Devastation in New York, 3 Million Killed

November 3, 1985. Most of New York City has been devastated. Many are blaming Dr. Manhattan for the destruction, because he hides away on Mars. According to reports, the late Rorschach has left behind a journal telling the truth behind this devastation. In fact Ozymandias’ is behind the killings, Rorschach’s journal claims that Ozymandias had created a scheme to destroy millions of people in order to save billions for the “greater good”. Rorschach and Nite Owl’s attempts to stop Ozymandias was in vain when they found out they were too late.

3 Million were killed instantly due to Ozymandias’ teleported “alien”. Rorschach has been reported dead and the rest of the Watchmen have again gone into hiding. Only time will tell if this moment of peace will be short lived.

By: Alex Poulos

The Hero Behind the Mask

Ozymandias

Abilities:

• World’s Smartest Man
• Olympic Level Acrobat
• Can catch a shooting bullet

Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias, is known as the “Smartest Man in the World”. The first of the Watchmen hero’s to retire from crime-fighting, before the Keene Act of 1977. He went public with his identity and used his fame to start an enterprise.

Veidt was born into a rich family. As a teenager he was greatly inspired by Alexander the Great and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, which he based his superhero identity on. When he inherited a fortune he gave it all away so that he could truly succeed from nothing.

Veidt came-out of retirement when he realized that masked vigilante could not deal with the world’s evil alone. He took it upon himself to “fix” this problem, and concocted a plan to “save the world from itself”. He believed that killing millions of innocent people would distract the rest of the world from its potential WWIII and concentrate more on living together in peace. This forces Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Jon to question his plan, and fight against him to save humanity.

By: Yasmine Escudero

Advice-off, a battle of perception fought to the death, between Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach!

Two heroes ready and willing to solve your toughest dilemmas, whose opinions will you value most?

Tom in Allendale writes:

Hi guys, I am a big fan read your work, I read you guys every week but now I need your help. My wife left me for my new boss, I just turned 45, my pet chinchillas just died and I just got my walking papers from my job because I am getting called back to active duty for Afghanistan after 15 years out of the National Guard, which by the way I signed up for to get a good job and pay for the wedding to my EX. I don’t know what to do; it doesn’t seem like life is worth living!

Please help,

Tom

“Sure glad I’m not Tom”.

Looks like you got some hard choices there Tommy boy, but then the whole world is crumblin down around ya, and all you can do is whine about some pet rats, a crappy job and dirty ex-wife. Can’t you see the end is nigh man, its coming for us all buddy boy. You gotta ask yourself if you’re the kind of quivering little girl that shirks his responsibility because he had a few bad breaks, or if you’re a real Guardsmen and you own up to your life and go get some commie-ass!

But hey, that’s just one man’s opinion, feel free to toddle off and put us out of your misery!

Yours truly,

Rorschach

Hello Thomas,

What my counterpart (in the most distinctive ways) fails to comprehend is that your future is already completed. Your past, present, and future selves are colliding mercilessly into and out of each other. You have no decision to make; it has already been made and unmade in the same instant. Was it my fault for leaving that watch in the atomic chamber? Or perhaps the obese man who broke it is to blame; better yet my father is to blame for the destruction of Japan and the entire nuclear destruction of millions because he couldn’t have a watchmaker for a son. But I digress; in the end you are a watch without a maker, you can only tune yourself.

Best regards, sorry you decided to make the wrong choice next week though, but because the universe will not even notice. In my opinion the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

Dr. Manhattan

Adrian from Anytown writes:

What if you know that you have to do something in order to save the world, but in doing so you irritate some people of no particular consequence, possibly some people might get hurt or dead, but the world as a whole would be better off, of that you’re sure? Any suggestion on how to go about completing this plan in secrecy from say, nosey wana-be detective types or an all knowing being?

Not waiting for your response,

Adrian

Greetings Adrian,

I too have experience in the dilemmas of the greater good. Whether it was the completion of my nuclear physics work, or personally ending the Vietnam conflict, each was a burdensome chore. Although sometimes our actions can be burdensome, I certainly understand the inevitability of extreme actions to solve touch conflicts; take it from me, I built a perfect structure out of glass on Mars just to get away from it all. If you wish to conceal your actions from the future, I suggest an electromagnetic pulse, possibly from the detonation of warheads; that could cause a significant static blinding the future. In the end, small sacrifices must be made for the good of the whole, which is the nature of human nature as I have come to understand it.

Best of luck, warmest regards, and please let me know if I can be of further assistance to your plan,

Dr. Manhattan

What a bunch a garbage!

The two of you ought to work together on your little psycho-sinister plot to “save” the world. After reading yours’ and Dr. Cold-as-Ice’s letters, I am convinced more now than ever that the end is certainly nigh! Look, you’re talking about the destruction of some to save the whole, this kinda thinkin is what got those crazy Nazi’s in trouble. They blamed a few in order to “save” themselves. I dedicated my adult life to punishing the wicked and really saving humanity from itself, you just want to cheat the whole process, wipe some people out so the rest might learn some sorta lesson. This is just nonsense, punish a few innocent so the guilty get the hint huh??? Don’t think SO, sport! Count me against your wreckage. Coming to stop your destruction. Nothing else to be said. Action now, consequences damned. Better let someone know I’m on it.
-Rorschach

By: David Eklund

Graphic Comic Strip

Busiek, Kurt. Marvels. 1994. Four Issue Comic Compilation.

By: Perry Phetsadakone 

Advice-off, a battle of perception fought to the death, between Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach!

Two heroes ready and willing to solve your toughest dilemmas, whose opinions will you value most?

Sandy from Greensboro writes:

I am trying hard to relate to my husband on a spiritual and intimate level, but every time I try to connect, I feel like his mind is elsewhere. What should I do, is my marriage even worth saving?

Greetings and salutations Sandy,

First off let me explain the complexities of multitasking in an ever increasingly stressful world for your kind. You may think that your husband is not really there for you, I have some experience of my own in this area. I cannot comprehend why Laurie Juspeczyk did not feel more loved when I multiplied myself to be with her and continue working at the same time. In any event it simply appears as though you are taking his lack of interest far too personally, as humans often do. There is no need to change anything you are married and legally bound together, what more is there?

Sincerely Dr. Manhattan

Heya Sandy,

What Dr. fell-no-good over there writes is as logical as he is, it’s also as cold and dispassionate as he is too. My advice, find out what really going on, if your husbands’ not inta ya, than he’s definitely inta someone else. Get yourself a good private dick to get a workup for ya; you know follow your hubby around a bit find out where his mind and the rest of him are really focused. That’s what I say but hey, it’s your life sister.

Yours,

Rorschach

By: David Eklund-Grayum

The Hero's Behind The Mask

Doctor Manhattan

Abilities:

•  Control over matter
•    Telekinesis
•   Teleportation
•   Sees past, present, and future simultaneously. Although he cannot change the future because he says that everything to come is already predetermined.
• Superhuman Strength

Dr. Jonathan Osterman, a.k.a. Dr. Manhattan, was a physicist at Gila Flats Research Center in Arizona.  In 1959, Osterman accidentally got locked inside an Intrinsic Field Subtractor during a nuclear-physics experiment, where his atoms were smashed. he had left Janey’s watch in an Intrinsic Field Subtractor by accident. Over a period of a few months, he managed to reconstruct himself into Dr. Manhattan, a blue skinned superhuman.

Dr. Manhattan is the only member of the Watchmen  who has powers beyond the human capability. He has the ability to move through time. He knows what will happen in the future, but is unable to change it because he say the future is already predetermined. After his accident the U.S. government hired Manhattan as a government agent alongside The Comedian.  Manhattan was used by the government to end wars and military threats.

16 years after his accident, Manhattan became involved with Silk Spectre II (Laurie Juspeczyk). The Dr. devoted most of his time researching advanced technology development and physics research.

Silk Spectre

Abilities:

•   Athletic
•  Skilled in hand-to-hand fighting

Laurie Juspeczyk  also known as Silk Spectre II, is the daughter of the original Silk Spectre, Sally Jupiter and Blake Edward a.k.a. The Comedian. Sally pushed Laurie to follow in her footsteps in fighting crime. Her superhero career led her to a love affair with fellow superhero Dr. Manhattan.

When Keene Act of 1977 took place, Silk Spectre II was happy to retire her superhero ways. Being confined by the government to keep Dr. Manhattan happy, Juspeczyk relationship with Jon became a strain.

She came out of retirement in 1985 alongside Nite Owl to free Rorschach and help defeat a threat to kill millions of people.

Nite Owl

Abilities:

·         Master mechanic

·         Computer expert

Dan Dreiberg is the second Nite Owl who was inspired by Hollis Mason the first Nite Owl. When Dan’s mother died, he was left a great fortune which he invested into designing gadgets such as Archie, his owl ship, his owl suit and weapons to fight crime.  

While working briefly with the Crimebusters, Dreiber also worked alongside Rorschach to take on organized crime. When the Keene Act took place, Dan retired as Nite Owl and led a rather normal life afterward.

After Rorschach was arrested, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre came out of retirement together to bust out Rorschach and to help him stop a scheme that threatens to kill millions.

By: Yasmine Escudero

While Dr. Manhattan's Away, Night Owl & Silk Spectre Will Play.

October 24, 1985. Is there a love triangle budding up between Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre, and Night Owl. While Dr, Manhattan is still on Mars, Silk Spectre and Night Owl have been spotted back in costume and cleaning up the streets together. Silk Spectre and Night Owl were seen heading off in “Archie” to go break Rorschach out of jail and deal with the riot that had broken out. The three super heroes were seen leaving the jail together.







Hollis Mason also know to be the original Night Owl has passed away. A group of gang members known as "Knot-Tops" broke into Mason's house at nigh and proceeded to beat Mason to death. Sources say that the gang had members who where in the riot at the jail where Rorschach was busted out of. Speculations are that the gang mistook the new Night Owl for poor old Hollis Mason. Stay Informed with the next Watchmen News.

By: Alex Poulos

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By: Perry Phetsadakone 

Roarschach Apprehended By Police, and Dr. Manhattan Flees Earth.



October 16, 1985.Dr. Manhattan flees for Mars after the U.S. government takes the accusations of  him being responsible for cancer in his friends and colleagues seriously.



 Rorschach has been apprehended by the police after being caught at former costumed villain Moloch's house. He is being accused for the murder of Moloch and for attempting to flee the scene, Rorschach was injured while trying to flee the scene of the crime. Rorschach is out of costume and has been identified as Walter Kovacks.



A source informs us that Rorschach must have followed Moloch back to his house after seeing him leaving the late Edward Blake's funeral. Can this be a set up to frame the masked vigilante? or has Rorschach really murdered and old time villain? Stay informed with the next Watchmen News.

By: Alex Poulos

Graphic Comic Strip

Busiek, Kurt. Marvels. 1994. Four Issue Comic Compilation.

By: Perry Phetsadakone

The Heros Behind The Mask

The Comedian

Abilities:

§  Hand-to-Hand Combatant

§  Military trained

The Comedian also known as Edward Blake was the youngest of the Minutemen (a group of masked adventurers consisting of Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Ozymandias, Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice, Mothman, The Silhouette, Dollar Bill, and himself).  Blake left the group after having a violent altercation with The Silk Spectre aka Sally Jupitar. The Comedian was asked by Captain Metropolis in 1966 to join a new group of masked adventurers called Crimebusters, which disbanded shortly after

He later became a government mercenary after the Keene Act took place in the 70's and outlawed all superhero’s. The Comedian served in every major U.S. battle including the Vietnam war (where he acquired the large scar on his face) and was involved in ruthless top-secret operations.

Typically known as a brutally ravage masked man who has no sympathy for humanity. He thrived of chaos and had no trouble taking orders to kill people. Once he discovers a tragic plan to threaten thousands of lives, he breaks down and wants to do the right thing.

Rorschach

Abilities:

·         Used fear

·         Torturer

·         Detective

·         Lock-Picker

Rorschach, a.k.a. Walter Kovacs, is a masked vigilante. The son of an abusive mother who was a prostitute most of her life. Kovaks was taken away from his mother’s care and placed in a home for problem children, after attacking two boys and almost blinding one with a cigarette. At the age of 16 he began working for a dressmaker where he found a “ruined” dress which later becomes his inkblot mask.
After hearing of the brutal death of the dressmaker, he became ashamed with humanity and took to fighting crime. He is the enemy of New York criminals and police officers. Rorschach is ruthless, master of lock picking and improvising weapons, and extremely strong. Rorschach leaves a piece of paper with an inkblot at each crime scene he visits.
Rorschach investigates his theory that someone is out to kill all superheroes, after the death of the Comedian.

By: Yasmine Escudero



Watchmen News, The Place For Behind the Scenes Information on the Watchmen

October 12, 1985. Two police detectives investigate the murder of Edward Blake, who police state "was forced out of his apartment window by an unknown assailant". Edward Blake also thought to be known as The Comedian, a masked hero employed by the government, Died at age 67.

While police are still investigating, rumors of Rorschach, a masked vigilante who is wanted for many crimes himself, has been spotted "taking the investigation into his own hands". A source close to the Watchmen hero’s states that Rorschach has been seen with Dreiberg, also speculated to be known as the Night Owl. Could the Comedian’s death be the first of a masked hero killing spree, or could this just be another incident of Rorschach’s paranoia? Stay informed with the next edition of Watchmen News.

By: Alex Poulos