![]() ![]() ![]() A few hours later, Adrian comes home to find her dead from overdose in their bed. His girlfriend, a sassy redhead by the name of Miranda, was feeling neglected and frustrated, so she went out to a club and ran into Moloch, who was peddling some serious drugs. The one detail that really stood out to me was the reason why Adrian first put on the cape and mask of Ozymandias. If anyone is going to make that kind of story-telling work, it’s Len Wein he was, after all, the editor for Watchmen, so he’s got a familiarity with the story. Dialogue from Watchmen is just weaved throughout, but it doesn’t feel redundant. Like I said earlier, we don’t really get anything new out of this story. He was ultimately created from the history of a man arrogant enough to believe he could control the world, why shouldn’t he leave the same sort of history behind? I decided not to get hung up on that, however Adrian is not dumb enough to leave evidence lying around, and he is definitely smart enough to believe in the power and necessity of history, which is ultimately why he is recording his story. Let us not forget, Adrian Veidt is not prone to dumb moves. I was a little put off at first he says in the first page that he is recording the events “that have led me to this moment… that I am not successful.” That seems like a dumb move even if he was successful, if someone found the record of what he had done, it would all be for naught. This issue is basically an expansion of the background story Adrian gave to his servants after he poisoned them in Watchmen: from his parents first arriving in NY, his childhood, their death and his travels in Alexander the Great’s footsteps, to when he first donned the Ozymandias costume. Ozymandias 1, happily, is a step back towards Minute Men we don’t learn anything new about Adrian Veidt, and that’s completely ok. The whole thing felt forced and unnecessary. ![]() Nite Owl 1 was a huge step backwards it invented a narrative which didn’t match the character traits it was meant to originate. Comedian 1 took that a step further by taking what we thought we knew and twisting it around, without losing sight of Moore’s original intent I thought it was exceptionally good. Silk Spectre 1 took character traits we knew and crafted a narrative to show us their origin it was a new story based on old facts, and it was very good. Minute Men 1 didn’t really offer anything new, it merely fleshed out character traits we were already familiar with, and that was just fine. Shelby: So far, Before Watchmen has been largely a success. Click here for complete Before Watchmen coverage (including release dates). Ozymandias is part of DC’s Before Watchmen prequel series. Today, Shelby and Patrick are discussing Ozymandias 1, originally released July 4th, 2012. ![]()
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