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WARNING : This article contains SPOILERS for up toDoomsday Clock # 4
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Doomsday Clock , DC ’s continuation to the classical comicWatchmenhas reveal thesecret identity of the new Rorschach . As some fans hypothesize , Doomsday Clock#4 confirms he is the child of a key ( but minor ) character from the originalWatchmenstory .
The first Rorschach , Walter Kovacs conk out at the remainder ofWatchmen , choosing to let Doctor Manhattan vote out him rather than be a political party to Adrian Veidt ’s confederacy ( to fetch about world peace by faking an exotic encroachment ) . The possible action chapter ofDoomsdayClock ’s first issuerevealed that Kovacs ' journal , detailing his discovery of Veidt ’s conspiracy before his decease , helped animate the investigating that reveal Veidt ’s plot to the world .
These issues also unveiled a newfangled Rorschach , who wasworking with Veidt to locate Doctor Manhattan , despite having a exonerated psychotic hate of Veidt . The only other info reader learn about the new Rorschach ( apart from his love for flannel cake ) was that he is African - American - a fact that was bring out when he took off his baseball glove and revealed his skin - colour as proof that he was NOT the original Rorschach .
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One popular fan theory that uprise in the aftermath of the first three emergence ofDoomsday Clockwas that the new Rorschach was related to Dr. Malcolm Long - the psychiatrist who examined Walter Kovacs after his arrest and the first person to whom he told the story of how he became Rorschach . Doomsday Clock # 4confirms the theory , revealing the new Rorschach ’s full name as Reggie Long - the son of Dr. Malcolm Long and his wife , Gloria .
The takings also reassert what had been hint at by a flashback in the last issue - that Reggie was on his way home from college to visit his parent when Adrian Veidt ’s fake alien " attack " New York City . One of the chiliad on the outskirts of Ground Zero who as driven crazy by the psychical attack that killed three - million people , Reggie was committed to an insane asylum . It was here that he met and befriended another case from the originalWatchmencomic - Byron Lewis , a.k.a . Mothman .
Lewis is shown as being able to elude the institution with comparative easiness , always being recaptured but still finagle to reconstruct work wings and retrieve materials from the outside world . It is on one of these trips that he retrieves the contents of Dr. Long ’s desk , including his note on Walter Kovacs , as a Christmas nowadays for a sorrowing Reggie .
say his sire ’s insight into the original Rorschach gives Reggie a much - needed focus , as does Byron Lewis ’s sweat to teach him all the tricks he learn from the other paladin in The Minutemen . Doomsday Clock # 4 ’s decision go on to show how Reggie escape the mental hospital , track down Adrian Veidt , and reluctantly join forces with him to keep open their world .
While the head of whether or not aWatchmensequel was necessary is indisputable to rage on for some prison term to come , it can not be denied thatDoomsday Clock # 4is a wonderful chip of character analysis . Geoff Johns ' handwriting does a virtuoso job of construct upon the classic tale while adding his own twists , and the nontextual matter by Gary Frank has n’t drop below phenomenal .
Final verdict will have to expect , but fans now have one less character to speculate on , and one more characterjourneyto discus .
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