were just now joining us you know if you if you're just kind of you know hopping on this whole bandwagon of Doomsday Clock Doomsday Clock takes the Watchmen from Allen war and rolls them over into the DC Universe and the last video ended on like a pretty massive cliffhanger which was the return of the comedian because as we've seen in our Watchmen video so far the comedian died at the beginning of the story that's kind of what set the whole Watchmen story in motion was the death of the comedian and so the idea is like you know when he showed up at the end it was okay who's playing the comedian like who in the world is playing the world a comedian somebody's got to be playing his character because I mean the comedians dead and it can't be resurrected from the dead right well the cool thing about this is that it initially opens up with like the comedian seemingly just kind of like up hearing in the water in the DC Universe you know out in the ocean somewhere of course you know swim into the surface and basically coming to and he's met by dr. Manhattan now this is huge this is massive on the surface it doesn't seem that huge but this is huge because he's wearing the exact same outfit you know the bathrobe and everything that he was wearing when he originally died the indication here is that dr. Manhattan intervened or resurrected the comedian now I would say dr. Manhattan probably intervened if he resurrected the comedian then like Eddie Blake would have just shown up like on a street somewhere or in a building somewhere but what it looks like is at the time he was being thrown out of the building when he was basically being attacked in the beginning of Watchmen and before he hit the ground he was effectively teleported away and we've seen that happen right I mean that was a whole basis of the Oz effect mr. Oz is the father of Superman he was supposed to die when Krypton exploded but instead dr. Manhattan stepped in and whisked him away teleported him away from Krypton and threw him on earth and then basically forced him to you know percenter perceive earth and to see earth from everything that was going on in the eyes of you know just a normal person and so on and so forth but reason why this is such a big deal is because it's been established in the Watchmen at least in the original box plan watch my colleagues dr. Manhattan cannot time travel he can't travel back and forth through Todd he can perceive time all and you know all happening at once and so because that it's really intriguing because either this means he has a new set of powers or time is passing differently in the Watchmen universe than it is in the main DC universe but again it's one of those weird mysteries that goes on we don't know exactly how all these pieces fit together it is really intriguing and it is really interesting now the other half of this is we're not really given a time frame of when this is that comedian landed here we don't know if this happened 20 years ago we don't know if this happened five years ago if it happened you know an hour and a half ago we don't know exactly when this took place all we know is somewhere along the line when comedian was falling to his death he was whisked away by Manhattan he ended up in the DC Universe and at this point we pick up with his attempt to take out Ozymandias now of course this leads to a leads to him really you know trying to kill Ozymandias because of everything that happened in the whole watchmen comic of course kind of picking up with the idea of Doomsday Clock and so on and so forth did the other half of this is that Lex Luthor was kind of caught in the crossfire right like the killing shot meant for Ozymandias was you know ended up hitting Lex Luthor instead but the fight that breaks out is pretty intense and it's very reminiscent of what we would expect in this kind of a situation comedian versus dr. Manhattan I'm sorry a comedian versus versus you know Ozymandias and it is pretty intriguing because remember Ozymandias is supposedly one of the fastest people our lives if not the fastest man alive in Watchmen because he was able to like catch bullets and so on and so forth the reaction time was unbelievable but again it's kind of crazy because you know Eddie Blake starts talking about things like how death changes a man but again it's it's it's kind of a mystery here we don't know how all this stuff fits together now of course you know Ozymandias is able to make his escape Lex Luthor's kind of left behind oxidized oh man is is injured in the fall then at that point we pick up with Rorschach and Batman and that was really like the biggest cliffhanger of issue number two was war Shaq meeting Batman for the first time but remember this is not Walter or this is not you know Walter corvex I know I keep saying corvex but it's been hinted right off the bat or is at least we've been told white off the bat this is not the original Rorschach the two of them meeting each other is really intriguing and so it's really kind of Jeff John's hitting home at this idea of saying hey look this person is not the original war Shaq but he does have possession of war shacks journal and this is cool because he basically passes this information to Batman passionate the journal to him and says you need to read this you need to read this journal and everything entailed within it now at this point we pick up with marionette and mine now remember marionette and mime are like the old Charlton comic characters again closely guys who are relatively new while Marvel and DC do stand is like the biggest and most popular coming for publishers right now with like value in an image in a really really close second what you also had back in like way back in the day really before Marvel became Marvel back when it was like Atlas and maybe even timely as you had Charlton publications and Charlton created a lot of characters Blue Beetle different things like that and a lot of those characters are just kind of rolled over into DC when DC bought Charlton just because the fact that Charlton couldn't keep up with DC in terms of sales but marionette and mime are these are you know kind of a tribute to these old Charlton characters a design to kind of be a homage to these old superheroes from back in the day but for the most part when they when they popped up people immediately got the vibe of like the Joker and Harley Quinn and it's designed to be that way and the reason why is because when they've been thrust into the DC Universe they show up in Gotham City and it's really intriguing here because once they get into Gotham well then the question becomes you know what is this place let's explore the city and let's see what's going on they basically make their way to a to a bar of sorts which is the Joker's bar and this is cool because the Joker you know one thing to keep in mind when it comes to to DC Comics the Joker has these different little places here and there use different places he operates out of a way to kind of build as revenue different things like that to kind of make sure that this stream of money flows to a degree or at least to always access henchmen and it is interesting because marionette and mine don't know who the Joker is but it is funny because a fight inevitably breaks out here when they kind of show up and they're like look we don't know who the Joker isn't we don't really care we end up having mine basically pull an invisible gun now this is all new to me I mean this this is new for the most part I mean this is office is really like uncharted water where previously it was believed at mine wielding like invisible weapons or at least mining weapons what he actually has our invisible weapons he's got an invisible gun he's got invisible daggers and he actually shoots a person with this invisible gun it's really cool and it's really really intriguing because it kind of throws people off you have a guy who walks in here and it looks like he's got a gun in his hand but in reality you don't see anything but then suddenly the trigger gets pulled as a flash of light and somebody's brains are all over the other side of the room so it's really really interesting now of course these two one of the things that that the Geoff Johns hit home is the idea that they're very sadistic they're designed to be reminiscent of what we would expect with the Joker and Harley Quinn and so they tear all these guys apart and they they literally crush every single one of these guys and with everybody having been taken out everybody having been you know more or less killed off the question they have is who's this joker guy and let's go find out who he is let's go see what's going on with this Joker fella it's really intriguing and it's super interesting now from here we basically pick up with well really with a lot of ways Johnny Thunder and this is kind of a big deal now Johnny Thunder is a character that we've talked about before and he really kind of had his big moment only really a couple of appearance appearance is so far I want to say one was in the button and the other one was in DC Universe rebirth number one but Johnny Thunder is a throwback to like one of DC's oldest characters he really is I mean he goes all the way back to flash comics number one in 1940 so he's been around for a long long time now in truth the reason why Johnny Thunder is so significant here or at least the reason why I think they're invoking his character is because Johnny Thunder is a character that's in possession of what amounts to basically a genie I want to say his pronounces is it's like it's like Y Z or something like that but it's basically called a thunderbolt when Johnny Thunder accesses this power he basically becomes a reality warper like it's insane how powerful he is he can do virtually anything he wants to now this is all pre-crisis stuff I mean this is all stuff back from like you know all-star comics number 42 in like 1948 and this is all old-school stuff before crisis on Infinite Earths now DC could grab it and they could roll it over but Johnny Thunder as we see him here being an old man all indications is that the post-crisis landscape for Johnny Thunder is still intact me he doesn't really have the Thunderbolt power anymore he doesn't really have the power of the genie anymore but it doesn't mean that he can't it doesn't mean that it's not possible for that to happen we've seen him you know have it originally then we saw him lose it Hakeem picked it up who was basically a post-crisis character that was designed to kind of reinvigorate and reinvent the character of Johnny Thunder or at least the concept of the Thunderbolt um eventually Johnny Thunder is kind of you know basically died and then of course he came back to her in blackest night but the fact remains that I mean it's entirely possible that even if he's not necessarily the one that would be in possession of the is genie the Thunderbolt power it doesn't mean he can't get into contact who we know with those who can but it is intriguing because again we're talking about a guy who has reality-warping power or at least with the is genie would have reality-warping power now all that brings in a sharp relief the question if the that power is that strong then like what hope would it would they have even against talking about hatton anyway because the power of the genie was basically equal to the power of mr. Mixel pedelec but we saw in Superman reborn that mr. Bixler pedelec was terrified of dr. Manhattan I mean that was one of the things that was fleshed out that Mister you know Mitchell petal-like had at some point in time come into contact with Manhattan and realized that even with all his reality were in power Mixel pedelec was basically dwarfed by the power that dr. Manhattan had so again it really kind of begs the question what hope do they have but if they do have a reality warper on their side then conceivably they stand a better chance than just kind of Superman fighting against dr. Manhattan and hoping for the best now this also brings into sharp relief the nature of the JSA right the Justice Society of America you know that was really kind of like DC's way of answering the question why is it that Jay Garrick the original flash doesn't exist anymore in DC said well I mean you know all the superhero stories where you see Barry Allen running around as a flash that all takes place on earth one all the superhero stories where you see Jay Garrick as the flash that's all on earth too and it was pretty simple for a time anyway until really about ten years later when I just turned into absolute madness but it's well-established that for the most part geoff johns loves the Silver Age of comics and rightfully so because back then it was really more of like light-hearted superhero fare as opposed to now when the stories are a little more gritty and a little more reflective of the nature of the world that we Livan and so with the return of the JSA it would almost seem like this kind of missing link in DC Comics would sort of be rounded out it would be like if Marvel brought the Fantastic Four back there's something about the DC Universe that's just not right it's just kind of missing that one thing that really kind of sets it all off you know Shazam is another character who's missing Martian Manhunter there's a handful of things that are out there that would help to kind of complete the DC Universe in the eyes of fans but in terms of the impact of the Justice Society it's bringing an era of comics where hope is really the name of the game that was the base that was the way it was with the JSA and when you look at things where it's like well because of the Superman theory and because of the fact that you know 97% of all the superheroes originated on earth and because you have all these different you know programs out there the Russian government that's using you know they're kind of metahuman testing to basically weed out people and arrest them and they believe to be metahumans it's almost like this idea that Jon's is kind of going back to his you know they're kind of Infinite Crisis roots where this is a criticism of superhero stories essays this now I wouldn't say this is as heavy-handed is Infinite Crisis but I will say that it's kind of hitting at the idea that either the DC Universe is kind of going down the same path as The Watchmen in the sense of the earth is kind of on a collision course for self-destruction or it's a criticism of the idea that the world kind of seems hopeless at the moment in the DC universe that things are pretty dark and what the DC Universe needs is a spark of light they need something to kind of say hey look guys it's not as bad as you think it is and having old man Flash Jay Garrick you know having old man Green Lantern Alan Scott having these characters just kind of show up and basically be this kind of beacon where they sort of set the landscape and they're kind of these other superheroes that embody the hopeful concepts of Superman would really kind of beef that up a bit that kind of seems to be what Geoff Johns is hitting out here now again that's speculation online on body half it's not really anything guaranteed is not a solidified thing it's just kind of how I look at it and interpret it because you know as a person who is really relatively new to DC I will say that from what I've seen with people commenting it feels like something is kind of missing and maybe that JSA is you know the key maybe it's that little puzzle piece that would sort of flush things out in their entirety at this point we switch back over to Rorschach and again in this story were shocked is taking up residence in Gotham I'm sorry and not though in Wayne Manor only temporarily but what we end up getting is the reveal of his face now we don't get a name here all we get is a reveal of his face and the indication is that he is actually the son of Malcolm long that he is actually the son of the psychiatrist of the original workshop but we're not given a name so we don't know for sure the indication seems to be the play it seems to be the case you know we knew that Malcolm long had a son Malcolm long and his wife are both african-american clearly this version of of Rorschach is african-american we knew that just because of the reveal of his hand but of course with the face and everything we also know that's an absolute certainty the clues are there and it really kind of seems to be thrown in our face but it could also be a red herring so again until a name is dropped we're not given an absolute certainty but you know that kind of seems to be the case which we can probably run with that we could probably take that as some measure of a gospel truth but the fact remains here what we end up having is Batman going through the entirety of the original war shock journal and basically meeting with you know this this new war shack once he wakes up after having slept for like 24 hours and it's intriguing because Batman basically says hey look I think I know where this guy's at like I know where dr. Manhattan is we have to go find dr. Manhattan and it's really really cool because what ends up happening is he says look I think this guy is in this facility over here so like we need to go check this out I'm pretty sure I know where he is he leaves were shocked to this location opens the door Rorschach walks in and all there is is writing on a back wall that says we're all mad here and Batman shuts the door behind him and says look I'm sorry but you belong in here we end up finding out this place is Arkham Asylum that Batman believes Rorschach is a crazy person and as a result just locks him up and throws away the key and that's what's so interesting about this is because Rorschach's not crazy and he is to a degree assuming that this guy is anything like the original Walter Kovacs like he is kind of crazy to a degree but it doesn't mean he's wrong a broken clock is Right twice a day and this guy's basically coming with news saying hey look the end is at hand the end is nigh there's a being walking around in your universe that Dwarfs all the power that you have the events that you experienced in the button that death of eobard on being able to see your father you know this mysterious power source out there that destroyed the White Lantern Corps I know what it is and I know what it's capable of but Batman doesn't believe any of it to be true he doesn't really think any of it's legit and ultimately it kind of calls it a day Bruce Wayne has not connected the dots now the question becomes what happens when he does okay so we are officially picking up with Doomsday Clock part four I know it's been a little while since we've covered Doomsday Clock it's being released like bimonthly now which is really disappointing because the story so good and like I'm always on the edge like like dude I really want to know what happens next but we are on part for it and this is the origin of like the new Rorschach and this is kind of cool because what this is going to do is basically prove me wrong and prove a lot of people right and I know those are lower or those of you guys who were part of my channel who were just like I don't care what happens as long as Rob is wrong so like it's it's fine it's not a huge deal to me it doesn't really matter to me but this is cool because this gives us like the origin of this new version I remember playing a little bit of catch-up for those of you guys who were you know just now jumping into things or who have forgotten the idea is that that Geoff Johns is kind of blending the DC Universe with the Watchmen universe and we didn't know who this version of war Shack was all we knew was that war shack had just popped up inside of the Doomsday Clock stories and of course we knew it wasn't like the original Walter corvax because he died at the end of Watchmen and so in this the questioner buddy had was who is this new version of work Shack what in the world is going on here and so what this does and it's a little a little confusing at first because it actually kind of bounces back and forth because of the fact that this version of war shack had basically appeared in the Batcave had made his way in there and then ultimately was you know taken by that man and tricked him to Arkham Asylum he's basically just been residing here ever since but what it does is it jumps back and forth between the past and the present now it's designed to be this way Geoff Johns has been writing comic book stories long enough that if his intention is not to like create bewilderment then he won't create it and so the fact that this story is just kind of like bouncing around and almost leaving us with a state of confusion in terms of what's happening in the present was happening in the past that's designed to be the nature of like the Rorschach character his mind is quite literally a wreck it's absolutely decimated in so many different ways and the reason for this is because what we do is we initially pick up when he was younger basically he's the son of Malcolm long he's the son of the psychologist that was analyzing Walter Kovacs analyzing the original Rorschach and picking up with him will be finding out is that when his father essentially took on the case of Walter there were a lot of things that were going on in the background that you know were shacks what it's called Moore Shack for the sake of it there were sharks mom was really kind of an estate like she was struggling because her husband was becoming more and more distant and that was in the original watchman comic like that's the way that story originally went down is that Malcolm long became more and more separated from his family it became an obsession the desire to learn about war Shack and the desire to learn what made war Shack tick what made the original Walter Kovacs tick that became like the drive of of Malcolm I'm sorry Malcolm long himself of Reggie's dad and so because that it eventually drove a wedge between Reggie's mom and Reggie's father but we didn't know the effect that it had on Reggie and initially it didn't have a huge one it didn't have a massive effect on him he was just kind of watching things that were going on and he was sort of looking at these protests and so on and so forth but all that changed in the attack on New York when this monster was unleashed in this huge psychic backlash just swept across the city and killed three some odd million people and had this massive effect on him because what it did is it drove him insane it drove him crazy he was one of the survivors of this whole incident he was rescued by the cops he was taken to an insane asylum and that was really about it he was kind of left there in fact he was taken to the same institution that Mothman was taken to you in the Watchmen comic so before the Watchmen comic started and so while the two of them were occupying his cell what we end up having is we end up having this guy dr. Matthew Mason who shows up and this is kind of cool because what geoff johns does is he puts on this kind of show that like the cycle repeats itself that walter corvax basically becomes a vigilante he goes crazy he ends up getting caught on he ends up being thrown into an institution and then you end up having like like Malcolm longer shows up I'm not gonna long interviews them and then Malcolm long starts to become the new Rorschach and that drives a wedge in his family this cycle repeats itself here of course Reggie's not married he doesn't have any children of his own but still the the after effects the impact of what Rorschach is and what it stands for is almost like this sort of virus that spreads throughout things and even Reggie himself is having like these hallucinations he's losing his mind he's seeing like the eye of the monster in the forehead of Matthew Mason this is the nature of things and that's why this story can get a little bit confusing because it bounces back and forth between the past and the present but again this is designed to tell the story of how it was that Reggie long met Adrian Veidt and so in his effort to basically escape this mental institution what he does he incapacitates one of the guards when they show up with food or what-have-you and then takes off to the roof of the building to try to get away and in truth it's really one of these things of like I just want to get away from all this like I want be out of here this is not where I belong but when he gets up there he basically ends up meeting Mothman and Mothman statement is like I'm flying away I'm getting out of this place I don't need to be here I'm perfectly sane and he literally puts on like a moth suit we're really just kind of like winged he's like makeshift wings made out of bedsheets really and then just flies away into the moon where Reggie's basically taken by the security guards and brought back to the institution itself now shortly after this this is where things get cool shortly after this uh you end up having Mothman who's essentially caught by the cops what he's just outside of like this diner and then he's brought back to the asylum and him and Reggie begin this sort of not really a father-son relationship but they begin like a friendly relationship they start talking to each other all the time now for Byron Byron Lewis he was a really interesting concept in the watchman's stories I mean he came from a life of privilege like he never really struggled financially and for him like being a superhero initially was more like hey let's just go have fun it was more like an adventurous sort of thing now that began to change when he joined groups like the Minuteman and then he stepped into the role of saying well let's actually do some good in the world different things like that the issue is that in the Watchmen comics because the Age of Heroes wasn't met in the same way it was and like DC or marvel in the sense that like superheroes were effectively shunned not really superheroes the people who dressed in costumes a really kind of shunned eventually what ended up happening is like when the whole anti you know superhero era came along when the whole anti mask era came along and even during the height of McCarthyism what you had was Byron who basically succumb to like alcoholism as a result of like all the dangers and perils that went into being a superhero and so the result was that he was confined to a mental asylum in Maine which seems to be where this whole thing is going on but the idea here is that he was always an exceedingly smart guy and for him it was a matter of like putting the pieces together and looking around and seeing everything that was going on and where he is a person that plays the role of a friend to Reggie what he ends up doing is he actually manages to gather a whole bunch of Malcolm Long's belongings and bring them to Reggie he basically gives his son his father's things and so the result is that Reggie starts going through and looking at like the Journal of Rorschach looking at the notes of his father listening to the recordings all these things and as time progresses because of the fact that Reggie is in such a fractured fragile mental state Woody ends up doing is actually adopting the persona and the personality of were shocked now again this is cool because what you have John's kind of teases here and really what Allen wore was sort of shooting for was that anybody could be war shot that was the point of the mask anybody could be behind that mask but that's the basis behind that's why superheroes were perceived to be so dangerous is because nobody knew who they were you're a copy editor by day and like a vigilante by night just smashing people's heads in and breaking their fingers and thumbs and hands like that's that's the whole thing that went behind that and so for Reggie like he kind of stands with this embodiment of war shock in the sense that at the end of the day Walter Kovacs was just a guy who had enough in his mind it was a matter of trying to find a way to curb the violence so to speak you know being the killer who kills killers if that makes any sense and so with Reggie being in that state being you know basically like victimized by the various authorities who were there the orderlies inside the insane asylum being treated like crap he just kind of falls down tumbles down into this path of Rorschach tumbles down into the role of Walter Kovacs not only that it's almost I wouldn't see how as far as to say it's a little bit of manipulation but I would go as far as to say that when it comes to Mothman is intriguing because what he says is he he starts going through and like there's this puzzle they're working on and the puzzle is ultimately the face of Ozymandias and it's him basically saying if you know how to look at this picture of the right way then you know what's going on and that's what happened with Reggie Reggie just started putting all the pieces together he looked at the Journal of Walter Kovacs everything that was going on and said like this is the fault of Adrian Veidt it was always the falter of Adrian Veidt initially he was kind of trying to figure things out and trying to work on things until he got to the end of the journal of Walter Kovacs when Walter Kovacs basically says like Adrian Veidt is the reason behind all this and that's the funny thing is because no one else has quite figured this out yet and the newsreels there's indications there's there's you know people who were like speculating and saying well it seems like it's Adrian Veidt and super you know smart scientists and things like that people who are trying to answer the question of what was going on social psychologists and what-have-you are analysing like everything that was taking place and saying well all the clues seem to point to Adrian Veidt but Reggie long is the only person that has incontrovertible proof that Adrian Veidt was behind it all and that's where he full-on steps into the role of were shocked because now what he does is he looks around and says there's a guy out there they killed three million people what would war Shack have done what would Walter Kovacs have done well Walter Kovacs would have killed him that's what Walter Kovacs believed needed to be done that Adrian Veidt had to be stopped so I'm going to pick up the slack I'm gonna continue on this mission of Walter Kovacs I'm going to kill Adrian Veidt and at this point it just breaks down to the question of how can it be done how can it be pulled off and this is when people begin to start realizing that adrian veidt's the one behind all this that's when it really began to go topsy-turvy because remember when it came to light the time gap between the watchmen comics and the Doomsday Clock comics we don't have anything to fill in that gap all we have is what's been told to us by Geoff Johns and like what interviews have been done and what speculation exists on the Internet but by and large this answers that question it tells us that like at the end of Watchmen the world was united in response to like this giant monster that killed three million people in New York the world was united in mourning and the world looked to make the world a better place because people began to realize how fragile they were and then the information came out that Adrian Veidt was behind it all and then that fragility shattered and the world was worse off than it was before Veidt went through this whole scheme of unleashing this monster in New York you know because people realize they've been tricked they'd been duped it wasn't an actual piece and so in light of all this what Reggie does is he actually sets a fire inside the institution and where he and Mothman are gonna leave and go find Adrian instead Mothman goes back into the building as someone just allows himself to die and so then you have Reggie who just takes on the whole war shaq mantle and goes to find Adrian Veidt who's basically on the Percy buys this tanker out in the middle of nowhere but when he gets there it's intriguing and this is where we start to get like the reggie personality and the worshop personality who are a little in conflict when Reggie shows up to kill Adrian Veidt Adrian Veidt just kind of turns around and says look you can kill me if you want to but like I'm dying anyway like it's only a matter of time before I die like there's there's nothing that could be done I've basically got brain cancer and it's kind of cool here because in truth like if Adrian Veidt were going to die anyway of what purpose would be served by Rorschach killing him this kind of the stance that ready takes work shot kills people who would otherwise be able to continue on their normal lives just doing whatever it is they want to do all the time but for Adrian Veidt he's not really a criminal he's not really a bad guy and that's the reason why this this whole situation works that's the reason why this is so cool one of the classic examples in a situation like this is the trolley train right like you're a trolley conductor and the brakes go out on the other brakes go out and all you have at your control is like the steering column and you can steer the trolley on one of two sets of tracks on one set of tracks is one construction worker and he's totally oblivious has no idea this Charlie train is just hurtling towards him is gonna smash into him and and and kill him entirely but if you steer it to the other tracks there's five construction workers you have to choose between one or the other which one do you choose will you choose the one construction worker you kill that one guy in order to save those five guys it's utilitarianism and when you're Adrian Veidt and you're looking around and you say humanity there's there's seven you know seven some odd billion people are six or five or whatever then the absolute number count was at the time the story was written when you have however many billions of people in the world who are all going to be destroyed because the clock is inching ever closer to nuclear war between the u.s. and the USSR then like what steps do you take to unite people people don't unite willingly anymore it doesn't work that way people have to be united when there's like a massive catastrophe what he needed was a catalyst he needed something that would force humanity to unite because they had to not because they wanted to and so that's what that monster was the monster showed up in the city of New York it killed three million of some odd people and it was like oh my god you know the the terrible situation this is so awful you know in the humanity and so on and so forth but in light of how terrible things were and the massive amount of casualties humanity United and that was the goal of Adrian Veidt what he didn't pay attention to and what he didn't think about was the aftermath and that's the cool thing here is because this goes into that whole moral philosophy like like what what makes an act good is it you know the consequence or is it the act itself you know is it the intention behind the act if adrian veidt's intention was to unite humanity and make the world a better place he's a good guy if all you care about is the consequence the world's worse off after what he did than it was before he did what he did then he's a bad guy he made things terrible but that's the difference here Adrian Veidt wasn't looking to rob people he wasn't looking to unleash a monster in New York and then steal everybody's valuables while they were all distracted he was trying to make the world a legitimate better place and so because of that like you kind of have to have pity on him and that's where he sort of began to give up that's where he looked around and said if humanity really wanted to unite it would have if people really wanted to solve the world's problems then they would have but they don't want to solve the world's problems they want to goose-step themselves into nuclear war between the u.s. and the USSR there's nothing that could be done whatever happens happens and that's why he teamed up with with Reggie long and that's why I said we have to go find dr. Manhattan we have to bring him back what will happen when they do we don't know Manhattan might show up and say well humanity's gonna kill itself anyway so I'll just help them on help them along a little bit and just wipe away the world there's any number of things that could go on and in like the whole Watchmen universe so because of that what we ended up doing is with the two of them teaming up and that of course is where Doomsday Clock number one picks up we jump back to the modern day here in issue number four after Reggie had been thrown into Arkham Asylum by Bruce Wayne and so one is um happening here is basically he has a conversation with what appears to be Saturn girl from to superheroes because she's been locked up in Arkham Asylum the entire time that's where she's been this whole time that was teased back in DC universe rebirth number one and so what she says is like we have to get out of here like we have to make our escape she's already out like she's literally out of herself and just roaming around and she's like we have to get out of here you know because I don't have that much time and whatever is coming is gonna require like the entire superhero community if we don't work together we're all going to dot and that's what's cool because it's basically saying like dr. Manhattan is coming here it's only a matter of time before he does and so the two of them basically team up and who knows what happens at that you know I'm about to find out the next issue what we also end up finding out and this is a cool indication here what seems to have happened is that dr. Matthew Mason was a fictional person he didn't exist instead it looks it looks like it was Alfred Pennyworth although I still think it's Batman but it looks like it was Alfred Pennyworth who was disguised as Matthew Mason who went walking into the insane asylum pretending to be a psychologist trying to understand who wore shuck is and that makes sense Batman's not gonna take that person throw him into Arkham Asylum and then just throw away the key and never ever ask any questions that it doesn't work like that it's always the significance of gathering information finding out as much as you can as often as you can and that's exactly what's been going on here they've basically been investigating Reggie long without him knowing it and so that's where the question becomes will Batman side with Reggie or will batman stand against Reggie okay so we are continuing on with Doomsday Clock a lot of you guys have been asking where the Doomsday Clock videos have been the story comes out every other month now although I believe they've backed it up so that now that it's monthly but it's one of those weird things where it was supposed to be monthly you were supposed to last a full year and the way that DC seemed to be going is you had like the DC rebirth initiative and it was like the rebirth initiative would end when this whole thing picked up basically when when Doomsday Clock concluded that would go into the next phase of DC but because it's been backed up it looks like it'll stretch on for three years so I have no idea comes out four times a year and it's 12 issues long so so yes it's kind of crazy it's a weird situation but we basically end up picking up of course you know in in the aftermath of the last one now one thing to bear in mind here is that this really is like Geoff Johns vision like Geoff Johns and Gary Frank which by the way Gary Frank man this guy is just stupidly talented but it really fits into like the vision of what they have you know like if the watchmen met the DC Universe they saw this whole thing fits in but with Adrian Veidt when they crossed over into the DC landscape initially like he went to go check out Lex Luthor and then of course Rorschach went to go check out Batman and the result was that Rorschach was basically thrown in Arkham Asylum by Batman because it was like this guy's illusion this guy's absolutely nutso of course Batman ended up following up pretending to be an interviewer in order to get an understanding of Rorschach's mind but what you had is Adrian Veidt who basically took a bullet for Lex Luthor when he was shot at by the comedian and again it was a wafer for John to just start bringing in all these different characters and so on so what this does is it basically picks up immediately after or not really immediately but it picks up shortly after all this with Adrian Veidt in a hospital and so of course he's basically being guarded here and the perception is that Adrian Veidt seems to be a metahuman there's no actual indication that's the case and in fact Adrian Veidt himself doesn't actually have any powers but the reason why he's perceived to be a metahuman is because of the outfit he was wearing he was basically dressed as a costume superhero and so it was assumed he was a costumed superhero and his powers were just unknown and so with there being additional security of course Adrian Veidt basically wakes up and then attracts the attention of a couple of guards by making it appear as though he's flatlined and then subdue them now this is cool because this is like the small little things that go into what Geoff Johns does right like Geoff Johns is one of these guys who's like a master storyteller when it comes to crafting comic book stories like him and Jonathan Hickman are like my two favorite comic book writers of all time with Scott Snyder and Al Ewing at a close second so it's it's cool when it comes to this whole thing because it's a way to basically say like here's why Adrian Veidt is so interesting is because his capabilities are universal like it doesn't matter what he like what universe he's in his intelligence is there but from here of course he grabs Bubastis basically takes off out of the hospital and then goes about his own business and so from here we switch over to Lois Lane now again this is why I love John's writing so much is because everybody gets a little piece of this pie right like everybody's in this whole thing and the whole gist behind this is that it's all really focused on the Superman theory now again for those of you guys who are really this is kind of what you're jumping into with this one one I would highly suggest that you guys go back in and watch the other videos or buy the other comics and - the whole idea of the Superman theory is that someone somewhere had basically drawn the conclusion that all the superheroes in the DC universe or at least a huge brunt of them originated from the United States and so where they do have their own origin stories a lot of their origin stories are cloak and dagger in a lot of different ways someone as iconic as Superman is more well-known but Batman is an enigma no one really knows Batman's Bruce Wayne outside of the bat family no one really knows what goes on with his character and you have all these different superheroes who exist around the landscape you know and even super villains and they're really a mystery to a lot of people and so because of that theories began to arise the most prominent of which is that the federal government is creating metahumans and so what you end up having is you have Lois Lane who's really just kind of speaking with Clark Kent about the whole thing and then in turn she basically goes to visit Lex Luthor who of course is in the hospital as well and the encounter between the two is actually really really intriguing here because it's her really just kind of breaking down and going through step by step and it's even like Lex Luthor himself doing the same thing now Lex Luthor really the kind of revelation that gets dropped here at least from Lex Luthor's perspective is what he tells Lois Lane while Superman's listening to the whole thing is he's like look I don't know everything about the Superman the Superman theory but the whole point of Lois is that she believes Luthor is at the center of it and that works because remember this version of Lois Lane is from a quote-unquote previous universe but the Lex Luthor she's familiar with is the mastermind the bad guy the guy who's always pulling the strings and so when she sees this Lex Luthor and she sees something like the Superman conspiracy her thought is Lex Luthor has to be behind it but the response of Lex Luthor is I'm not pulling any strings I have nothing to do with this I don't even know how far down this rabbit hole goes the only thing that I can tell you with any real measure of certainty is that one whoever it is is helping the federal government humans is a metahuman themselves and two they used to be a member of the Justice League now one of the theme to good to kind of bear in mind is that Geoff Johns plays it fast and loose and that's kind of the cool thing is you throws out this possibility that maybe it really is all just smoke and mirrors that maybe Lex Luthor is just kind of full of hoo-ha juice he doesn't really even know what's going on he's putting on a show to make it look like he's still you know Lex Luthor is he's always been and all that kind of good stuff and so it works for what it is and it is pretty intriguing but at this point we pick up with a couple of things that are going on oh really one of the most notable is something that involves a guy by the name of Johnny Thunder now we talked about him before in one of the previous videos the idea was that Johnny Thunder basically was in possession of like a genie or a demon of sorts whatever you wanted to call it but basically like when that aspect of his personality came out he was crazy powerful and that's the funny thing here is he's an older man now and it's really been that way ever since crisis on Infinite Earths right like you had Johnny Thunder back in the day and he was like a really really powerful character back before 1985 and then when DC rebooted back in 1985 with crisis on Infinite Earths Johnny Thunder came back but he wasn't in the same capacity instead he was just kind of like an older guy who was there and so picking up with with Adrian Veidt of course he travels back to basically whether it were the the vessel first cross or they were flying the ship of night owl which again by the way there's a handful of characters that we haven't seen here yet night owl we don't really know where he is we have no idea where like Sally Jupiter is these are characters that are basically just mi-8 and we don't really know what's going on but of course he basically travels back to his ship and he's met by Batman Batman of course has had the the the I guess the Journal of worship this entire time and he's like I've read everything about you I know all about you now this is the first time that Adrian Veidt and Batman actually meet and there's going to be an amazing conversation that goes on between the two of them here in the next little while but something else that I also want to draw your attention to is Saturn girl now of course we saw in like the last story the last little tidbit here that Saturn girl was one of the people who had been housed inside of Arkham Asylum and she'd been there ever since rebirth kicked off and presumably even before that but she was just Jane Doe nobody really knew anything about her and that makes sense because Saturn girl is part of the Legion of super-heroes you know this 30th 31st century team that exists in the future and it's basically like that universe or I guess that futures iteration of the Justice League now the Legion of super-heroes is something that we haven't really talked about before but they have a huge following but the whole idea that Legion of super-heroes in DC Comics was one of these sort of combination testbeds as well as trying to figure out what to do next in a sense that back in really the the 1940s you had the stories of Superboy and the stories of Superboy were designed to basically say here's what Superman was doing between the time that he first arrived on earth and the time that he traveled to Metropolis and became Superman but DC started to run into problems these problems included things like continuity airs the origin of a villain that Superman faces off against is told in Johanna Superboy but the origin and Superboy does not match the origin in Superman the other half of this was that you can only ever really tell so many stories about Superboy's antics before even at that point in time it stretches the limits of credulity and so the question was what else can we do with this character and so because Superboy was so popular DC brought in the Legion of super-heroes and then eventually sent Superboy off with the team basically allies it would face off against various threats and the popularity of Superboy elevated the popularity of the Legion of super-heroes and that led to them becoming some of the most I really like one of the most iconic teams that DC's had a long time it's almost like this trifecta the Justice League the Legion of super-heroes and the Teen Titans but the idea is that Saturn girls basically here and this is really the first time that we see geoff johns addressing the fact that it is Saturn girl now that was thrown out in in DC Universe rebirth number one but since then she really hasn't been referenced as Saturn girl but Saturn girl has the ability to read minds and so when she's going through and and really you know I guess reading the mind of Rorschach that's when we start getting into things like Sally Jupiter as when we start getting into like all these different variations of characters that exist in the Watchmen universe that we would expect to see here we haven't seen them and there's no information about where they went to but we do know that like in some former fashion they probably do exist and so again from here we switch over to marionette and her husband now again these are basically like these old charlton characters but the fact that Geoff Johns rolled them into this story as soon as they made their appearance we knew right off the bat that we're gonna run into the Joker it was only ever a matter of time what we know is that when they started showing up as soon as they arrived in Gotham City as soon as they landed here they started seeing these various villains or these various henchmen who are running around dressed as clowns and their question was who are these guys and why are they dressed as clowns and the more they investigated the more they basically learned about the Joker and so that's when their question was who's the Joker who is this guy we want to meet him and see what he's about we're gonna put into the test and hopefully hopefully we're gonna find him wanting like that's that's what they're shooting for here and that's what they've been doing all this time we want the Joker and the best way to get the Joker's attention is to take what he desires most and that's literally what they've been doing they've been going through and causing all kinds of problems robbing various places busting in to Joker's facilities so on and so forth just different things like that and so the result here is that we basically pick up with really with like Ozymandias Adrian Veidt and Batman having this conversation as they're essentially traveling around and they're basically heading out to you know wherever it is they're heading out to and as they have this conversation it's amazing because really like Adrian Veidt raises like this concern that I've been arguing the entire time that Batman and really like the DC superhero landscape as a whole and even like extending that to like Marvel Comics what adrian veidt's says is like on my on my earth I made everything better like I wind us off of oil I weaned us off of gasoline I basically improve the world in a variety of different ways nuclear disarmament these are all things that were done by efforts that I put in but here you are a guy who dresses as a bat and beats up people in the middle of the night and your city is no better off than it was before you ever became a superhero in the first place that Superman is really the only person who's been able to land in a city take up residence there and make it safer just because Superman so hot so powerful but the responsive Adrian Veidt is your your efforts are useless like you serve no real purpose here you don't do any good for the city of Gotham you're just another wrench in the works and that's it and so that that's when he kind of asked the question what have you ever done to make the world a better place how was the world better off now than it was before you showed up and as in this is a cool situation because it's not the world really like Gotham City is not a better place than before Batman got there Batman hasn't done anything he hasn't done any good he's a dog chasing its tail and that's what invite really kind of brings up the idea of dr. Manhattan and kind of asks a question maybe that's why he came here he really wanted to see why you guys are me and ring around in such useless roles why do you guys are spinning your tails like why you guys think you're actually affecting change when you're not doing anything at all and what would lead you to believe that you're actually doing anything when the evidence shows that you're not like that's the cool thing about this because at the end of the day Vice whole stance is I failed I mean I tried to unite the world under a singular cause and it failed but at least I did something you're doing nothing and that's the funny thing here because it comes down to the old adage doing things changes things doing nothing keeps things exactly as they are and so what we do here is we pick up with Johnny Thunder now the idea here is that Johnny Thunder has basically been trying to find the lantern of his friend is really what he's saying you know if I find my friends Lantern I'll find my friend and I'll find the rest of my friends and I won't be alone basically he's trying to find the rest of the JSA now looking at things that we've seen from DC rebirth so far we know about a few characters here and there and where they're located at for example Jay Garrick is stuck inside the Speed Force because dr. Manhattan won't let him leave but characters like talon scott all these different members of the of the JSA proper we don't really know where they are and so with this in mind we end up having like Johnny Thunder being chased by like a handful of a handful of criminals and like running through sewer systems and so on and going and cutting through corridors at the same time man thrown out of the actual vessel by Adrian Veidt and Adrian's this kind of like Bessel lucky man because all these protests and everything it's all for Batman they want him like they literally want him to pay for all the things that he's done and so this is like an awesome segment because what happens here is that as Johnny Thunders making his way through these sewers he turns a corner and there's the lantern of alan scott and as soon as i saw that i was like holy like holy how i can't blow it like we have the green lantern of alan scott like this is so cool because i'm about you guys but i look at stuff like this and it makes me nostalgic for an era of comics that i wasn't part of you know branded Johnny Thunder can't do anything with the lantern but we know where the lantern is and if we know where the lantern is then we can trace it back to to Alan Scott and eventually figure out what's going on with it and that's the big question that we're trying that we're trying to understand here because if what we were told in DC Universe rebirth number one is to be believed then what it basically happened here is dr. Manhattan had showed up on the scene right like you had the flash Barry Allen who initiated flashpoint which is where he screwed up the whole universe he tried to set things back things were supposed to go back to normal but some were but you know for some reason dr. Mann hadn't intervened and so what seems to be going on here with regards to the other members of the JSA is that dr. Manhattan basically wiped their their existence from the minds of everyone and maybe even like cost them their own memories of who they are and so you know Alice Scott has no idea who he is he's just kind of floating around out there doing whatever is it he's doing working some job with no idea that he's the original Green Lantern so it's kind of cool but then from there you end up having like Rorschach and Saturn girl who basically rescue him and of course down a girl kind of makes a comment look these guys we're all gonna die of an overdose anyway so the world won't miss them and so picking up with with with marionette it's awesome because one is up happening here is that when they go through and they start causing all this havoc and they basically watch Batman crash down onto the bat signal then they suddenly get a response from someone off someone had a panel who simply just addresses them as YouTube they turn around and we have the Joker and this is amazeballs this is why I love I love Doomsday Clock so much but I hate it at the same time because Geoff Johns ends it on the best cliffhangers and it's just like damn like do these to meet the Joker The Joker's finally here at the same time Rorschach looks to to Johnny Thunder and says explain what this is what is this Lantern and how does this work give us an idea of what in the world is going on and so it's so cool like it's it's it's really really awesome and it's one of the cool things about this is we get like all these cool elements is sort of roll over into the DC universe as we know it I mean it rolls into like all these great concepts and kind of brings them all together and unifies everything in a way that we're that we're hoping comes out of your really I guess will really lead into like the finalized version of the DC landscape post rebirth okay so we are finally getting back in a Doomsday Clock and that's that's a crazy thing do say o'clock comes out like once every two or three months now like it's uh it's it's basically a quarterly publication right I mean this is kind of a weird thing you know if DC rebirth is really going back to the roots of comics it actually kind of makes sense that DC would do something like this I mean this is being done because of you know just delays in the title but back in the day like back when you had like the all-star comics like it was all star quarterly like you had quarterly comics that were released by Marlowe I'm sorry by DC that would usually feature like team-ups different things like that it was a cool concept and in reality I wouldn't mind seeing DC bring back quarterly you know quarterly publications that are like big events or something along those lines but doesn't need to be like Marvel works like a big crossover event every every you know every quarter I mean that's the best a little much but it does fit in with the idea of fitting nicely with what DC is trying to achieve here now really in the the last bit of Doomsday Clock remember this is really kind of Jeff John setting the stage for the post Doomsday Clock era of DC which is to say what comes after Superman's conversation are really probably even battle with dr. Manhattan of course no idea how in the world Superman's gonna win that fight what this did is is in a lot of ways it picked up on really focused on mine and marionette that's really what a lot of of Doomsday Clock had done but up to this point we'd also seen like the return of Johnny Thunder or at least we seen his character featured we saw the return of of the the lantern of Alan Scott so like we know Alan Scott's out there somewhere it's kind of like these little bits and bobs these small little tidbits at Jeff John throws in that it's like the return of the JSA now in truth again when it comes to mom and marionette ah they're basically just you know they're copies of what is a patch and Julie I think it is but they're basically plays on characters that existed in Charlton comics back in the day but with mom and marionette they're essentially new creations and so we didn't really know what their story was we didn't really know where they came from or the last thing we'd seen is they found themselves rolled up in the Joker and so of course when it comes to to the character of marionette herself initially this picks up with this whole scenario of her father just at least seemingly being ransacked in her essentially watching it off now what this does is it really like sets the stage for the tone of the story and really for the nature of them because what it means is it starts things off by essentially saying this girl comes from a very rough past and that's one of the important things because what you've also got is the two of them having met the Joker and that's the big difference here that's really kind of how Jeff John's juxtaposes the Joker with mime and marionette and says they're not actually the same thing because when we first saw them when we first picked up with Doomsday Clock and we looked at mine the marionette is like okay so they're basically Jeff John's version of what would what Harley Quinn and the Joker would be like but in reality that's not the case that when it comes to the Joker himself he's just an insane man depending on what origin you're reading either it's tragic or is just kind of how things felt now the fact that Joker has a Batman it's kind of somebody to notice here of course we saw that play out in the in Alaska in the last video that we did in the last story so it's not like it's it just kind of came out of nowhere but it's not like he's he's just like oh we got to take him and torture him what we got to do all these crazy things he's like yep I got Batman business as usual like that's kind of how it feels because what this is Jeff Jones doing is saying yeah Joker's got Batman and that's a big deal but there's much bigger deals coming down the line namely Superman and document Hatton so it's it's like the one thing everybody's excited for but from here we basically end up running into a handful of henchmen basically of mr. fruits now when the Joker comes across these guys we end up finding out that Mr Freeze is kind of vanished now we'll find out where he went to but they're like Mr Freeze is kind of vanished like we don't really know where you went to we went off the grid he's off the radar and so the Joker's response is well then join my crew now it's one of these things where if the Joker comes across your path and he extends you an invitation to join his crew it's not really an invitation you can turn down now at this point we switch back to the past of marionette you know with her her father essentially you know running this shop called maze glass and it's kind of interesting because what what happened there's another kid across the street whose family runs another store themselves now of course this guy is as most of you guys have probably guessed is essentially mine like he's the guy that will grow up to become mine but it's kind of cool because marionette and like immediately takes a liking to but the problem is that this kid doesn't really talk he doesn't really say anything and he's actually kind of a standby like all these puppets and all these things that are there so again this is kind of jumping back and forth they're sort of switching back between the origin of mine and marionette and jumping back to the current moment but one thing to also keep in mind here is that mime and marionette weren't really crazy they're just kind of out doing their own thing and they basically play up again that is in relation to their characters of course marionette as we know took up the mantle because she her father was uh was a you know was a puppet guy and you know mime doesn't really talk so we don't like the roles they play reflect the lives they've led but they've never encountered anyone like the Joker before because rumored mom and marionette are basically displaced from the from the watchman universe quote-unquote and so they're used to more like grounded people like people who were villains but are really more of like fly-by-night villains they're morally more you know it's kind of goofy or ah they just sort of do things you know like if a crazy person decided to dress up as like a as a gladiator decide they want to ride a sort like that's the kind of villain that they're used to they're not used to someone like the Joker the Joker is so chaotic the Joker is so unpredictable it makes it it makes it crazy and when they options give it like hey do you guys want to join my thing to Joker's like no no mom and Mary never like no no we're not going to but at the same time they're also pretty intense because they basically escape the Joker's scheme is by like poking out the eyes of one of the of one of the henchmen with marionette decapitating the other so it's not like they're helpless right it's not like oh wow this is a crazy situation but I don't know how to deal with this not at all the issue here is that when the Joker really really comes with a joker takes out one of his own guys that's really what kind of baffles mom and marionette to a degree and even baffles the henchman of of mr. freeze because for the most part is kind of be expected for us as the reader but if your mom and marionette is just kind of like this is a little weird but the more they stay together the more different they are the more similarities they find they have between the other but the fact remains here jumping back to the past of of marionette they're really sort of coming together moment of marioneta and mine comes in the fact that marionettes basically being taunted by a handful of bullies and so you know they they literally like string her up and they hold her in place and just start beating the crap out of her when she starts to fight back and so of course here comes mine cracks the bottle over the head of one of them and then just starts beating him with a broken beer bottle now of course as we know bullies don't get second chances and so this literally leads to marionette just like chasing this girl down like when she flees for her life you know if she chases her down it starts bubbling the heck out of her she tries to apologize and then in turn my Mary and that's like do you have another bottle so we can help this girl finish with all of her living and so it is I mean it's it's like it's pretty intense but here's one of the other things to bear in mind too even at a young age they're moving towards a direction where it's just the two of us that's really kind of the the road they're going in and so it's kind of cool because what is up happening is neo following the Joker we end up finding out that essentially happened the reason why mr. Frese vanish is because all the villains of DCF have essentially located in one place or at least the most notable villains so you have like Hector ham and basically the earth-based villains Hector ham and the penguin two-face leo all these different guys but they're all basically being led by the Riddler The Riddler basically says like we're all coming together to form our own secret society of super villains or legion of legion of doom or whatever it is that you want to call it but it's basically geoff johns way of saying like this old formation of the villains banding together you know against like this superhero community is gonna return it's gonna come back but notice there's kind of a veritable who's who here like for example you have dr. sivana now of course we know Sivan is gonna be here because of the fact that Shazam is coming back but you've also got like you know Captain cold you've got boomerang here's something else to that I don't believe has been introduced yet in the mainline DC Comics you've got the judge of Alice where you have the court of owls and then you've got like the monarchy of owls whatever in the world is called now you've got the judge of owls which is basically though the one person who's in charge of like all the owls of the Batman mythos that exists out there in in the world so it's kind of cool to see that expanded but then you also see them hitting at typhoon now typhoons a character has been around for a long long time so he's not really like a rework of dr. Manhattan but here's a funny thing he could be and the reason why I say that is I mean the clueless the clearest similarity between the two is the color of their skin the fact that they're both blue but in truth David Drake made his debut back in flash number 294 way back in the day so again he's been around for a very very very long time his powers just weather manipulation he's mostly been a flash villain and his powers been confined in a smaller scale he's never really been like a major player but in reality it wouldn't be that hard for dr. Manhattan to just like take out the original typhoon dress up a sly foon and then go into the main DC Universe the question is why like why would dr. Manhattan do that which is why it's really not a believable theory but it is kind of a funny idea to sort of toy around with but then from here we basically switch back again to the origin of marionette and this is when we end up finding out that what had basically been happening at this time when she was a little kid is that her father was basically being shaken down by the cops that the cops were crooked you know they were they were coming in and they were saying like you owe us a debt basically like you owe us a try the source of course they also end up dropping the news that this young kid Marco that Marcos bit his mom died she essentially fell down a fire escape and that was really the end of her but again it's it's another one of these things were it's just like they they live a pretty rough life there's a lot of really really shady things going on here not only that kind of jumping back to the to the current moment we end up finding out this is not the first time the Joker's shown up with a Batman trying to get himself into this team which is so Joker it's exactly what Joker would do like from what we're being told previously the Joker hitch shown up with like a prison guard from Arkham Asylum dressed him as the Batman and said I've captured the Batman see you guys can I join your team now it's kind of a funny little thing now of course this leads to a bit of a skirmish between like typhoon and and the rest of the villains because it's just kind of like hey look your typhoon like you really don't need to be here man like you're pretty small-time and then of course in the middle of all this typhoon gets shot in the face and this is when things really pop off because we end up fighting out the person who shot typhoon in the face is the comedian and dude okay so this is this is when things get so awesome because then it's literally a bloodbath he's just firing on everyone like all these different villains he's taking every last one in the mouth now mime starts making his way over to try to take out comedian and marionette immediately calls him back but of course he doesn't necessarily respond and set like gigantic gets in the way of you know comedian and then of course he kind of has to jam out of the way of her onslaught but from there like it's literally taking potshots I mean it's just it's like it's like the punisher rolled into like the hideout of like all the Marvel villains and just starts shooting everybody to pieces that's what the comedian's doing right now like he literally shows up in this place and just starts taking all of them out but like most people here just kind of react the way you would expect like they just kind of scatter but like for most people they don't really know what's going on they're responsive a marionette is we have to get out of here this is the comedian he will kill assault but notice this where we as the reader would look at this and we would think that initially the Joker has more in common with mom and marionette than anybody else the Joker actually has more in common with the comedian that sure the comedian is a vigilante but it's like mime and marionette and the comedian both represent different sides of the Joker but it's basically like it's him just as a comedian like hey look I'm gonna kill you all so like you can run if you want to but I will find you I'll track you down and then I'll then I'll take you out so it's one of these crazy things because it's like it's like this is exactly how we would expect the comedian's arrival to unfold in the this whole landscape of DC comics and so again switching back to this last you know this this next little tidbit of marionettes origin the cops show up again but the issue is that the father basically stands up and says I can't let you guys shake me down anymore especially not in front of my daughter because what she's gonna do is she's gonna grow up believing give people whatever they want and life will be easier which is a terrible way to live the issue it is the response to this is they grab they grab marionette they bring around and they're like look you can us what we want or we will kill your daughter what we in defining out is that the this guy you know that the father is essentially is kind of like he's he's got a an actual financial tithe he has to pay money that has to be given which is currently hidden inside the night owl adult which of course you know they crack it open they take the money out and that's that you know they end up leaving that's where he stores you know the extra cash and so what ends up happening here is it's this situation where you know she goes and after this whole scenario she basically goes and ends up hanging out with Marcos you know it starts to you know poking around asking questions can you really not talk like what more the ones going on she returns back to the shop you know after you know the next day or so only to find that her father hung himself and this is when things get really really crazy because now it's just her she's alone there's no one else there this is all that's left because her father leaves a note behind that says look you know then they would have never stopped coming it's one of these things if you give an inch you give a mile you given to them the first time and they'll keep coming back the only way to make them stop is to get rid of them but in this instance I'm leaving you behind because now you can go out and you can make your own you make your own life and so in response to this where he says empty the till take the money and leave when the cops show up to collect their tithe she stabs one of them in the neck now where the other one starts to panic this is when like mine runs in bites the other one he offers himself as a distraction of sorts and then like literally marionette comes running in with basically with a with a marionette wire and strangles the guy to death so like right off the bat like it's basically just the two of us worthy like we're the only two in the world that we can count on this is it it's essentially like the fallout from this whole situation than with from their initial origin this sort of comes home to roost when they have this conversation because when they get back to their safe house she's like you you can't leave me like that like if I have if I don't have you I don't have anybody else like this is it because we end up finding out that following this they made their way on the street the best way they could they literally did what they had to do in order to make ends meet so it's it's one of these things worse like like look it's just us like we have to stick together we're the only real connection the two of us have and we have to go find our baby together so it's a pretty important moment and it really gives a lot of depth to the character now from there the comedian comes like tracked him down the comedian lives up to his word he's like I will find you literally track them down and says you guys can come with me and you guys can show me where Ozymandias is or I can kill one of you and make the other show me of course in the midst of all this the comedian's essentially knocked out from behind and we end up finding the Joker was the one who did it and so of course the Joker steals the comedian's button and it's just kind of like well I'm curious about this dr. Manhattan look what's the deal with this dr. Manhattan like we should go find dr. Manhattan and this is awesome because what it means is the Joker will meet dr. Manhattan okay so we are picking up with Doomsday Clock number seven and this is actually kind of an interesting scenario here because what Geoff Johns does in this story is he messes with us he really kind of toys us a little bit and it's actually pretty cool it's kind of cool to see him CMS with things a bit so what this does is this picks up with the Green Lantern of Allen Scott now for those of you guys who don't know of course this is really kind of where we left off in the last Doomsday Clock story and Geoff Johns picking up with this actually offers some pretty intriguing things so the first thing I want to do here is I want to talk about something called the Justice Society of America back in the 1940s when you had like Gardner Fox and those guys who were really kind of creating you know DC characters and teams the Justice Society of America was the first team that DC had they were the predecessors to the Justice League it's one of the big misconceptions that a lot of non comic book readers have is that the Justice League was the first big team not at all the JSA were really like small-time characters you had like you know the the original flash Jay Garrick the original Green Lantern Alan Scott Hawkman different people like that I think the spectre was part of it at one point maybe was dr. fate and then you got into 1960 with Justice League which gave us kind of like the second iteration of the JSA but with a more popular team now because of the fact that the original JSA for the 1940s in real time the original JSA existed on earth too which was a different universe when DC got rid of the multiverse and what they did is they came back and they said actually the JSA were world war two superheroes and so by the time Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman and Aquaman by the time they'd risen to prominence and became superheroes in the modern era the JSA had basically retired now DC tried to come back and change that a little bit but Geoff Johns is sort of bringing that back in and what he's doing here is he's really kind of does it by way of dr. Manhattan talking to us and it's kind of a big deal with the original Green Lantern of Allen Scott it wasn't actually a Green Lantern per se I mean it was insofar as it was a red I'm sorry a green meteor the crash into Earth and it was kind of a lamp that was turned into a lantern but it wasn't until after a really you know much later on in DC Comics that they actually rolled Alan Scott over into quote-unquote the Green Lantern Corps originally his Green Lantern ring was totally separate from all the other Green Lantern's that existed out there and so with regards to this you got you know Jeff John's kind of runs through the origin which is pretty straight forward but he says small things now here's a anything about this is that dr. Manhattan says this in a wage where it doesn't happen in a linear fashion and that's one thing to keep in mind right like he doesn't say like in in nineteen forty this happened and in nineteen fifty this happened and in nineteen sixty that happened he says like in nineteen forty this happened and then in nineteen sixty this happened and then in nineteen fifty that happened dr. Manhattan does not see time linearly dr. Manhattan sees everything all at once he sees the whole span of time happening all at one time the difference here is that he can't travel back and forth through time he can only see it and so because of this it's really interesting here because one of the things he says is that we're in the originally when Alan Scott was a railroad engineer and had come across the Green Lantern they the actual answered itself what dr. Manhattan did is he moved it so that Alan Scott never came across it and that's kind of a big deal because what this means is that because dr. Manhattan cannot travel a travel through time but because dr. Manhattan affected the ability for Alan Scott to become the Green Lantern it means dr. Manhattan had to have been there in that moment when that happened and so it's kind of interesting here because this this seems to go and seems to really indicate the dr. Manhattan was responsible for the creation of the DC Universe but what geoff johns is gonna do here in a little bit is kind of say actually he's not and that's that's kind of the funny thing about this and so what we end up doing here is picking up with like saturn girl and with Johnny Thunder and with Rorschach and and with Ozymandias again they're all basically trying to track down dr. Manhattan that's the real big thing that they're looking for here and it's kind of an interesting scenario because what we've also been seeing kind of going on in the background is this scenario worse like the Superman conspiracy right they're like superheroes are engineered by the federal government which is why so many superheroes operate inside the United States because it's kind of a government mandated initiative and and so on and so forth now the other thing about this is that in the original Watchmen comics what you had was a character called Bubastis that was created by created by Ozymandias it was just kind of like his attempt to create life more or less but following the death of that original Bubastis and his attempt to like destroy dr. Manhattan what ended up happening is that awesome Andy has created a new version but instead of this just being being Bubastis what it is it's really like a homing beacon it's a device that would allow him to essentially track down dr. Manhattan and so like like a radar or like a you know a radar that might be prouder and louder or at a faster frequency as an object gets closer to it what this version of Bubastis does is it kind of lights up a little bit more now the other part of this is it also picks up with a comedian remember that also happened as well and it's kind of cool to see geoff johns do this where brings in the comedian the comedian assaults like a large majority of the various villains out of Gotham and then when like Rorschach and everybody flees you kind of see what comedian was doing in the background by way of like the news or something along those lines and so switching directly over to comedian himself again he's been taken by the Joker and it's kind of cool to see this because at the outset you would think the comedian would have a lot in common with the Joker - insanity in the sense of the comedian's very Punisher like in terms of how he functions or I guess maybe if the Punisher is more like the comedian in terms of how he functions but the fact remains the Joker is absolutely insane and the comedian picks up on that insanity almost immediately and it's just like let me out of here getting you let me out of here let me go back and do my thing you know comedians desire you know Eddie Eddie Blake's desire just kind of get out of there is first and foremost but he doesn't function like a crazy person here and remember that's the nature of the comedian the comedian doesn't have the name because he's a spinoff of the Joker he has the name because in his mind but he's not really a tried and true nihilist he just kind of looks at the nature of humanity and says the only thing you can do is laugh about it and so there are some similarities between himself and the Joker in that regard he just lacks the kind of extreme insanity narcissism and borderline multiple personality disorder that the Joker has and so it's kind of interesting but in the middle of all this they're suddenly met by the arrival of Batman who's basically been tracking the comedian now of course this leads to Batman basically taking them out only for mime to basically fire off you know one of his invisible guns and seemingly take Batman by surprise now again it doesn't really kill him but it is kind of cool to see Batman facing off against you know these these characters monta marionette characters that he's never seen before but still when they when they finally secure the Green Lantern of Allen Scott what ends up happening is that Ozymandias basically begins to bring the two together and it's one of these things were like they're all kind of like in a mad dash to the same location because the cat's leading them to a place and then you have Ozymandias following the cat and of course what we end up finding out here is that where the Joker's going insane and Batman's facing them all the cat has been leading Ozymandias to the comedian and the reason why is because the cat picks up on these sort of residues more or less that better that are there that are left by dr. Manhattan and so what geoff johns kind of does is in a roundabout way he indicates that in some former fashion dr. Mann had brought Eddie Blake back that either he brought him back to life or something along those lines we're not entirely sure when you end up having like Ozymandias sort of bringing the cat and then bringing the the lantern together and all those different things what is up happening is you suddenly have you know essentially dr. Manhattan manifests himself and it's kind of crazy because the way that Jeff Jones does is is it almost seemed for an instant that like dr. Manhattan was pretending to be the comedian but then of course when Manhattan's there you have the comedian sitting in a chair so of course that wasn't really the case but it's kind of crazy because man had you know the the response of Ozymandias as we need to talk now at the outset Batman's responses I know who you are and it had been kind of cool to see a little more of an interaction between the two of them but again Jeff Jones is a slow build he's a slow burn when it comes to writing and so you're never really gonna see like a four-issue arc where just things just pop off if given the opportunity Jeff John seems to always deviate towards telling a longer story that's more thought-out that has a lot more dialogue and a lot more plot building to it which is one of the things that makes him an excellent writer you know one of the best comic book writers to ever live and so dr. Manhattan grabs them all and just kind of whisks them away you know out to what seems like the middle of nowhere and the responses let's talk let's see what it is that you have to say and we're awesome and 'ya says look you know the the actual Watchmen world is in shambles you have to come back and fix things dr. Manhattan response is no I'm not going to and this is where Jeff John's kind of says that Manhattan didn't really create the DC universe or at least it seems to be that case when he says I left that world for a reason and I came to this world and so it you know the the the statement really seems to indicate dr. Manhattan came to the DC universe after the DC universe had already come into existence now we don't know how early he got here dr. Manhattan kind of sees time and a nonlinear way and so where we would look at it from the perspective of well dr. Mann dr. Manhattan got here like 60 years ago from his perspective he was just here and so the way he talks here that's really kind of the tools and the clues that geoff johns leaves to us to determine whether or not manhattan created everything and saying things like i was at this point in time i saw these things take place it all kind of seems as though dr. Manhattan got here before superheroes came into existence but after the a after the formation of the DC Universe it was kind of a funny thing because when he starts talking to marionette when the statements made by chose to spare you not because I thought you were a great person who you deserved it but because you were pregnant and I saw what your child would go on to do we know that from her origin story in the earlier videos and so when the question is asked well you know what's my child gonna do Manhattan responds by saying well which one and then all that's right you know you don't see time the same way I do you're pregnant right now that was kind of interesting the way that John's writes the character Manhattan he does a great job doing it but it's very very difficult for writers to mirror the style of another righter identical and when you look at the old alan moore writing of the Watchmen the way he wrote manhattan was very disconnected but when you look at manhattan here there's a hint of anger it seems like he's kind of irritated or or angry with people the other half of this is that you end up having like Rorschach who's talking about you know Ozymandias and saying Ozymandias has cancer and manhattan says no he doesn't you know and that's when Ozymandias drops the drops his big truth bomb and says no i never had cancer when he's talking to Reggie the new Rorschach he says no I never had cancer I said that because I needed you and this is really really really important at the outset it just kind of seems like man what a dick move but this is insanely important because what this means is that it means Ozymandias is just as manipulative as he ever was that he saw the opportunity to use Reggie to use Rorschach for his own ends and took it and so it means that like in in reality Ozymandias hasn't changed at all he's the same person that we saw in the old Watchmen comics when he thought he was saving the world and and set this monster loose in the city of New York and he's still that same person and dr. Manhattan sees that and says you're the same person you ever worked you know you are coming here asking me to save a world that you couldn't save why would I do that it's a laboring beast gasping for breath let that world die and so when you end up having Reggie kind of freaking out on on Ozymandias it's interesting because what Ozymandias says is it's like you live up to your namesake that you are really a Rorschach painting you are a reflection of what you wish to see and what he says is what you've wanted to see was that your father in Rorschach we're friends what you wanted to see was that your father was championing Rorschach's caused and that you were gonna pick this up as well the reality of the situation is that war Shaq destroyed everything your father stood for he destroyed your father's desire to live a beautiful life he left him as a fractured broken man you didn't see that because you didn't want to see that and it's kind of a crazy scenario because when you think about that it's it's kind of mind-boggling they're like Ozymandias makes these incredible these incredible observations but then you have Manhattan who sort of goes back to the old into the watchman's stories you know where he's like you know this time is is like a time is coming when I can't see past what happens next I can't see the future beyond this particular point in time and he doesn't really tell us right off the bat why that is it's just for some reason he can't see what's coming later on down the line and so it seems as though some bigger threat either from Manhattan or that will work through Manhattan kind of seems to be an indication here and it's kind of crazy you know when he starts musing about these things that he's seen how he's for how he perceives time how all this stuff works it really sort of hits home again so when you end up having you know him basically walking away and just saying I'm done and then just leaving and then sending everybody back things just kind of go awry after that people sort of regained their bearings and then everything just pops off you have Batman and Joker who were dealing with Rorschach beating the crap out of Oz manious you've got mana marionette who take their leave you got all kinds of crazy stuff happening here and so the Joker of course being as it being as insane as he ever was when you end up getting out there to to Johnny Thunder when you get up end up getting out there to Saturn girl when I was a man dia shows back up he's been beat to pieces and so it's just like what in the world is going on but he starts hiding his thoughts from Saturn girl so she can't read his mind just different things like that and of course he turns against her and says I have a plan I'm going to fix everything when he throws out Johnny Thunder when he throws out Saturn girl he's like I'm gonna fix everything I'm gonna solve the problem of everything and it's kind of crazy because following this we pick back up again with dr. Manhattan and what he says that it what he says is that this thing that happens in a one-month period basically it's the arrival of Superman and for some reason Superman is outrageously pissed and of course this comes by way of Reggie sending off information to Lois Lane so that's how we end up getting Superman into the mix but the idea is that Superman for some reason gets it's so astronomically pissed off that he shows up here he basically goes to punch dr. Manhattan and then everything goes black and what Manhattan can't figure out here and this is what's so intriguing what Manhattan cannot figure out here is if everything goes black because Superman destroys him with a single punch or if everything goes black because he destroys Superman and everything else and so Jeff Jones leaves it so ambiguous because if I'm if I'm a betting man I would bet all the money in my pockets to all the money in your pockets which is zero for me I don't know about you most likely what's going to happen is if Superman fought dr. Manhattan Superman probably wouldn't win you're talking about a guy who can control the atomic structure of matter against a guy who can just punch really hard and so when you have those things kind of thrown together it's really kind of an obvious choice on who's gonna win but we don't know what state Superman will be in we don't know if you'll have automated powers we don't know if Geoff Johns is gonna amp him up to a higher level than we've ever seen him before it'll if it'll be one of those things where Geoff Johns has Superman pull out all the mental blocks so he's running on 100% power and it's just astronomically insane in terms of what he can do we don't really know okay so getting into Doomsday Clock kana this is this is kind of a slow bill but it is really starting to pick up we've got about four more issues and at the end of this is like something really really big happens which is kind of cool but this initially picked up with Lois Lane and Clark in inside the now the way the Jeff John start this the source is really kind of like Lois Lane getting yelled out you know for a story and nothing really crazy nothing bonkers from what we would normally expect to see with regards to what goes on in the Daily Planet between Lois Lane Perry White Clark Kent you know the various reporters but in the middle of all this we end up finding out the firestorm Ronnie Raymond is in Russia fighting his arch-nemesis hos are now the reason why this matters is because this ties in to the Superman theory of those guys who were who are kind of jumping into this in Doomsday Clock one of the things that Jeff Charles is established is that there's this theory that's circulating around the world very very fast that various metahumans are basically american-made that most metahumans 90% of them in fact exist inside the United States and so the argument is the United States government is creating metahumans now for the most part this isn't really the case I mean various characters like killer frost or a byproduct of experiments gone wrong but for the most part most metahumans don't seem to be like part of a government conspiracy or anything like that it just happens to be them in some form of fashion they're tied in to some government project or something like that but we know Superman is from a different planet we know that that people like Ronnie Raymond or the result of an experiment gone wrong we know that that that these characters are not tied into the Superman theory and Ronnie Raymond has publicly denounced this time and time again but really kind of like leads the battle directly against Russia and the reason why is because what the Russian government's been doing is implementing metahuman laws and what this basically means is that babies and various people are being tested for a metahuman gene and if they test positive they're being taken into custody and no real questions are being asked at the other half of this is that Russia has been drumming up anti metahuman hysteria really like feeding on the fear of its own people and so the result of this is that the Russian people are very much against metahumans so when Ronnie Raymond shows up they immediately turn against him and the result is that when he's essentially knocked down by pose art he's surrounded by all these various you know people protestors so on and so forth and the results that he kind of lashes out and turns them all to glass now for the character of Ronnie this can be brought about by a couple different explanations two main explanations the first is that is a byproduct of his ability to transmute matter which is the most likely explanation here the other part of this could just be extreme heat that is literally he let off such an astronomical amount of heat that these folks all turned to glass now in truth you're talking about something that you're also going to be equivalent to a nuclear explosion so the fact that there are still like building standing and the entire place is not totally incinerated is an indication that of course it's just the transmutation of matter but what this does is to everyone watching it makes it look like Ronnie Raymond killed all these people they're firestorm in American superhero flew to Russia and then killed all these various people it gives the Russian arguments credence is what it does so of course this leads to Ronnie Raymond flee now what we end up having a Superman who's watching the entire thing unfold who leaves a Daily Planet and travels to conduct and this is kind of a cool a cool moment here now for the character of Black Adam because what I'm about to say next I want to go ahead and kind of you know kind of instill this in you guys black out has been around since 1945 he's been around for a very very long time the black Adam and magneto are very very similar in this regard the reason why I set why state when Black Adam would show up is because somebody would be half listening and just be like he's nothing like magneto magneto came way after black out of here what are you talking about this of course he did I know he did but the fact remains with Black Adam and magneto they're very very similar in this regard when it comes to when it comes to Black Adam while he is contentedly considered a villain it's really only one of these things where like he'll fight against you if there's a legitimate threat to conduct that's where his loyalties lie do not attack him he will not attack you not only that what what Black Adam had basically done was open the doors of conduct to those individuals who were looking to find an escape from general society because with a Superman theory being so popular what this means is that a lot of people are siding against it like a lot of people are citing against metahumans and with them siding against metahumans it's given metahumans reason to fear for their lives and so finding some place to flee conduct was opened up as a safe refuge of source now here's the other important thing to Lois Lane had basically received this package you know they kind of came out of nowhere with a USB Drive and when she plugged it in this USB Drive contains information about the Justice Society of America and Lois Lane has no idea who that is now we know this because with what's going on what we've seen so far dr. Manhattan to change things right like dr. Manhattan and move the lantern out of the way so Alan Scott never became the Green Lantern in fact died before that could happen we know things like like Johnny Thunder was you know like he was a hero at one point he's basically largely been forgotten the Justice Society of America has long since been forgotten by people and is basically Geoff Johns and DC's way of explaining why we haven't seen them since a new 52 I mean we got earth too but that's the different that's a whole different version of Heroes this is a different version of Jay Garrick is a different version of Superman the whole nine yards the JSA as we know them which is to say the team that people remember from before the new 52 back during the 90s during the 80s and way before the 80s is so on and so forth that teams been gone for a long time and so while they are making their return what this does is it establishes the JSA did exist which means the question becomes if they existed and there's there's actual documented evidence of their existence then why doesn't anyone remember that why don't people like Hawkman remember being part of the JSA because Hawkman still a lot so why don't why don't they remember why does it remember being part of the JSA why are those memories gone now we can largely assume that feeds into like the 10 years lost from everyone but unless the JSA only existed during those 10 years did we have to believe they just said beforehand which means that they've been wiped away from the minds of everyone something that seemingly only dr. Manhattan would really be able to pull off and so again it's really kind of thickening the plot basically bringing back a lot of these older characters establishing who they are what they're about but also saying like they were here once so where are they now and so again we don't care just like Jay Garrick is stuck inside the Speed Force we know that like Alan Scott doesn't exist we know different things like that but like for the other members who were out there the other characters you know who are who are part of this whole thing you know where are they our man and and so on and so forth you know so Oh what is up going on here if Superman goes to locate Ronnie Raymond only to find out that his powers are basically running amuck to a degree they're really kind of going a little bit bonkers and where Superman's able to kind of talk Ronnie Raymond down and have him work alongside professor Stein and basically transmit this kid back to his normal human form after having been turned to glass this kind of feeds into the nature of Superman's character now this is very very important because when it comes to Superman and DC Comics he's not so much a father figure for the various superheroes so much as he is kind of like the penultimate hero right like the leader of it all the kind of the guy who kind of inspired everybody else to become a hero as one of the cures they kind of look up to but this is Geoff Johns establishing the nature of Superman kind of reminding us where Superman's about because this would probably become important later on we end up inevitably having the fight between Superman and dr. Manhattan and so it's kind of a cool little thing here because when this kid gets changed back what it does is it sets in motion the idea that Ronnie Raymond can set everybody else back to normal back in Russia and so where he ends up travelling back there of course Superman arrives first and this is a very important thing because when Superman shows up here our initial inclination might be well you got Vladimir Putin who's existing over the current guy in in in Russia you know when in the show and and then it's like okay Superman shows up well clear they're gonna go in to attack him no they're not and that's a very important thing because Superman is a hero who's beyond reproach you know his stance where he resides that's that is beyond contestation everyone knows Superman is a protector of earth he's a savior of Earth no one questions his loyalty no one questions his role he is definitively a good guy and when he shows up here and the other members of the superhero community in Russia intend to attack Superman Vladimir Putin steps in and says absolutely not Superman's a good guy Superman is definitively a good guy but with Superman showing up what he basically does is say look the whole incident was Robert Ronnie Raymond with firestorm this is an accident it's one that can be undone and when he makes this statement it is okay well then let's see what the guy has to say now the funny thing about this is that Batman's watching the whole event unfolding Batman as he's talking to Superman his response is do not pick Assad do not make a definitive declaration and that's the important thing to bear in mind here this whole thing is called the Superman theory for a reason that it all hinges on the idea that it all started with Superman right like Superman was the first hero first superhero to operate out of you know beta seemingly operate out of earth or at least the most popular to operate out of out of the United States and so the result is that it all kind of centers around him for him to make a declarative statement does Superman theory is false the Superman theory is wrong the demonization of metahumans is wrong is to pick Assad is to basically say anyone who is in favor of the Superman theory is incorrect the problem is they don't have enough information here and that's why Batman really takes his stance and says do not pick a side because you could be wrong and if you're wrong you're gonna have egg on your face and if you're wrong people are gonna look you they're gonna point the finger as they see it even Superman doesn't really know what's going on but he's he's clueless like the government's just that secretive this that dark and manipulative but Batman keeps harping on him do not pick a side do not pick a side do not pick a side Ronnie Raymond shows up and says look I can fix everyone I can set everything back to normal one of the soldiers pulls the trigger fires a shot and Ronnie you know you know how Superman kind of jumps in the way protects him but Ronnie Raymond is attacked by pose art and then in the middle of it it really all seems to pop off and that's why this whole thing has one of the reasons why Batman said do not pick a side because this will and this will inevitably lead to a conflict and if it does then it will be spun news companies exist to sell themselves facts be damned they just to sell themselves by any means necessary and they'll suspend the story however they have to in order to sell themselves and so that's why this this whole thing is a huge crapshoot because the way this looks is Ronnie Raymond basically killed a whole bunch of people by turning him into glass Superman shows up and says not only is right this can this be reversed is it you know are you guys wrong for demonizing Ronnie Raymond the Superman Theory's false Ronnie Raymond shows up all hell breaks loose Superman takes sides against the Russians it looks like the United States government is acting against the Russian government it looks like metahumans are trying to destroy people who disagree with him that's how it appears and in this instance Ronnie Raymond begins to basically start snapping Randy because it's kind of loses mind began basically powering up letting off this energy and what is up having his Batman charms in as a Superman you have to stop energy levels are spiking Superman's idea is that Ronnie Raymond is powering up and Ronnie Marion is about to destroy everything and the response of Batman is it's not Ronnie Raymond and that's what we'll remember life and everything's gone seemingly dr. Manhattan has stepped in now we don't know what role document Hatton's taking you all we know is that at this moment dr. Manhattan has chosen to make his move and we have to wait until February to find out which sucks let me tell y'all read a story that was so good you want to punch a hole in the wall that's exactly what this is do if God will write in comic books right now is what it will look like right now okay so this story picks up in the year 3000 and 19 and dr. manhattan's just like okay so basically like the earth is gonna be threatened and like a guy you know tries to protect it and basically dies of the process but the crazy thing is like energy of this guy lets off basically like Suns arene careening back through time right and then dr. Manhattan's going through and he's like okay so like it's basically like the the cascading effects right like he's like okay this guy exists because of the fact that Alan Scott exists right but like I move the lantern out of the way Alan Scott never became the original Green Lantern which meant that Alan Scott never founded the original JSA which made like this Legion of super-heroes never existed like is literally just kind of analyzing the effects of his own actions but remember because a reason is going on dr. Manhattan cannot see the end of all things and he doesn't know if that's because of the fact that he gets killed by Superman or dr. Manhattan destroys everything in reality so it's kind of the coolest thing and so remember this comes after firestorm had basic like let off this massive explosion in Russia which it was kind of tricked into more or less and then in turn like the world kind of turning against superheroes more so than they already were because those guys who were just kind of catching up with those you guys haven't read this the Superman conspiracy is the on running theme and Doomsday Clock the idea that like there's this conspiracy running around dead like all superheroes or almost all superheroes were created by America by the American government and so with the explosion that happened in Russia and all the other superheroes basically kind of banding together what we end up finding out here is that like everyone has come together and when I say everyone I mean like everyone like the Justice League Odyssey team the Justice League of America like all the magic wielders all the super all the members of the Superman family like everyone is here and everybody's trying to figure out what the heck is going on and so it's kind of it's it's it's amazing here because while all that happens like you literally have like dr. Manhattan who's just kind of musing to himself he knows exactly what's gonna take place but he's just kind of musing to himself with like everything that's going on with regards to like earth and the superheroes and so on and so forth so detached and not really concerned about anything that's going on it's just kind of there like I wonder what'll happen next and really just kind of concerned about like why he can't see the future and it's kind of nuts because like while all that goes on of course Superman's recovering Batman recovering they were both in like the immediate vicinity of the explosion but then like Lois Lane goes running to his side right and like this really was kind of going on is like all these themes are effectively coming to a head but that you've got the President of the United States being addressed by like his cabinet basically being told because the explosion in Russia by firestorm fire storms of metahuman the Superman II conspiracy is already running strong people already distrust superhumans you have to do the only thing you can do if you want to keep the White House they're basically kind of asking him do you want to be political or do you want to be moral you can't be both and so the president chooses or at least it seems like he chooses to be political their argument the argument of this cabinet is you have to stand against metahumans because that's what the general public wants and at the end of the day you're a servant of the people you have to do what the people want you to do that people want you to basically enact or at least present legislation to Congress that forces metahumans to reveal their identities that basically removes the ability for people to have mass it's Watchmen all over again and it's so cool here because then in turn you basically have like Bruce Wayne waking up inside Wayne Manor and you know force like dread you know dressing Alfred and so on and so forth all these things are kind of happening at like a really really fast clip and one of the things people tend to forget and somebody actually made a comment about this on Twitter which is true that one of the things people tend to forget about the Watchmen is that it was it was a slow build right like it was like the slowest story ever until you get to the second act and then things pop off but basically what Batman essentially says here like address like talking to Alfred is like what's going on because the humanity has taken all the all the various superheroes who are essentially like traveling out to Mars because that's basically what's happening like what Batman explains here is that like after the whole event with firestorm did like the source of energy that seemed to basically cause firestorm to explode or at least was deduced to believe to cause fire storm to explode is coming from Mars and that's where all the superheroes are going they're all going to confront dr. Manhattan and so with Batman and Superman being the only two left behind on earth alongside Wonder Woman and I guess Green Arrow is that what's what's basically going on is he's like look I don't know if that energy signature coming from Mars is the one that actually caused all this I don't know if that's what's really going on there is a massive energy signature out there and it does warrant being investigated but like I think the Justice League is getting played and it's kind of crazy because that it that in turn basically leaves the entire earth vacated it leaves the entire earth empty and so in in response to this like Batman's like we need to send a message off to them so it's kind of cool to see this because when this happens we kind of transition over to like everybody but Batman Superman and like Wonder Woman but like when they arrive on Mars it's all the Green Lantern's it's it's the whole nine yard is the whole kit and caboodle and this is awesome thing because while that happens you've got Lois Lane standing over like the hospitalized body of Superman in the Hall of Justice and it's just this voice that comes out of nowhere that says hello Lois and it's Lex Luthor and it's like okay so like Lex Luthor's making a move now that was my thought my thought was like okay so Lex Luthor is basically gonna like kill Superman now now he's in a super weakened state and Lois Lois Lane's like you don't have a chance you're not pulling this off it's crazy I mean like Ronnie Raymond firestorm is still alive they're in separate bodies they kind of have to merge in order to pull off whatever it is that they want to pull off but still like Ronnie Raymond kind of a CG Martin Stein and say look like we have to reform his firestorm we're almost like a reality where were we can Rima T realize matters like there's almost no limit to our power whatsoever like we have to basically work together here the Green Lantern's create like this giant field around Mars like all these steps are being taken by all these different these different individuals here to like safeguard themselves is this huge buildup everybody's preparing for like a massive battle against like this one guy but the first one to speak up and talk is John Jones well we're all like hey who are you and what are you doing why you here like my hens can like I've got stuff to do but as basically kind of his response is like hey man like you know look guys like it's cool you're here but like I've got bigger fish to fry besides you and that's that's what's that's what's so interesting about that is how like dismissive dr. Manhattan is of like Dean of the veritable who's who because everyone is here everyone but the villains are here like every single superhero on earth is here and like dr. Manhattan is just dismissive and we find out why quick fast and in a hurry it's so cool because Guy Gardner the Green Lantern steps up and it's just like okay hey look man here's the rub it seems like you've done some pretty shady things so before before you make a move I want you to understand what it is you're getting into we've crushed all kinds of people darkside the anti-monitor are multiversal threat some evil versions of Batman evil versions of Superman we've beat the Sinestro Corps we've beat doomsday we beat all those all those guys dr. Manhattan addresses John Jonah says the reason why he's worried about me is because he's worried about this one vision he can get from me which is my final view of Superman like Superman racing towards me and trying to kill me and so it's kind of nuts because like as things go on like Supergirl responds she's like so you think Superman's gonna kill you so you want to kill him first like firestorm freaks out because he thinks dr. Manhattan's been screwing with him and caused him to blow up the guy gardener just wants to fight some stuff so he's like okay come on let's do this he punches dr. Manhattan knocks him out and the Manhattan vanishes reappears behind him and destroys his ring and it's like the coolest thing because he's like let me remind you of your place in the bigger picture he's just like bad I like like just crazy like I'm curious this ring that you way or has power inside of it and while I'm not there with like the slightest bit worried about it I am curious about it it's so like let's just take it and it's just like this is interesting like I know she's kind of like I found it difficult to affect but here's the funny thing about this right like it's not dr. Manhattan in try hard mode this dr. Manhattan in like laid-back mode let's just casually destroy some things and then like all the magic wielders bust out he's just kind of like this is interesting you guys think you're wielding magic because you're not really wielding magic there's no real magic here there's just you basically using reality warping on a small scale but only able to control what's left of the universe you guys are able to kill you guys are able to manipulate the leftovers of the universe just like you're the leftovers of the superhero community in some mad trash in one fell swoop he's just like boom and just and just since I'm all flying these guys were ill-equipped to deal with the power of dr. Manhattan that's exactly what this is now kind of switching back over to to Lex Luthor for a second so he brings something up here he basically says like I'm the one who gave you all the footage of like the heroes who are supposed to exist like the JSA that was supposed to exist I'm the one who leaked it all to you all the evidence that I have points to this man the Justice League is basically going after who's essentially like been meddling with the timestream and then he asked your question he says have you ever heard of someone named Wally West now this is big because remember Irish West Barry Allen and hit Wally West Kid Flash they're really the only ones who know but is only like a very small number of people who know about Wally West Lex Luthor is kind of spilling the beans to Lois Lane and basically saying like here's everything that's going on now this is where things get interesting and probably where like the old-school Watchmen fans will get a little pissy but what happens here is like firestorm jumps in goes to attack dr. Manhattan says like you don't know who you're facing off against at Manhattan's like no you don't know who you're facing off against and this is when things get a little strange because what seems to happen here is dr. Manhattan Yanks Ronnie Raymond into the past that's kind of a big caveat here because as I understand it when it comes to dr. Manhattan he moves forward in time at the same rate as everybody else dr. Manhattan cannot travel back and forth through time the thing that dr. Manhattan does as he perceives all moments in time happening at that moment in time right but like today's Wednesday and it's March 6 so for dr. Manhattan today's Wednesday and it's March 6th but is also every day that will come after and every day that came before but tomorrow dr. Manhattan will be in March 7th dr. Manhattan cannot jump back to March 6 from 2018 he can't really like time travel in traditional sense that seems to be the case with his character he doesn't really perceive it in a linear fashion but he cannot travel back and forth through it and so Wakanda seems to be hinting at the idea or at the very least outright stating dr. Manhattan can time travel and what this is designed to do is to kind of play mind games with Ronnie Raymond but at the same time kind of like retail is origin to a degree the idea that instead of Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond kind of bonding together in an accident that it was intentionally done that that it was literally done in a way to where Martin Stein wanted to create a character like this and he needed someone who would most likely bond to him and so ultimately he chose Ronnie Raymond because Ronnie Raymond one reminded Martin Stein of his own son into was a knee a parental figure and what this does is it reshapes everything it literally changes the way that ronnie raymond views himself and views martin stein and almost kind of like sends him on a warpath which he does I mean he literally like freaks out and he ends up attacking dr. Manhattan now this is when things kind of shift back and that's when the perspective that that's really when geoff johns I think kind of clarifies things that were we would look at that initially counter we would say okay so I guess dr. Manhattan can time travel that's not what happened presumably what seems to have happened is that in the blink of an eye dr. Manhattan basically sent them on or at least gave ronnie raymond like a portion of his power and essentially like rowdy raymond saw time and the same way dr. Manhattan does but instead of seeing everything happening at once he basically isolated to a single perspective or a single point in time so in reality they never left the present it's just that how writing remember saw time basically meant that like in his mind's eye he was looking at seven years ago to his own origin how it was that he came into existence and the basis behind his creation and is kind of cool because when Ronnie Raymond attacks like the rest of the Justice were really the rest of the superhero community takes it as their chance to make their move and like the whole battle pops off and like everyone is in this right like all the Green Lantern's Supergirl the entire Shazam family they all basically channeled it into dr. Manhattan this massive explosion goes off and dr. Manhattan basically seems to dock the entire superhero community presumably kills dr. Manhattan and while that goes on like all these different things are happening at the same time like Wonder Woman is making her address to the United Nations you've got like the superhero community that's celebrating the fact that they killed dr. Manhattan the message Batman wanted to send to them to tell them they were being played was like basically it failed to sin and then Wonder Woman's met from nowhere and dr. Manhattan reconstitutes himself and literally in one fell swoop defeats the entirety of the superhero community with a wave of his hand they're all gone and that was kind of solidifying the fact that dr. Manhattan was just playing games it wasn't dr. Manhattan fighting to kill it was dr. Manhattan being curious but like he's not curious anymore be gone and like they're all like they're all out like that's basically it not only that when Wonder Woman's making her address because of the fact that all the superheroes superheroes have left Earth you literally have like Black Adam and the villains who essentially like makes their move on earth it's the coolest thing like it's one of the coolest things ever because right now protecting Earth you've got Wonder Woman Batman and Superman literally Superman's gonna focus on document Hatton we know that because of Manhattan's vision Wonder Woman I guess is gonna be left to defend the earth by yourself because Batman's gonna race off as well it's awesome okay so we are continuing with Doomsday Clock God this story's taking like two years to come out okay the cool thing is that the big takeaway from the last issue was basically it was like dr. Manhattan fighting against the Justice League it was really more just toying with him that was the craziest thing about the last issue almost all the Earth's superheroes come rolling in on Mars to like confront dr. Manhattan and he's just kind of swinging with him and is like okay I'm bored now and just waves his hand and they're all incapacitated right it was just like this grandiose display of how painfully outmatched they are it gives someone with the kind of power that dr. Manhattan has but the great thing about this story is it picks up with what's essentially classic misdirection right like it picks up with this old this old film ah there's really just referred to as like the adjournment right like the adjournment it's basically like this film is being shot with a couple of people one of which is Harvey Coleman and for the most part he's just kind of considered to be inept to a degree right like he's basically an actor that just can't pull it off as is really what it kind of seems to be hit out here like it's it's taken 12 takes and he keeps forgetting what his line is supposed to be and the funny thing about this is that again like with dr. Manhattan he doesn't he never released he doesn't see time linearly the same way we do right like we don't know what tomorrow holds we have to wait until tomorrow gets here to find out right it's like that it's like that rule you get off work at 7:00 a.m. and you go to bed and you go to sleep people will say well it's already tomorrow no tomorrow starts when I wake up like that's the way the world works and so because of that with Manhattan seeing everything happening all at the same time for him like a vincit ER is supposed to happen for us have already happened for him you know he just sees them he just knows how it's going to turn out and so being able to see time simultaneously means that again we sort of bounce around here now of course we'll do this in a way that that essentially makes sense but but for Carver Coleman himself again he's kind of considered to be like a nonsensical actor and on top of all that he's basically being blackmailed now of course we end up finding out the person is blackmailing him is his mom again these are just kind of smaller points here and there in reality just kind of sets the stage for the struggle of Carver to kind of show us the nature of his character what it is that he's going through he is kind of a centerpiece but not the definitive centerpiece instead what is up happening here is when he's blackmailed blackmail by his mom you know following up with that he basically gets up gets like all the the lines everything down perfectly so whatever was said between the two of them the indication is that it has a pretty significant impact on him and so from there we basically end up switching over to like dr. Manhattan himself and this is cool because what he does is he actually sort of kind of recollect sir it really seems to flashback among his own memories right like bringing Laurie the second so expect her to Mars and of course she suffocates and he gives her the ability to breathe and so I'm just kind of like jumping through these small little moments here and there and it's kind of a cool thing because then ultimately it basically settles when he first arrived in the main DC Universe on April 18th 1938 now for those people who were familiar with the history of DC Comics this date will strike you in particular and the reason why is because this is almost exactly three months before the arrival of Superman right like actually Comics number one debuted in June of 1938 so this is almost three months exactly before a Superman pops up on the scene and and again kind of focused being put here on on Carver Coleman this notion that like he's a little kid that his mom really seems to be like a prostitute more or less and then he gets a job working at a at a picture studio just working in the mailroom that eventually like the building burns down after he catches his boss essentially with another man which back then was considered to be taboo and of course he's basically fired he ends up being homeless and then of he's essentially like you know ran up on by some cops who really start beating the crap out of him and then dr. Manhattan shows up and that's when Manhattan begins to basically find his anchor in in the DC Universe and this is an important thing because when it comes to Manhattan in in really like The Watchmen universe he's essentially disconnected from humanity right he's just kind of like I'm bored of people but with Manhattan leaving the Watchmen universe and then coming over to to this universe basically it's him just kind of going through and saying okay like I'm exploring the multiverse now right I was the whole thing like I just kind of broke into the multiverse to go look at different things but it's this idea that he's essentially starting over right like he's it's almost like a like a scientific experiment it's starting over again he's somewhat invested in it because he wants to learn what all this is about and that's when he starts speaking with Carver and Carver almost addresses him as like an angel or God and someone the two of them sit down which is actually kind of an interesting power that I didn't really know Manhattan had he actually refract light around himself to essentially changes up here so that this woman this waitress sees what he wants her to see which I mean I guess for a guy that can control the atomic structure of matter it makes sense but nonetheless in his discussions with Carver what he does is really just kind of give him like these small little bits of information about things that'll happen later on down the line this is kind of a funny thing here and the reason why is because we don't initially find out what it is that he told him all we know is that between the time that Carver basically went to Hollywood to try to become an actor and then ultimately became a paperboy lost his job and then got his job in the in the adjournment that basically like Manhattan spoke to him and talked to him now here's why this matters is because again Coleman is as anchor to humanity it's through Coleman that Manhattan begins to sort of understand what people are like in this universe right because there's no assumption it's the same thing there's no assumption that like that when they show up here that that or at least when he shows up here that it's gonna be the exact same thing as the Watchmen universe it's an impartial just sort of looking at things and seeing how they unfold but in the midst of all this suddenly Manhattan is basically like he overhears this conversation about some guy you know basically like some guy in Metropolis who picked up a car over his head the introduction of Superman and he immediately takes off because from that point it becomes a question of okay so basically I've traveled back to the moment when Superman first pops up and he actually watches the events unfold he witnesses the events take place now this is kind of a funny thing here because the indication is that when this happens when Superman picks up his car he looks back and basically like glances at Manhattan but he doesn't seem to see Manhattan or if he does that he just kind of smirks her or what have you now a lot of that kind of goes into the idea that I he had this smile on his face you know is what they were saying when he picked up the car as it was kind of a cool thing because what Manhattan does is literally start going through and saying okay so Superman seems to be where my life ends right that's the main brunt of the story so far is that the last thing Manhattan sees is Superman flying at him in and you'll absolutely pissed off and then everything goes black and he doesn't know if it goes black because Superman kills him or if it goes black because he wipes everything out and so he really just kind of begins to sort of look at the timeline as it was supposed to be right and this is kind of the cool thing that in the in in 1940 that Alan Scott was basically you know on a like a railway guy I mean they came across the Green Lantern picked it up and used it and then it basically saved him from this train crash that was gonna happen that that in in January of around the same year Jay Garrick falls asleep neo and is exposed to heavy water and ends up becoming you know the the flash Jay Garrick the same thing with Carter Hall becoming Hawkman with Al Pratt becoming the atom Kent Nelson becoming dr. fate with Wesley Dodds becoming Sandman with Jim Corrigan becoming becoming the specter these origins of these characters you know as he knows him and as he's seen them unfold and Denis switches over to the formation of the JSA and this is a cool thing because there's actually some history that Geoff Johns pulls out here so when the JSA meets what they do is a they kind of start talking about like their role as characters you know what are they going to do as heroes and for the most part they're not wildly familiar with each other they're just kind of aware the other is there now this is kind of a cool thing because what this does is it basically hits it like what's essentially the first crossover between these characters back in the day the JSA was what's tried-and-true the first real coming together of a singular team like all-star comics you know the idea of a team sort of banding together now the original JSA as it existed back in all-star comics number three was actually a team up and that's one of the reasons why it's so cool is because truthfully Superman number 76 is what a lot of people point out when they say DC first established their shared universe but it's kind of but not really and the reason why is because all these characters that you see were created by all-star publications and then the DC side or at least the the Batman Superman side was national allied publications it was almost kind of like Marvel and DC so to speak right so I mean like eventually all-star in national allied join together and they became Detective Comics Incorporated but essentially this was a sister publication now the difference is that national allied and all Americans shared characters right like they were they would go back and forth with characters but Wonder Woman Alan Scott the original Green Lantern Jay Garrick the original flash the specter of these guys they were all all-star comics and so in reality it was kind of a shared universe strictly within All Star Comics that's why Superman number 76 and the formation of a shared universe in that story the fact that Gotham and metropolis both exists on the same earth and that Batman as Superman can cross over with each other the reason why that was so big is because that was the first time we've seen that going into what was essentially Detective Comics incorporated the merging of national allied and All Star Comics so again that's that's why that little bit of history there is significant but with this team meeting up and this team basically talking one of the things they say is we need to find Superman and this is kind of a cool thing because back then when this when this was really kind of being launched again it was for the most part hands-off and while they did share characters and the popularity of Superman and Batman could have essentially carried over to the JSA the issue was that it wasn't and the reason why was because they were afraid of overexposure right because you have the Superman comics and you had action you had the Batman comics and you had Detective and then not only that you actually had Superboy that was running around going on around the same time both national allied and All Star were afraid that if Superman and Batman appeared in the JSA in addition to the other publications they had the people would get burned out on them but the fact remains that like when they're going through and they're looking at this moment suddenly everything shifts and it goes back to when you had Johnny Thunder first started the picture and saying like okay the teams all here let's get our picture guys no one knows who Superman is no one knows who he is where he where he was where he's from or anything like that essentially Superman doesn't seem to exist and that's kind of the crazy thing is because what he does is dr. Manhattan travel back to two essentially where Superman first crash-landed in Smallville and then of course it kind of goes through a little bit of his origin story now we don't really have to do this per se because it's the origin story of Superman right he's discovered by John and Martha Kent they raised him eventually they died but the thing is is like John and Martha have died in various ways over the years that they've died when when like Jonathan just died of old age they've died when they were killed in a car crash they died when they both died of old age like they've both died under different circumstances and usually it's the result of a reboot and that's exactly what Manhattan hits on when Manhattan goes through all these different stories of Superman and says okay well John died in this circumstance and then Martha died in that circumstance and then John and Martha both died in this particular circumstance that what he's basically doing here is he's looking at this and saying okay if Superman goes on to become a character that embodies hope then let's see how far out this goes and so what he does is he jumps all the way to the 31st century right like when Superboy is first brought to that era by the Legion of super-heroes again a major arc for Superboy back in the day when he became like this sort of major superhero that dealt with more than just what Superman was doing when he was a kid and as the Legion begins to talk to him what we end up having is a scenario where we're document Hatton says okay fine then let's see what happens if I change things so he removes the lantern from Alan Scott's grasp and what it does is it creates this cascading effect the death of Alan Scott the fact that he doesn't show up basically leads to all these various characters not existing Superman never is never taken to the 31st century as Superboy meaning that point in time never really seems to happen instead it just kind of flash forwards a little bit and then it shows like the new 52 origin where John and Martha Kent are basically killed in a car crash so again like it's one of these things where Manhattan goes back he looks into the future says okay the legacy of Superman lasts well into the 31st century so let's see what happens if we change things that what Manhattan does is he looks down and he says this universe as it exists this DC universe is singular it's one of a kind the human beings on this planet perceive the multiverse as basically like a sort of branch universe theory right like what if Superman landed in Russia instead of the United States well then you get red Sun Superman but it's a branch off of the existing universe that's the way it works but what he says is that this universe is constantly changing it's constantly in flux it's not as though this universe came into existence and then it's basically maintained its exact same form ever since it was first created we've had crisis on Infinite Earths we've had Infinite Crisis we've had Final Crisis we've had zero our crisis and and we've had the events of Flashpoint happen this universe has constantly changed by one real for one reason or another and when it did it shuffled up the timeline things suddenly vanished but that's the question that a lot of people had people would sit down and they would say okay so my question is this if crisis on Infinite Earths happened and it was essentially a reboot coming out of crisis on Infinite Earths basically there was only a singular universe and everybody gets new origins then what happened to things before that they just vanished they were just gone one day that was it the original origin story of the JSA as it existed in 1940 and also our comics number three was wiped away what you got was the version of the JSA post-crisis that originally appear where they were basically heroes that fought during World War two that's the nature of what's kind of going on here is this idea that like all these other universes that exist out there they do branch off this universe but the reason why they branch off is because the main DC Universe is changing all the time it's constantly in flux and that's what Manhattan looks and that's why he did his experiment is because he said I look at this the history of this universe and I see the flash Barry Allen who initiated the flashpoint I see like the anti-monitor I see extent I see all these things ranging from the original crisis to zero hour all the way running up until you know the events of Flashpoint and I see all these major changes that take place so if they can mess up the timeline then so can i I'm just gonna use it as a grand experiment and just see what happens it's a kid with an ant farm is basically what this is now the funny thing is he says like there are a couple instances when like the universe tried to fight back right so like Wally West realized what was going on and tried to break out of the Speed Force to basically confront Manhattan and was forced back into it again and that goes into the events of DC Universe rebirth number one when Barry remembers who he is and essentially brings him back but the cool thing about that is that when that happens a lot of Wally's memories were kind of thrown into flux or wiped away entirely he doesn't remember any of it and that's kind of the crazy thing here is because when he looks at this he kind of looks at humanity and again he looks at Carver Coleman and he says like you're going to die we end up finding out he was basically killed by his mom using an award that he won but dr. Manhattan again kind of returns back to his disconnect it's kind of like okay so basically is still pretty much the same thing here like and this universe is the same thing as the other sure they have like super-powered beings but at the end of the day it's all still basically the same thing as humans running around with these irrelevant problems that they think are super important but they're not because they don't really see the grand scheme of things and their problems are no more important than the problems of anybody else but they think it's the most significant thing in the world because they believe the world revolves around them and that's kind of the cool thing here that's what's so awesome about that is it basically sits down and says in this universe that I live in with these experiments that I've done with the way that I've toyed with things way that I've screwed things up and mess with these people's lives in this universe of hope that literally revolves around Superman I've essentially become the villain and it's kind of a cool thing he doesn't say it because he really thinks he's a bad guy it's really just kind of like this internal discussion that he has I'm basically the villain here I'm basically the bad guy I've literally been screwing up the timestream it's focusing on the nature of Manhattan why has he done what he's done because he came into this universe he realized that like this universe is special in the sense of every other universe and the multiverse branches off of it and in that the universe is constantly changing so the question is what happens if you change things too fast what happens if you changed things in the extreme what will happen with this universe it's a science project is basically what it is so again the question still is still lingering does document hatton destroy this universe or does Superman destroy dr. Manhattan that's the question okay so we are getting into Doomsday Clock thank God the newest issue a Doomsday Clock came out honestly didn't even know if it was gonna happen like dude this class this story has been so delayed it's absolutely crazy but it is really good and it really is kind of worth it it's pretty amazing like we finally get answers here right which is kind of the issue at Jeff Jones is great at writing but sometimes he stretches things on a bit too long especially when it takes a story like three years to finish that it's just like our age dude just release it all is like a one-shot like just release the rest of it it's like just one trade or something like that just like one single story anyway so what we have going on here in this world right now on in the DC Universe which remember this is in continuity this is taking place I mean before all the stuff that's going on right now but basically it takes place in the main DC line of comics you essentially have the world falling apart right because the world has learned about the Superman conspiracy or at least the super may conspiracy has taken hold in the world and then of course you had the explosion of Ronnie Raymond in in Moscow Russia and then you had the superheroes taking off to Mars so to get you guys caught up on those of you guys who weren't really uh who aren't really familiar with this first things first go watch all the other videos that we've done and the second thing is to do kind of a rundown like a quick little explanation here the Superman conspiracy is this idea that floats around that after Superman arrived in the world right like after he basically popped up and became Superman he left Smallville went to Metropolis and became Superman that what the United States started doing was basically creating metahumans of their own they could either be a counter to Superman or fight alongside Superman right it was basically the United States government's attempt to kind of maintain control of the country now following that you have the events in Moscow and the idea behind this was that somewhere along the line Ronnie Raymond and company ended up in in Moscow Russia now how all that ties together will actually find out later in this story but basically Ronnie Raymond ended up in in Moscow Russia and during a major conflict he essentially detonated and when that happened it basically killed a multitude of different people essentially turning them to glass and then people saw it as an attack by American metahumans on Russian soil and so that basically led to Russians attempting to retaliate against the United States now following this you had all the superheroes or at least all the major superheroes from the US who went to Mars now they were following the trail of breadcrumbs which led them to believe that dr. Manhattan was on Mars albeit didn't know who he was they just knew there was a being out there and they had basically hypothesized that he was the one responsible for all of this the problem was when they went to go face-off against dr. Manhattan he toured with him for about 30 seconds and then took them all out and that was basically it right so pretty much all the superheroes in the United States except for Wonder Woman Superman and Batman are basically gone like I mean they're not dead but they're essentially unconscious on Mars now because of that what it does is it picks up with the fact that the earth is basically devolved into total chaos right like what you're seeing right now is essentially the way that adrian veidt's world in the Watchmen universe had essentially gone it's whale and I me Adrian Veidt basically released this giant monster into the world and with all the death and all the destruction at United humanity and then following that people eventually figured out that Adrian Veidt was the one behind it it was all one big ruse and humanity actually devolved to a state worse than before and then ultimately it ended with the Watchmen universe being engulfed in nuclear war basically wiping out all life on Earth at least we can just kind of assume that was the case since you know it was nuclear war it was it was mutually assured destruction right it was Matt and so because of that this really kind of seems to be going the same way I like these kind of seem to be devolving in the same process you've got a litany of conflicts taking place right now you've got Giganta facing off against Wonder Woman and then suddenly she's met by the arrival of Black Adam now this is only end up finding out here that in black Adams country of conduct because of the fact that he's so isolationist he's almost kind of taken this magneto approach now oh really black Adam has done this a litany of times over the years right like I mean you really saw it a lot in the injustice stories but basically what what like Adam has done here is he is isolated conduct and said this is a safe haven for metahumans all the metahumans who were left on earth who are not part of like the top tier superheroes and they can all come to conduct and they can basically find like refuge now it does allow the various metahumans to leave but the big focus that the United States has at the moment that is to say the American people and even people in Russia and in some other countries across the world is that the United States these are the handover Superman and the reason why is because Vladimir Putin has issued a deadline line he said at midnight if Superman is not handed over to the Russian government we launch an attack because right now the United States has no real superheroes but Russia does Russia has all their various superhero forces and so invading the United States would actually go off pretty much without it without a hitch and so again like everything is kind of falling to pieces because when all that happens you end up having Superman of course who awakes you know following you know his incident and collapsing all that kind of stuff you got Superman who basically wakes up in two you know with this I guess a little break having been taken with everything kind of going to pieces with everything going to pot and it's kind of a crazy scenario because as that happens you end up finding out that essentially that Adrian Veidt is talking to somebody that we can't really see watching these things unfold and these makeshift monitors and everything sort of going to pieces you know but then of course we end up finding out that Adrian Veidt is actually an Arkham Asylum and the way this whole thing plays out the releases seems like he's an Arkham Asylum but the way all this plays out as he walked by one room tells us old man to be quiet and then he basically ends up running up on Saturn girl I remember Saturn girl was part of the Legion of super-heroes from the 30th century I think Ben has changed it to the 31st century but she's part of the Legion of super-heroes for the future if she can read minds the issue is that when she came back here presumably she came back here to warn of like a major event that was gonna happen right that's what adrian veidt's says like you came here to warn Superman of something that you can possibly understand right but the issue is that somewhere along the line she was basically captured and she was thrown in Arkham Asylum at one point we don't know exactly where she is right now but like she was essentially captured it wasn't able to warn Superman now because that we end up switching over to Lex Luthor now this is one of the most important parts of the story right because Lex Luthor has been working with Lois Lane to kind of give these little bits and pieces of information in terms of what seems to truly be going on here and what Lex Luthor says is that at some point along the line that he found a photograph now we know that this photograph is of John rightous of dr. Manhattan back was he back when he was human on the watchman universe but this this photo was brought with dr. Manhattan over to the main DC Universe when he arrived and the picture was discovered the with this is that multitudes of these pictures have been discovered right it'd be simple if it was just one because what that means is that dr. Manhattan brought the picture with him and then when he showed up in the main DC Universe at whatever timeframe then the picture was basically dropped right by accident or whatever the case may have been he left it there and that basically has kind of just been floating there ever since the issue is that all these pictures are showing up here right they're showing up at different points in time in the DC Universe now really what geoff johns does it's kind of give us a hint he won't full-on explain this until the end but it kind of gives us a hint right like the big moment is back in on April 18th in 1938 now the reason why I say this was a hit this is a hint is because for those are guys who are familiar with your DC history that's when Action Comics number one was published in the chronological timeline of DC including all the various crises and everything they've had that's when Clark Kent officially like came out as Superman right like that was his first major act as Superman so that was a huge moment in the history of things you go forward and you end up finding each one of these things has appeared at various points in time now the question seemed to be at least from from Lois Lane stance does this mean that like whoever's doing this is traveling through time now those are the guys who were familiar with dr. Manhattan no that's not the case dr. Manhattan does not time-travel right he can't jump from the future to the past dr. Manhattan sees all time as a singular moment right so like he's standing in like 2019 right he's just kind of staring vaguely out into space that's because he's seeing all points in time simultaneously so it really kind of knows where things are gonna be but he doesn't actually go to the future he still moves forward in time just like everybody else does but he's not from this universe so again like this is him popping up here and so Lex Luthor actually has his own theory in terms of how it is that a man that cannot time-travel somehow appears at different points in time with the same picture right because by all standards of measurement what this looks like is it looks like dr. Manhattan showed up on April 13th in 1938 in the main DC Universe when Superman first popped up and then seemed to drop the picture or forget about it or whatever and then left maybe went to a different universe or something like that then came back but it's almost like he basically went back to the past and then came to the future and then went back to the past and then came to a different point in the future and then rinse repeat right but we know that's not the case because Manhattan doesn't time-travel and so it's cool because we end up giving this really really good explanation from Geoff Johns towards the end of this in terms of how all that goes down and so really like following this you end up picking up with reginal long now of course again wretched along was the son of Malcolm long and the guy who's essentially the new Rorschach here and while he's being held in prison he starts experiencing these crazy visions read these visions of his father going in to basically speak with Walter corvax that he's trying to plead with him hey look don't do that don't be that guy who does that it's only gonna destroy you end up meeting with like Johnny Thunder now of course that happened at some point before Johnny Thunder basically sacrificed his life right he died he just kind of burned alive but then you basically end up seeing that he's actually speaking or at least you kind of have this appearance of Alfred Pennyworth now this is kind of a subtle thing but it's also an exceedingly important thing and the reason why is because it's very very short and it doesn't seem to be important but this basically solidifies the fact that Batman has not given up on Rorschach remember that I was the one that grabbed him Batman was the one that took him and basically tossed him in the slammer and he's kind of been there ever since but what it means is that Batman didn't throw him in the slammer and then just walk away and forget about it the Batman had a back-up plan the back-up plan was Alfred do your homework go through here and look at everything about reginal long read the whole diary of war shack the whole nine yards learn everything you possibly can given the circumstances right because a guy from a different universe who doesn't really have a life on this on this main DC Universe but learn everything you can and and see if what he says is true of course cuz Batman had everything else going on didn't really have time for it and that's what Alfred's been doing Alfred's been doing research he's been poking around and he basically learned that everything that reginal long said is true right like everything that he's claimed about his life about were shaq the man named walter corvax being worshipped before him that all of that is true he's not just a crazy guy but the issue is that where you end up having Alfred Pennyworth trying to side with him all that you really have or at least all that that Reggie really knows at this point is betrayal right that's really all he knows about his life is betrayal losing his father Ozymandias turning against him Batman's doing him in the slammer that's all he really knows so of course he ends up bailing on Alfred Pennyworth and taking off you know and that's when things really sort of just kind of vanished and because what this does is it switches over to the answer to and to an answer to the question that a lot of people have been wondering about Doomsday Clock since the beginning of Doomsday Clock one of the questions a lot of people have had is where Sally just Fezzik whatever her name is like Sally Jupiter basically and like Nite Owl to where those characters at and we actually get an answer here so if you recall the characters from the previous video marionette and mime who were basically just criminals right they were the street-level criminals that at some point in their past when they were committing a robbery that dr. Manhattan was going to kill them but then chose not to because of the fact that Mary was pregnant now what Ozymandias says here is that when this went down everybody believed that dr. Manhattan didn't kill marionette because of the fact that she was pregnant but then he started thinking literally dr. Manhattan stood there and watch the comedian kill a pregnant woman so like he doesn't really care about the notion of pregnancy like the significance of it or anything like that it's just a human he doesn't really care anything about who was also housing a smaller human who doesn't really he doesn't really care anything about so the question was why did he save marionette and the reason why is because at some point along the line marionette would give birth to their daughter and then either they would die or they would end up in jail or she would have to give it up or whatever the case says but the child would be handed over to Sally just Fezzik and to dan dreiberg who have basically adopted the monikers of Hollis now that was a that was a very end of the Watchmen that was part of the Watchmen story but essentially like they adopted new identities and then went forward as wholly new people now the downside of this is we can largely assume that they basically died in the Watchmen universe right when the world was engulfed in nuclear war that was basically the end of it but that's what is up happening here with with Ozymandias is he basically starts to break down all this bit of a story starts to explain all these different things and what he says here is that on his world that it all basically engulfed he was trying to find a way to unite it right then he was trying to find a way to save his world once everybody realized that he was basically pulling a ruse that he's the one who released the monster that humanity didn't actually unite itself because of some genuine threat from a different dimension or from outer space or however they wanted to interpret it instead like they were all manipulated by Ozymandias and so as a result of this what he wanted to do was basically save his world which was rapidly devolved in a nuclear war which we can largely assume by now is it's already too late for it and at the same time like try to find a way to save this world which would ultimately end up devolve into the same landscape and so what he did is he manipulated this world in order to save it that when he went out and when he started poking around and he started looking around what he ended up discovering is that one when he grabbed this ship and when he stowed away and then he jumped from his universe to this universe then as he started going around and looking around he discovered of course superheroes he discovered like the flash and Wonder Woman and Batman is Shazam and all these characters which seemed exceedingly impossible right I mean it is a different universe from his own and so if the DC if DC Comics can have a universe or anthropomorphic animals including captain carrot captain carrot I love captain carrot captain cares super bunny if you can have a universe that basically has anthropomorphic animals playing the role of superheroes then you can have a you know where you have humans who were superheroes right like an infinite number of universes for an infinite number of possibilities which seemingly only 52 have actually been discovered according to Grant Morrison's Multiversity and so because of that what he did is he said okay fine there's a way to manipulate everything there's a way to basically get Manhattan to come back and so what he did here is seemingly in the blink of an eye he engineered this plant that when he started looking around that he learned that the Superman conspiracy actually had merit that while it wasn't like not every single metahuman in the United States is a result of government experimentation some of them are under Martin Stein basically the guy who would go on to merge with Ronnie Raymond and become firestorm that under Martin Stein all these projects were seen they were over seemed and they were basically designed to create metahumans they could either counter Superman or fight along and monitor Superman Riley was basically the US government never fully trusted the Man of Steel and so they wanted to have at least some kind of a deterrent right as Superman was basically a really really cool guy and then Lois Lane broke his heart and he said you know what the heck with humanity were like you follow the red pill and just became this really angry guy and then basically like tried to wipe away the world then they would have a way to counter that right and so because of that but what he did is he said okay then let's take the Superman conspiracy and Leslie get to a guy named named named pose are out in in Russia rights and then Russia gets a hold of the superman conspiracy before the US does and then Russia starts espousing it and so that's why you ended up having this initial rift in the United States because Russia was saying that the United States is creating all these various superheroes in response to Superman the Superman conspiracy is real and the American people initially rejected it right this is just Russians using misinformation and just doing what they do but then detailed information started to leak out and as that information started to leak out humanity began to believe it and as they started to believe it they started to turn against Superman following this Ozymandias engineered the explosion of firestorm in Russia which further seemed to lead to the idea that if the United States government is engineering superheroes for the purpose of doing whatever is they want to do and then Russia called them on at Russia leaked that information this is the US government retaliating against Russia or it's the superheroes retaliating against Russia whatever the case is it looks like it's the United States acting in a defensive manner because what Russia said was true and so it further solidified the Superman conspiracy and then further solidified people turning against Superman and the various members of the superhero community and so when all this is basically explained we end up having this really really cool exchange that takes place between one man and black Adam as well as Ozymandias and Jupiter girl Matt Jupiter girl Saturn draw against Mars girl uh so the way this plays out of course is you basically have like black Adam and his forces will show up on the White House lawn right which never bodes well like any time that the Black Adam shows up it usually means somebody's gonna get the crap beat out of them right it's usually way this so you end up having this kind of exchange here right now Superman shows up because regardless of what the world thinks of him Superman will continue to protect the world now that's the nature of his character it's the way he's always been written that's Superman's role his his loyalty is not to like a singular government to man's not loyal to the US government any more so than he would be loyal to the Russian government or anything like that if it's something that would endanger people like you'll side with the government if they need him to do something that'll basically like stop some some catastrophic threat right like the US government comes to him and says Superman there is a meteor coming to earth and it's gonna destroy all life on Earth we need you to work alongside the suicide squad and stop it okay then like he would do that but like he's not a government stooge this is not like the Dark Knight Returns read it does what the government tells him to instead it's basically one of these things where he's an ally of Earth and having having like like Adam show up on the White House lawn to confront the president is basically a scenario that goes with Superman saying somebody has to act but this is a problem with the Superman conspiracy right you know in in this day and age it's you know people choose the facts they want right like people believe what they want to believe and so because of that people would look at that and they would say well it's not really Superman standing in like protecting the president if Superman protecting the government because he's a government stooge because of the Superman conspiracy because you know I I believe it's true I want it to be true so I'm going to assume it's true and and it's interesting is it's really kind of a social critique right at least a critique on modern society right like people replace factor their opinions and then treat their opinions as fact and so it's it's kind of interesting you know in terms of how this unfolds but you wouldn't having Ozymandias who basically asked this question to Saturn girl he says here's the question that I have for you if you come for the future of this timeline and in the future of this timeline a massive event takes place and you've come damn warned Superman because of it here's my question does Superman remember you right like does he does he like in the in whatever this future is the Superman remember you and the response to that question is no and so basically she starts to vaporize because what what awesome Annius basically says is you come from a timeline that doesn't exist anymore but you come from a timeline that's not there anymore this feeds into what dr. Manhattan had basically discovered is that by virtue of his actions the Legion of super-heroes don't exist right a legion of super-heroes ceased to exist because of something that it is that he's done and so as you end up having Ozymandias passing by this this cell with this old man we end up learning this old man is actually Alan Scott he's the Green Lantern which is a crazy revelation that seemingly Alan Scott seems to be still a lot like I don't I don't really know how as far as I'm aware he's dead that what end up happening is is in one of the earlier Doomsday Clock stories that dr. Manhattan had actually moved the lantern away from Alan Scott so that when the lantern landed Alan Scott didn't see it and was hit by the train instead of in the original comic when he saw the Lantern crash and then he went to go grab the lantern and because he grabbed it he and neither he wasn't hit by the Train right he missed the Train and so because of that like it's it's kind of a crazy little a little facet here because you end up having Manhattan watching this whole scenario unfold with Superman fighting against like Adam and he says like in six seconds Superman is going to see me five four three two one Superman meets dr. Manhattan it is here ladies and gentlemen it is here ladies and gentlemen yes it is just earth the conclusion of Doomsday Clock man we've all been vying for this only took three years to finish okay so if you guys remember in the in the basically everything that's been going on over the course of the last eleven issues for Doomsday Clock has essentially been that like that there were a couple things going on and really like two major events right it was the idea that Geoff Johns was building this scenario well the world was essentially coming to an end not really about like nuclear war or anything like that really more about like a metahuman war that was kind of building up this idea that all the many humans across the world were going to go to war it was gonna kind of be DC's equivalent of like the watchman's into the world right we're in the Watchmen universe who was basically just a collapse you know of the world basically by way of like nuclear warfare where that seemed to be the case instead what we basically had here is we had two things happened the first was that was the Superman conspiracy this idea that essentially all the many humans or most of them of the world's metahumans had resulted from experiments in the United States based on the work of well really people didn't actually know where it was from it was just like Superman had arrived on earth and arrived in Candice's sub portal on the line after he showed up the federal government sorted experimenting with creating metahumans and that's where most of them came from the next big thing to really that was the whole incident that happened in Russia with firestorm with rotting Raymond where basically his energy was let out in an extreme capacity and the result was that multiple people in in Russia were killed I think was in Moscow itself but multiple people in Russia were killed and so what this members of the world was basically on the brink of collapse right you know what the Superman conspiracy and all the things tied into it the idea that the United States was basically mass producing metahumans and really seemed to push the world to do closer and closer towards destruction that that the idea of the the incident in Russia had really kind of been the powder keg that set it all off now the reality was that Earth's superhero said for the most part learned to a degree what was going on in so far is it all seemed to stem from Manhattan which of course led to the battle and on Mars and the Manhattan himself had basically defeated pretty much all of them and then showed up on earth to find out why he couldn't see past Superman you know when when he and Superman were going to fight why he couldn't see past it and that's where this basically picks up this idea that like he cannot see what's supposed to happen here he can't see past Superman that is the crazy thing because Superman basically does approaches it right that's where we left off in the last video is that Superman was walking up to dr. Manhattan right and it's interesting because man-hands response here is you're the one who's going to destroy me you're I'm the one who's going to destroy destroy everything I don't really know which way it is but essentially everything's going to end right like everything ends and that's kind of the cool thing here is is because of its really Superman who doesn't even really understand what's going on here right like Superman is just kind of like okay so I don't I don't know who you are I don't know where you're where you came from but like you're literally telling me on the on the cusp of this major collapse and all these various super-powered beings running towards me wanting to fight me like you're telling me that like the world's going to end or you're going to kill me or I'm gonna kill you or whatever the case is like I'll deal with that here in a minute that's basically it like I'll deal with that here in a minute and this is kind of a funny thing right because Manhattan is essentially watching all of this unfold and and under normal circumstances and given the nature of the Watchmen universe right when you look at characters like the comedian when he looked at characters like war shot you looked at uh really like Nite Owl dan dreiberg and all these different things normally this was just been a fight that broke out like Superman would have just started attacking everybody because it's what Manhattan is used to see and there is everything that he's seen in the DC Universe since he's been here but this was really more of him just kind of experimenting with the universe and just sort of seeing what happens but for the most part you kind of see a darker tone you know more recently where the demons gone on and so watching this whole thing unfold with Superman what you might end up getting here is a guy who's basically not like going through and trying to kill everyone you see a guy who's trying to fend off and trying to defend himself against everyone making these statements and making these claims there's innocent people here why are you attacking me in this place right so it's interesting because what it does from there is it switches over to Reggie now remember when it came to to the character of Reggie he basically picked up the mantle of war Shack after Walter Kovacs had basically died I remember that's one of the things that was kind of revealed here it's for Reggie he was all built on a lie that were Mothman who had previously died when Mothman had looked at this and and he had basically told Reggie that the idea was that his father was really like getting into getting through to corvax and like helping corvax become a better person the reality is that corvax was warping the mind of Reggie's father who was the other way around and so Marvin had essentially lied but the reason why the reason for this is is really kind of a breakdown of Reggie himself because he's approached by some guy who basically thinks that who really seems like a racist dick and things that Reggie's like going to break into his place and then of course like you basically have Alfred Pennyworth who shows up and basically rescues Reggie and then starts talking to him and Reggie has kind of been having this mental crisis because nothing he believed to be true was actually true instead like his father was screwed up by Walter Kovacs he's in wearing the mask of a man who basically killed his father right I mean that was the idea was not really in a literal sense it wasn't like you know were Shaq killed the father of Reggie but he certainly drove him to that position you know and so as a result of that what you end up having here is um having ready just kind of be like I don't want to do this anymore I don't want to have anything to do with this and and ultimately Alfred really seems to try to talk some sense into a right really kind of seems to be like Superman needs your help like other people out here need your help there's a greater purpose that can be served here but ultimately Reggie doesn't seem to want to listen instead what you get is this continued neo claimed this in Kitty and continued a scenario with Reggie where it's like war Shaq is a bad guy I'm wearing the mask of a villain like of a terrible person that kind of thing and then Batman arrives and this is one of the coolest things right because you would expect Batman to play a much bigger role in Doomsday Clock really in the latter half of the story in the third act and what we've seen so far but him showing up here and him talking to Walter Kovacs is an amazing thing because you have a lot of other things going on in the background right you got like mime and Mary Ann that who are out doing their on and so forth and there's kind of being crazy and in doing whatever crazy people do but Batman starts to talk reason into Reggie and this is probably Batman's most powerful asset the ability to look at things objectively to remove emotion from the equation and just say like here's the circumstance for what it is and one of though this is one of the most beautiful things here what he does his details Reggie yes your perception of war Shaq is not what you thought it was your perception of war Shaq was that he was a guy who was basically trying to save the world are doing however we're doing whatever it was that you thought it was that he was doing but rather that you thought he was doing but in reality he was the guy who basically turned your father into the worst version of himself right like he's the one that basically warped and screwed up the mind of your father and while that is the case Mothman didn't lie to you right Byron didn't lie to you because he wanted to somehow trick you or deceive you or anything like that he lied to you because he wanted you to take the mask of war Shaq and turn it into something better turn it into something that means something that can benefit the world something that can become much greater but here's the irony of all this is that while Walter Kovacs himself was pretty screwed up right he was pretty messed up he was like Batman in the extreme right so like that had Punisher insofar as Walter had no problem with killing people or anything like that like while that was the case at the end of the day Walter corvax was the guy who actually stood against Adrian Veidt and was like you can't kill that many people but you can't be the person that does that even if it does bring peace to the world I can't stand idly by and let you do that so in reality Walter corvax actually fought on behalf of humanity in his whole debate and argument with with with Adrian Veidt in the Watchmen comic which ultimately led to his demise it was a cool moment there but at the end of the day you know it's one of these things where Walter was not really as twisted and terrible as Reggie believed he was it was just Reggie's perception of it that's kind of the irony of it all but in the end Batman's response is become something better right you see you see a monster when you look at the mask make the mask something to wear you look at it and you see a hero and that's kind of the cool thing because then what it does is it switches back to Superman and it switches back to dr. Manhattan and this is awesome here because you know literally you have like like Manhattan just sort of talking to him remember Manhattan's just kind of disconnected but he's just kind of like a thing is happening here right he's not like overly emotional about it he's just kind of like you know like what's gonna happen here are you going to destroy me I'm not gonna defend my soul like what's going to happen if Superman comes lunging at dr. Manhattan right comes flying your document hat and that's the crazy thing about this is it doesn't really seem to be provoked right Manhattan's just not he's not like your mama wears combat boots does it make it's like you so look just comes flying out it doesn't happen that way right but it's just Superman just starts lunging at dr. Manhattan and the reason why he does that is to protect Manhattan and that is the single most important thing because Manhattan looks at everything that's happened basically everything that's deaths that's taken place in the DC Universe so far is really a result of several different actions of dr. Manhattan right moving the green lantern away from Alan Scott so that he basically is of dying you know dying in the in the train crash as opposed to becoming the Green Lantern and preventing the train crash and invite you know from that point going forward creating the Justice Society of America like like all these things and the entire existence of the DC Universe as it stands now results from like various actions at Manhattan had committed the flashpoint event the fact that he stepped in the idea that he stepped in was one who's basically saved Superman's father from the destruction of Krypton bringing him into the modern era all these things that are going on are the result of dr. Manhattan's actions and so what he does is he kind of looks at Superman and he expects him to attack him because pretty much the life of Superman as it used to be before the events of Flashpoint versus the life of Superman as it exists now is the result of Manhattan meddling Mad Hatter of Manhattan's actions or the reason why Superman's parents are dead different things like that and so he would expect Japan to attack him but instead what he ends up getting from Superman is he basically like Superman doesn't really just fly off the handle that way and that's the way Superman usually is and is the one thing about and that Manhattan doesn't really understand because Manhattan doesn't really care about people anymore and so when you don't really have an interest in humanity and you don't really care about why people do what they do and you're your really major driving force is let's just see what kind of things can happen if I mess with them with the multiverse and that's basically yet and then suddenly it becomes shocking what a person's who a person whose life you screwed up really seems to kind of forgive you it really wants to understand why you did what you did as opposed to just losing their mind and trying to kill you and that's really what goes on is because Superman starts asking questions who's the woman in the photograph you're leaving that photograph with every step you take everywhere you go was she important to you and of course she was that was Janie that was the girlfriend of dr. Manhattan when he was younger that was the person whose watch was left in the intrinsic field generator he went running back in there got locked in and then became Manhattan right that's the nature of his origin is it all has to do with watches and everything and so ultimately because of everything that's going on here this is where things get crazy because with everything going on here but Superman starts talking to him it says well maybe maybe the darkness that you see here maybe it takes everything that you have to save the world right like maybe that's maybe that's the nature of you and so as a result about Manhattan its identity so is okay yes I understand now everything ends lifts his hands and it all goes black everything ends up just like vanishing and here's the question to ask you right because what he says but the way this narrative goes from Manhattan he says it all begins with a child right it begins with Superman all right the Metaverse forms around this one and only person everything that takes place the entire all everything that happens in the DC Universe all revolves around Superman Superman comes flying in he crash-lands on earth and then in turn what is up happening is Manhattan goes back and basically starts to undo the various things that he did that when Alan Scott died during the train crash as a result of Manhattan moving the lantern Manhattan moves the lantern back and so Alan Scott discovers the lantern becomes a Green Lantern saves the day and so where previously the origin of Superman was there were no superheroes before him and his father literally tells him the world's not ready for a person like you because they've never seen a person like you before with the lantern being moved back with Alan Scott basically becoming the Green Lantern like he was supposed to be then suddenly the origin of Johnna or the the scenario Jonathan Kent shifts and it says the world has seen people like this before so if you really believe that you that your powers give you something to offer the world and if you really believe that you can become something special in something great then just get out there and do your thing son and the result of this is that where Hart could not really stepped into the role of embracing his powers uh you know during the universe or during the time when Alan Scott never became the Green Lantern his parents died in a car wreck but in this instance because of the fact that he did embrace his powers because he his father gave him words of encouragement instead of words of discouragement when the time came where they were supposed to die in a car crash Clark Kents there and he saves him he saves the lives of John John and Martha Kent so it's that cascading effect right the actions of Manhattan when he came in and removed the lantern and Alan Scott died resulted in Alan Scott never becoming the Green Lantern meaning Superman was never inspired to become Superman meaning his parents died in a car wreck because his father had discouraged him instead of encouraging him and of course things transpired accordingly but with Alan Scott becoming the Green Lantern now what does is that a singular action can have this massive cascading effect along this great big huge timeline over and over and over again and that's a crazy thing about is because Superman now basically becomes Superboy who in turns steps in and the Legion of super-heroes of course travels back in time recruits super what all these things basically begin to unfold with regards to Superman's impact on the greater landscape Johnny Thunder who had long since been searching for his genie but actually forgotten about it is basically inspired to return to it and so Johnny Thunder goes back to being Johnny Thunder the way he was before Saturn girl jumps back to the 31st century everything starts snapping back in place the way it was supposed to basically what this looks like is going on and this is where things get this is where things get kind of crazy what it looks like it's going on here I'm not gonna claim this but what it looks like Geoff Johns is doing is resetting the entire timeline right busy it's not even really a crisis it kind of feels like a soft reboot and the reason why I say that is because in the midst of this conflict where Superman is getting pummeled by all these various super-powered people right Black Adam and all these various individuals you know they're like literally out of nowhere it's like you remember us now don't you right because now they're a part of the timeline but Superman didn't remember them before because they never existed before right the the the Legion of super-heroes never came back from the 31st century because Superman was never Superboy so there was no reason for the Legion of super-heroes to come back and seemingly they didn't didn't really seem to exist because they weren't inspired by Superboy who was brought to the 31st century at some point in time like literally because ala Scott's there because the Justice Society was created because super super warrior I guess Clark was inspired to become Superboy and embrace his powers because of this very big huge change in the cascading effect really in the timeline itself suddenly all these heroes start popping up and one of them one of them says sorry we're late son and ultimately sir man says well it's better late than never and what we get is the return of the Justice like the Justice Society of America and the Legion of super-heroes like all these characters are back like they're back now in DC Comics and that's crazy it's amazing to see like like basically what we're getting is pretty much what it looks like the DC landscape before like like at least in terms of Heroes before the events of the new 52 all the characters are back now the Justice Society of America is back the Legion of super-heroes is back and everybody remembers who the other person is and it's awesome to see released Superman does and the question is like will people like the flash remember who they are but essentially Superman has this colossal group of teammates fighting on his behalf not only that what dr. Manhattan does is witness and really begin to understand that everything really does revolve around Superman that all these different universes exist out there and in every single universe Superman always comes into existence right so you know during the events of crisis on Infinite Earths the entire multiverse was reset basically down to a singular universe there was just Superman everything always revolves around Superman now here's one of the craziest things to consider here the line of DC Comics that we saw between DC showcase issue number four when Barry Allen first showed up as a flash leading up to the destruction of the multiverse in in crisis on Infinite Earths that's not that's no longer referred to as earth one as it was back then instead now is called Earth 1985 and like it's a universe out there right like it's a universe that exists out there and has never been explored why Divac says that you know a world unexplored even today right he goes with FAR's and this this is where things get crazy as goes as far as the same that there's a universe out there that exists right like earth 52 is out there soon as soon essentially like the new 52 universe exists out there as a separate universe Jeff Jones is going through and one either picking and choosing the various universes from convergence and kind of keeping them there building on what we already know in terms of like what universes are there but basically saying that like there's all these alternate realities out there now I would not be surprised if in the aftermath of this we got something akin to like zero hour crisis in time but for the multiverse right like after zero hour back in the 90s they kind of gave us like the Marvel gave us this big I'm sorry do you see give us this big timeline of like when things happen in the universe right like when Superman arrived on earth when Batman was born different things like that it didn't last somebody really stuck to it but I wouldn't be surprised if we got basically like a new multiversal map basically like how this map works what these worlds are different things along those lines is a cool thing to see not only that Geoff Johns looks like he's teasing future crises like future events right like he says like this is it in the year 2020 Superman's timeline is bombarded by the reckless energies of the old gods once again warping the multi or the Metaverse now I don't know I assume he's referring to Darkseid war when he says this like I assume that's what he's referencing there I could be wrong like my thought is if we're talking about the year 2020 the nest next year we're talking about like what's going on in Justice League right now like with Perpetua the the anti-monitor the monitor the forger of worlds and so on and so forth but then you get July 2nd 2025 a crisis unlike any other the Metaverse has ever seen will erupted calling it the time masters I thought he was representing the old time masters comic from 1990 I don't think he is like I think you seem like there's going to be a crisis like a major crisis in 5 years which is kind of a long time like we're 6 years rather it's kind of a long time to do into another crisis but like in its wake Superman is revitalized it's this constant thing right these constant set of events and it goes on and on and on and on what he basically says is that no matter what the alternate reality is no matter what universe it's in no matter what time period Superman arrives in that universe that universe revolves around Superman that there might be superheroes before him but Superman uh sure 'he's in a whole new era that had never been seen before his arrival right before he stepped onto the scene he's the most significant and the most important hero and so as a result of that what is up happening is Manhattan basically starts snatching people away right he snatches away Adrian Veidt he snatches away mime and marionette he snatches away the comedian he takes away like like Reggie like brings them all to his location and it's kind of a crazy thing there because what you end up having is basically him talking with Adrian Veidt and adrian veidt's response is you didn't care enough to save our world right there was no way to get you back to save our world you thought our world was beyond hope and you felt like civilization on our world was beyond hope what you needed was to be inspired you needed somebody who could strike you in such a way to where it would totally shift your perception that's what had to happen here as Manhattan had to kind of be yanked away from his disconnect from humanity and reconnect his humanity again and in adrian veidt's mine the only way to do that was to take him to a place where super-powered beings despite all the various powers that they had were still human right they still were still capable of fantastic things and they in and of themselves were inspiring and so if he wanted to inspire Manhattan then take him to a world of people who could inspire him most notably Superman and so with Manhattan's seeing everything that goes on Noah Manhattan with Jewish staying knowing Manhattan would mess with things he'd be curious and so on and so forth the idea was to engineer set of circumstances where ultimately Manhattan would end up in this particular universe and become inspired by Superman and then be inspired to save the world and then by doing that by getting Manhattan to reconnect with himself the idea was then to somehow bring Manhattan back to the Watchmen universe and get Manhattan to fix the Watchmen universe he was all the grand scheme of Adrian Veidt to save his own world of course at that point comedian like shoots him in the stomach or shoots him in the chest and he's just like you're out of luck man like your times done like that's it and then Lex Luthor comes out of nowhere basically just like ends up ends up screwing up the the temporal energies of comedian and basically sends him back to where he came from right so it's Geoff Johns away ously okay comedian your time it's done here back to the watching universe where you got thrown out of the building by Adrian Veidt and and then now you're going back to being dead again right and so basically he kind of gets it right back to the moment in which he died where he was snatched away by Manhattan and brought into the DC Universe but it's sort of nuts because like from there you you literally have these these scenarios where you really had Manhattan talking with my my marionette I really sort of explained in this whole situation too that when the question was like you gotta even when they say you have to send us back to our universe because we need our son rather he starts telling them about how like no you have a daughter that's basically on the way right now ask for your son my plan is that you'll see each other again you know he'll de he'll need an anchor here in this universe so basically mime and marionette are being left behind in the DC Universe they're staying here and are not going back to the hwachun universe now this is important right because we've seen geoff johns do this before it specifically with blackest night in brightest day that was the whole idea behind those two stories blackest night was was basically designed to bring back every single superhero and every single super villain who ever died right to bring them all back and then brightest day was designed to keep particular individuals right not all of them but to keep particular individuals and then in turn allow them to stay as part of the DC landscape everybody else just wasn't popular enough to keep around so they all end up going back to being dead again and so as a result of that it's kind of a cool thing because what he does is kind of begin that the process is sort of reconnecting looking looking at the world as it exists now with the return of the Justice Society of America having been inspired by Superman and it's like a whole new day right because then from that point he jumps back to the Watchmen reality right ended up jumping back to the watchman dimension and when he does he basically begins the process of restoring things back after that like it's going from location to location right to sort of why you know we we get this kind of explanation of the world as it unfolds right the world as it exists now Reggie you know Rorschach looks like he's staying in the DC Universe and by remaining in this DC universe he's now a character that can be used at some point along the line how that will fare I have no idea but I imagine him probably getting a solo book you know but in turn what also ends up happening is that with the child is being warned by mine and marionette of course man hadn't really kind of makes reference to this idea that he's not really able to understand it doesn't really seem to be able to grasp the details of what's going on with the son of mime and marionette only for us to find out the reason why he can do that is because the the blind spot with a child is because of him right the blind spot with a child's future the fact that he can't see that child's future is a result of Manhattan himself and the reason for this is because Manhattan took the son of Miami marionette right he took this child away and then in turn went forward into the world took the child to Mars you know kind of looked at how these things unfolded and basically grabbed the child and said okay this kid now is going to essentially receive all of my powers and that's exactly what he does and he basically kind of disperses himself out there and then puts his powers within this child right so Manhattan as he traditionally exists is no longer in existence now right so it's like what you guys saw at the end of the Washington TV show which I surmise is the reason why it took so long for this comic to come out so it could kind of but the ending could coincide with the show and people could basically identify with the two concepts and understand what's going on but with this child's basically receiving the powers of dr. Manhattan what this does is it basically transitions to the home of dan dreiberg and in Laurie right I mean we you guys know where they are rightly you guys know what's you know Silk Spectre and and in and night out of course they're much older now you know the world Honeyman that the Watchmen world having basically been saved by dr. Manhattan the other daughter basically shows up and it's just kind of like okay cool right because this is the daughter of mama marionette there's basically being raised by dan dreiberg and laurie juspeczyk and so because that like the kid shows up on the front door and it's just like you know she says hey my name's Sally you know what's yours and you know he's like what my name is Clark John brought me here and said that like your parents would know what to do it's a beautiful ending because basically you have kind of a dr. Manhattan reborn with all these various powers but with no real ties or agonal aside from the powers no real ties to the history of the original dr. Manhattan but with like an insane amount of abilities it's interesting and it's actually really really cool I'm pretty excited about it what this does is it leaves these characters kind of open right Adrian Veidt didn't die Adrian Veidt was basically put in a prison meaning Adrian Veidt is now in the DC Universe Rorschach is now in the DC Universe all these characters aside from the comedian are now in the DC universe the only exception here is the son of mono marionette calling himself Clark and possessing the powers of dr. Manhattan now something else to point out of here and this is entirely possible it could be the Manhattan brought these folks here from the watchbird universe right but again it seems as though this is all taking place in the Watchmen universe you know with regards to the daughter of mama marionette Sally that's basically being raised by laurie juspeczyk and dan dreiberg it's cool like it's really really amazing I think it's a fitting end of the story was I expecting like this great big huge knock-down drag-out fight between Superman and dr. 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Length: 176min 24sec (10584 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 20 2019