Before Watchmen Ozymandias #5 $4.50 Quantity
VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Len Wein, John Higgins (A) Jae Lee, John Higgins (CA) Jae Lee "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Date Available: 01/30/2013
BONUS REVIEW by Gary Owens
For Watchmen fans, the enigmatic Ozy is classic, a guy transformed in his beliefs through the Watchmen series, just as we saw other characters in Watchmen change themselves as well. I wasn’t a big fan of these books, since it meant theorizing, from the fog of how-we-got-there, what may have led some of the characters to act the way they do in The Watchmen. From my purist standpoint, that haze enhances good stand-alone stories, but Len Wein has done a fabulous job at making us, at least, aware of some of the unknowns in Watchmen, the prework that must have been done to get us to The Watchmen, which enhances that work, and is, really, the bottom line. Indeed, this smartest man in the world is, wonderfully, a great character study of hubris that I’ve seen in awhile. Though I do recommend it, I would say that if you haven’t read Watchmen, you probably should avoid this series until you do; this is maybe the only series that will probably diminish the enjoyment of The Watchmen if you haven’t read it first. But if you have, pick it up, and watch a superb storyteller at work. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Len Wein, John Higgins (A) Jae Lee, John Higgins (CA) Jae Lee "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Date Available: 01/30/2013
BONUS REVIEW by Gary Owens
For Watchmen fans, the enigmatic Ozy is classic, a guy transformed in his beliefs through the Watchmen series, just as we saw other characters in Watchmen change themselves as well. I wasn’t a big fan of these books, since it meant theorizing, from the fog of how-we-got-there, what may have led some of the characters to act the way they do in The Watchmen. From my purist standpoint, that haze enhances good stand-alone stories, but Len Wein has done a fabulous job at making us, at least, aware of some of the unknowns in Watchmen, the prework that must have been done to get us to The Watchmen, which enhances that work, and is, really, the bottom line. Indeed, this smartest man in the world is, wonderfully, a great character study of hubris that I’ve seen in awhile. Though I do recommend it, I would say that if you haven’t read Watchmen, you probably should avoid this series until you do; this is maybe the only series that will probably diminish the enjoyment of The Watchmen if you haven’t read it first. But if you have, pick it up, and watch a superb storyteller at work. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams |