Doomsday Clock Brings the Watchmen into the DC Universe

Watchmen is one of the best graphic novels of all time. However there has never been any official sequel. At least, not until this year. The sequel is called Doomsday Clock, and it’s going to incorporate both the Watchmen universe and the DC universe. It will be a 12 issue series, and the first issue will release on November 22nd,the day before Thanksgiving. We were given the first six pages at the recent New York Comic Con.

Doomsday Clock starts in 1992, and is either on November 22nd or 23rd,the narrator is unsure. The opening starts with a new sign, which says The End is Here, as a crowd storms Adrian Veidt’s building. This is a direct result of Rorschach’s journal being published at the end of Watchmen. We also see Adrian Veidt’s, AKA Ozymandias, getting his Antarctic base stormed into. While nobody is there, there is a scan of someone’s skull, and it seems they have a tumor. At the end of these pages we see a prison break, and before an inmate can steal the keys off an unconscious bodyguard, we see someone who shouldn’t be there. Seemingly back from the dead, it’s Rorschach, and the journal entry we’ve been reading the whole time is the newest entry in Rorschach’s journal. I’ve added the six released pages below.