| Team Name: | Watchmen |
| Publisher: | DC |
| 1st Appearance: | Watchmen #1 |
| Appears in: | 10 issues |
| Disbanded in: |
Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The grouping of heroes and villains contained in the work are not, in fact, named "The Watchmen", though they were at one point referred to as "Crimebusters". Rorschach, Nite Owl and Dr. Manhattan were the team's primary heroes. Edit
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The Death of a Comedian
The story of the watchman begins on Friday October 12, 1985 in New York City. Retired American diplomat Edward Blake was murdered, thrown through the window of his high-rise apartment onto the pavement down below. The police marvel at Blake's imposing size, and the sort of intruder it would take to beat and murder such a man. This particular murder has also caught the eye of trench coat-clad masked vigilante Rorschach. After the police leave Rorschach begins his own investigation. He a blood-splattered smiley-face button where Blake had died, and breaks into Blakes apartment to investigate further. There he notices that one of Blake's closets is a bit shallower than it should be. Locating a button inside the closet Rorschach finds the old costume and paraphenelia of Blake's super-hero alter ego The Comedian.
Rorschach then heads to the apartment of Dan Dreiberg. Now retired, Dreiberg was formerly the super-hero known as Nite Owl. Dreiberg arrives at home shortly after, having just come from visiting the home of the original Nite Owl, Hollis Mason. He discovers his former partner sitting at his kitchen table eating from a can of cold beans. Rorschach tosses Dreiberg the smiley-face badge he had picked up earlier that night. He explains to Dreiberg that Blake was the Comedian, and that he was recently murdered. Afraid of someone seeing them together, Dreiberg takes Rorschach into his delapidated Nite Owl workshop to further discuss matters. There Rorschach warns Dreiberg that someone may be targeting and killing retired masked heroes right before leaving. Deciding to "exercise" Rorschach visit's Happy Harry's bar and grill. He probes the terrified bartender for information about Blake's death when someone behind him unknowingly makes an off-hand comment. Rorschach proceedes to break two of the man's fingers in order to intimidate the bar patrons into talking. It was obvious that no one knew anything, and Rorschach took off again.
Next Rorschach visits the office of wealthy capitalist Adrian Veidt to give him the same warning. As with Dreiberg earlier Rorschach warns Veidt about the possibility of a mask killer. Once labeled the "smartest man in the world" as the hero Ozymandias, Veidt had given up being a vigilante right before the Keene Act made outlaws of their kind. He had since made a fortune and built an empire selling action figures and other memorabilia, publicly capitalizing on his former identity. As with Dreiberg, Veidt wonders if Blake's death was a politically motivated kill rather than being motivated by his former life. Rorschach downplays this possibility, saying that America's enemies wouldn't dare strike out against them with the power of Dr. Manhattan on their side. Having an obvious disdain for Veidt's "prostitution" Rorschach did not remain long and left to warn the next person on his list.
Reaching his next former associate would require sneaking past armed guards to break into the Rockefeller Military Research Center. There he found Dr. Manhattan Laurie Juspeczyk, formerly the Silk Spectre and daughter of the original Silk Specture Sally Jupiter. Rorschach muses at telling the "indestructable man that someone plans to murder him". He finds Dr. Manhattan, several stories tall and working on some research equipment, and Laurie with him. He explains to the two that Blake was dead, a fact that Manhattan was already aware of due to his work with the government. Manhattan is not concerned, indifferent about the difference between life and death. Juspeczyk seemed glad to hear the news as Blake had once attempted to rape her mother when they were on the same team. Laurie was getting upset at Rorschach's uninvited presence, and Dr. Manhattan teleported Rorschach outside the facility grounds before he was albe to finish explaining his cape-killer theory. Reminiscing about the past, Laurie wanted to visit Dan Dreiberg to catch up. Dr. Manhattan remained at the facility, determined to locate a gluino to validate a physics theory. As Rorschach stalks the rainy city he dwells on the Comedian's death, wondering if everyone else is correct in not caring, and reaffirming his resolve.
Laury and Dan get together for dinner to reminisce about old times, before the Keene Act. Dreiberg seemed depressed having had his glory days druged up earlier that day. With the Comedian dead they both felt like they were able to relax and laugh again as they hadn't done in a long time.
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