You mess with Superman’s timeline and it effects everything. Here, however, Johns embellishes this idea with the importance of Superman to existence itself.
Again, not the newest of concepts, so why reiterate it in such an overblown manner? Once again, Superman saves the day, but when doesn’t he? And, how many times has it been Superman who’s flown in at the last minute and saved the DCU. He is the antithesis of the darkness and treated as some sort of scared cow in this story.Īnd, with all the various crises and reboots DC Comics has been through along the years, Superman is always there, and always will be. Superman is the shining light who will continue to shine throughout time and history and the DCU will forever react to that. And it is Superman who ultimately affects Doctor Manhattan and changes him profoundly. Indeed, at the very centre of all this DC Comics, there is and will always be Superman. There is a lot made in this Watchmen-aping final issue about darkness and not being able to see, but at the heart of it all is Superman. But, I suppose, it has also allowed Johns to play a bit more with the DCU. To repeat it here, and take 12 issues to do it seems decadent, to say the least. But, it didn’t take 12 issue to state this obvious truth. Seems a rather longwinded way of expressing an opinion on Superman that’s unoriginal and, arguably, better established in Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel (2014). In a universe where Doctor Manhattan sees no hope and no future, thanks to his absolute belief that all things are preordained, Superman offers that hope. Who knows how much of Johns’s original story survived to the end, but I think the central meta-concept revolving around Superman remained the same. I bet Doctor Manhattan never saw that one coming. And, it would seem, the grand design behind Doomsday Clock was sacrificed.
With Geoff Johns star waning at DC Comics and bigger status writers like Brian Michael Bendis and Scott Synder clearly champing at the bit to take up these much loved heroes, something had to give.
But, time moves on and publishing plans for both the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice Society of America needed to be acted upon.
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A series with grand intentions that seemed to have been derailed along the way, thanks to the delays that saw the book go from a monthly to a bi-monthly and attempt to hold DC Comics at a ransom as a result. (++WARNING: This review contains spoilers for Doomsday Clock #12 ++)Īnd so the curtain falls on Doomsday Clock.
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