Before Watchmen: Part II

Rorschach, unfortunately, disappointed me sorely. Perhaps the heightened expectations of the backstory of a character so warped in his perception of the world and yet so scarily close to understanding how it works along with an iron clad grip on the principles he lives by (even if they are seem twisted by the context they appear in) were bound to be met with disillusionment. Rorschach’s story is hardly about his own past, sadly. The plot covers a Rorschach’s revenge on a gang which beat him nearly to death on their first encounter as their boss, Rawhead or Crime as he called himself, planned to hunt down the masked crusader. What results is Rorschach’s systematic take down of all his enemies. There’s almost nothing striking about the depiction or the art. The only way to tell you’re reading about Rorschach is the narrative style picked up from the original cannon but without the dense yet profound dialogues. In essence, the less said about this volume, the better.

Watch this space for the final take on the last remaining volumes of the mixed bag that was Before Watchmen.