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Discover what happened before WATCHMEN as writer J. Michael Straczynski is joined by Andy Kubert and the legendary Joe Kubert to take flight with the gadget-savvy vigilante known as Nite Owl! And then in BEFORE WATCHMEN: DR. MANHATTAN, JMS teams with fan-favorite artist Adam Hughes on the all-powerful super-man Dr. Manhattan. For Dr. Manhattan, past, present, and future are one and the same. But as he observes the events of his life, do they remain the same? Or are they changed? The very fact of his existence may have altered the nature of what will or will not be...
Collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL #1-4 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: DR. MANHATTAN #1-4.
- Sales Rank: #306065 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-24
- Released on: 2014-06-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.10" h x .40" w x 6.70" l, 1.07 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Review
"Signing up two generations' worth of legendary artists [Joe and Andy Kubert] is a wise move for DC Entertainment."—NY Daily News
"J. Michael Straczynski's writing is crisp and keeps the story moving -- he's clearly not trying to "rewrite" the original Moore material, but instead builds off on it."—Mtv Geek
About the Author
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI has worked in television, comics and, most recently, motion pictures. In comics, he is known for The Amazing Spider-Man, The Twelve, Thor and Silver Surfer: Requiem, as well as SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE Volumes 1 & 2 and BEFORE WATCHMEN for DC Comics. He is the creator of the hit TV series Babylon 5, and was nominated for the 2009 Best Writer Eisner Award. In movies, he is known for writing films including Changeling, Thor and a forthcoming reinterpretation of Forbidden Planet.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Pleasantly Surprised at this Collection!
By L. Henry Dowell-Playwright
This is my first review of the BEFORE WATCHMEN series. Let me establish a few things quickly.
1. I love Watchmen. Even though many young, internet savvy twenty-nothings refer to it as a "graphic novel", it wasn't. Not originally. It was a twelve issue comic book series published in 1986-87. It WAS collected into one volume in 1987 and has seen many subsequent reprinting's since that time.
2. I love Alan Moore. Watchmen. V for Vendetta. The Killing Joke. Swamp Thing. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He brings a sophistication to comic books that it usually reserved for more serious works of fiction. He wasn't the first to do this and he most certainly wasn't the last but he was and is an excellent writer who not only takes his job very serious but believes comic books can be much more than a few minutes worth of escapism. He deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon him for his work. However, having said that...
3. Alan Moore can be a real jerk. Much of the work he has built his career on has been taking other people's characters and presenting them in a new fashion. There's nothing wrong with that. BUT BOY DOES HE GET TICKED IF SOMEONE ELSE DARES TOUCH HIS WORK!
4. Alan Moore didn't create these characters. Every one of the WATCHMEN are modified versions of the Charlton characters. Some are modified only slightly. Not to take away from what he did do with them, which was to craft a very elaborate murder mystery and deconstruct the idea of the superhero and make them real, living, breathing human beings with all the baggage that goes along with that. But he didn't create them.
5. I hate what DC Comics has become. I haven't purchased a single New 52 comic and was content not to support the destruction of a comic universe I had followed for nearly 40 years. In fact, I viewed BEFORE WATCHMEN as just another bad idea in a long list of bad ideas by DC Management. However...
6. I enjoyed this collection. I had waited a long time to buy this. Feeling, like many other "old timers" that Watchmen had achieved a sacred cow status and needed neither prequel or sequel. Finally, my love for the characters of Watchmen got the better of me. I am happy to report that as far as this particular group of stories is concerned, I was wrong. This collection does a good job of filling in a few of the blanks from Watchmen without attempting to re-invent the wheel. I won't cover plot points in this review except to say I enjoyed playing connect the dots with events both large and small from Watchmen. I really get the feeling that these particular issues were approached with great reverence to Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons and the original series.
If you are a Watchmen fan, I do not think this collection will disappoint you. It is quite good and worthy of 5 stars.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Another mixed bag of "Before Watchmen," but worth reading just for Dr. Manhattan
By J. A Magill
In the great debate regarding DC's decision to launch "Before Watchmen," I remain committedly agnostic. I understand the view of those who see Moore and Gibson's creations as unique, not only for their place in the evolution of the comic as an art form but also, perhaps, as characters meant to occupy a singular storyline and go no further. And yes, one should understandably fear the possibility - hyperbole intentional - of these stories feeling like "Hamlet - the Prequel." At the same time, characters passing from one creative team to another lays at the very DNA of superhero comics, part of what makes it a form unlike any other. After all, Moore and Gibson originally imagined their story populated by the Charlton Comics' characters (The Question, Blue Beatle, Captain Atom, etc) before deciding on creating a cast all their own. Just as Gaiman "adopted" the New Gods and made something new and exciting, and Kirby and Shuster's Captain America passed into Brubaker's loving hands, should The Minutemen be any different?
So how is "Before Watchmen: Nite Owl & Dr. Manhattan"? Not as bad as many feared, but given the talent of those involved, probably not as good as it should have been. Indeed, of the "Before Watchmen" books, no other so combines the good and the bad of the effort.
Nite Owl certainly represents a missed opportunity. Michael Straczynski, usually one of my favorite comic writers for his excellent dialogue and bright characterizations here mostly just seems to phone in a prequel/origin story. Wealthy Daniel Drieberg's motivations for donning the cowl read like boiler plate serial stuff. His early days being trained by the original Nite Owl give the reader a similar sense of having "been there, done that." In terms of the one bit of new character insight that the book does deliver... well, if you've spent the last few decades wondering as to the why of Daniel's particular and peculiar sexual dysfunction, this is your lucky day! Question answered. Perhaps I speak for no other readers, but I'd really have preferred a story that mined the rich vein of Nite Owl and Rorschach's complex relationship.
On the flip side, Dr. Manhattan represents some of the most original storytelling in this whole endeavor. Straczynski here embraces the constraints writing a prequel, shining a whole new light on a story that we saw in the original book, Dr. Manhattan's origin. Here we see it conceived of, not as an unalterable linear path, but as a series of decisions, each of which could have taken the good doctor into a far different life. (A note here: some will object at liberties taken, since in the original story Manhattan embraced determinism and explained that he has no choice, that none of us do, and that the only difference between his god-like power and we ants is that he "can see the strings." To those who feel the need to wail and froth about this writerly choice, I say get over yourself). Dr. Manhattan's choices are often interesting and usually inspired by the most quotidian of motivations (and you thought the world was saved before because the good doctor had a weakness for jail bait?!). Would we have liked Dr. Jon Osterman? Could it be that he had as much potential as a mere human as he did as a near-god? Could the whole Watchmen universe really begin at the series end?
By the by, Adam Hughes' art work serves this particular series quite well. His style, so smooth and seemingly effortless, harkens back to much of the beauty in Gibbons' original while still making it wholly his own. And of course, while I could of course do with fewer giant blue shlong levitating about, Hughes doesn't, um, overwork the image.
These various "splits" as the story branches as decision points give the reader a wonderful insight into Dr. Manhattan's essential humanity. That humanity, so crucial to Watchmen's plot, just delights. And so we get thoughts of loss. Questions of what it means to be human, an examination of the profound prison that is loneliness. One can also spot any number of interesting Freudian Easter Eggs that seek to deepen the meaning of otherwise minor points in Moore and Gibson's original. I especially liked Dr. Manhattan's interactions with the world's smartest man, Ozymandias (no more significant that "the world's smartest ant"). This scene as much as any in the whole of this project served to enrich the larger Watchmen universe.
As with other of the Watchmen collections, this one includes a shorter back up story, in this case the two-issue "Moloch." For those who don't recall, Moloch serves as the catch all super-villain in the Watchmen universe. He wasn't all that interesting in the Moore/Gibson original, save in that he demonstrated that age could render villains every bit as pathetic as any hero. As with Nite Owl, this book leaves one wondering why it needed to exist at all. We get a lot of back story, answering questions we probably didn't need answered. As is the current default origin story for comic villains, we learn that Moloch's background was tragic and that we should feel sorry for him. All that being said, this story does contain a few bright lights. As with Dr. Manhattan, Straczynski again demonstrates a flair for writing Ozymandias, one which makes me wish he'd been given that book (see my review). Moloch and Ozymandias's interactions deepen both characters, giving the former some much needed agency and making the latter still creepier (making Ozymandias creepier seems to be a major theme running through much of Before Watchmen). Eduardo Risso's art also fits this story beautifully, hisstyle and muted colors exuding a certain neo-gothic feel that evokes dark fairytales.
While not the best "Before Watchmen" chapter, "Nite Owl & Dr. Midnight" mostly holds its own and certainly isn't the worst. Still, as with much of this enterprise, this book is too often a sad reminder of what might have been.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl/ Dr. Manhattan
By Kindle Customer
I highly enjoyed reading this graphic novel. I'll start with Nite Owl. From what I understand about the Before Watchmen novels it goes into each hero's past and we get to know them a little better. Nite Owl's past was pretty satisfactory. You get a glimpse into his childhood and find out why he becomes the current Nite Owl. I was happy that the writer of this story included the Twilight lady. She appeared in the original Watchmen novel in Dan's dream which left me wondering who was this woman. I felt that this writer should had done the background story for Rorschach. I read Before Watchmen: Comedian/ Rorschach and was sorely disappointed in both stories. This writer not only went into Nite Owl's past but Rorschach's as well. The other graphic novel was like reading a crime bust any of the characters would do. Next is Dr. Manhattan. I really liked his story. Not only did you go into the past but you go into all these alternate possibilities. His story goes into the what if I did things this way or that way. I won't go into details too much it would take to long to try and even type this down plus, for me, to put into words just too much info. Very interesting read. You also find out about Viedt during the Dr. Manhattan story. Lastly, a small story about the villain Molch. Of course you find out about his past and how he tries to redeem himself you find out more about Viedt in this story too.
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