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While his run onBatmanmay be ending soon , author Tom King ’s future is looking brighter than ever , and now he ’s tease an especially exciting project inspired by one of the landmark comedian of all time : Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’Watchmen . But exactly what write up he ’ll be recount is a total whodunit .
It would n’t be the first time King has followed in Moore ’s stride , having previously written twoSwamp Thingstories for DC’sWinter Specialand the one - off " Brave and the Mold " team - up in Batman , both heavy influenced by Moore ’s run on the eccentric . Several of King ’s book , including the acclaimed and award - winningVisionandMister Miracle , are based on the nine - panel grid Moore famously used for most ofWatchmen . All of which makesKing ’s vamper that he ’s revisitingWatchmenas"research for a thing"a tantalizing mystery .
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King has shared the same interest in deconstructing supposal behind superhero stories – likeWatchmenexamined characters whose superhuman top executive and singleminded pursuance of justice turned them into something inhuman , King explore how heroes might contend with PTSD inHeroes in Crisis;VisionandOmega Men , part of his " Good Intentions Trilogy " with the Iraq War storySheriff of Babylon , showed heroes ' attempts to lay aside the world … and themselves blow up spectacularly .
This is n’t even the first fourth dimension King has write a book base directly on the events ofWatchmen : that would be 2017’sBatman / Flash crossoverThe Button , co - written with Joshua Williamson with art by Howard Porter and Jason Fabok . In that story , the two investigator examine the bloodstained smiley face clit that kicked offWatchmen ’s central murder mystery story , which had appeared in the Batcave during the previous year’sRebirthspecial . This set the level for Geoff Johns ' and Gary Frank’sDoomsday Clockminiseries , which they announced wouldbring the cast ofWatchmeninto the DC Universe , open up up some challenging possibility for the projection King is teasing .
Like thenew HBO series , it unfold in the aftermath of Moore and Gibbons ' classic , with Ozymandias ' plan utopia give after the publication of Rorschach ’s secret diary . Hoping to escape an incoming atomic state of war and find the missing Dr. Manhattan , several fiber , including a new Rorschach , flee to the DC Universe . The series went on to reveal that Manhattan was responsible for many of the changes in the DC Universe following 2011’sNew 52reboot , using his existence outside of time to forestall the sub of the WWII - epoch Golden Age from ever survive .
ThoughDoomsday Clockhas been delay many times over its run , the final exit is give out to arrive next month , and it may provide more brainwave into King ’s mysterious tweet . No matter what , it ’s a safe bet thatAlan Moore will not approveof another creator using his masterwork for anything .
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