someone explain, I'm too brainlet to understand
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Morrison does Watchmen
>When he was a boy, President Harley accidentally killed his father (A superhero named Yellowjacket)
>This causes Harley to become extremely depressed until one day at his father's grave he meets Captain Atom
>Captain Atom shows Harley the secrets of the universe
>Thanks to this, Harley facilitates the rise of superheroes in America
>After becoming President, Harley orchestrates his own assassination at the hands of the Peacemaker with the intention of Captain Atom bringing him back to life
>But Vice President Eden kills Captain Atom by implanting a black hole in his head and has Sarge Steel kill all the witnesses
>He also has Sarge Steel kill Peacemaker and his girlfriend to keep them from talking
>But before he finally dies, Captain Atom goes back and meets Harley in the graveyard causing all these events to happen in the first place
>And I think Captain Atom goes on to do some stuff in Final Crisis too, I dunno. Haven't read it yet.
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You don't need to understand to appreciate those gorgeous pencils and layout.
Unironically this. The entire issue is Morrison trying to condense Watchmen into its metaphorical base so the whole thing is told out of order (largely backwards) while also keeping a semi coherent narrative because that's what it's be like for Dr.Manhattan/Captain Atom to live amongst us. He can go to any point in time, like we can flip to any page in a comic if we ever needed to re read something to understand it better.
Also it has the best question ever. I still need to find out what thr fuck that color coded moral system he was ranting about was.
I can indeed appreciate those
Spiral Dynamics. Look it up; it's pretty nifty, actually.
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