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September 19, 2012

Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3

Ok, wow. I was very harsh on the first issue of this series, it seemed pointless and over-polarised to me at the time but the second seemed a little stronger and started to turn me around with its work on women and sexuality. This third issue though is not only terrific on its own terms but it brings the issues before it up a notch or two with its revelations, really lending new importance to them with its ideas. I was dreading this issue, disappointed that it was the title up this week but I ended up finding it to be one of if not the best of the Before Watchmen books thus far and the clear title of the week. And that is a big maneuver for a book to make, I mean wow, OK?

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August 1, 2012

Before Watchmen: Nite-Owl #2

I’m honestly starting to think that the above title is a typo, that this was meant to be called Before Watchmen: Crimebusters or somesuch because honestly Nite-Owl is really not the focus here. Nite-Owl was always the most normal of the book’s characters, the straight guy to their super-heroics, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he should simply be skipped over or cheated on; especially not with his best friend and partner in crime – who, by the way, has his own book coming up soon – Rorschach. Not only is Rorschach given dominant position on the cover of this issue but he also dominates the interiors with monologues, flashbacks and an origin story all of his own while droopy Dan Dreiberg spends most of his present either pandering to the psychopath or staring wistfully at wet ground or gawking at nude women.