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Since the publisher planned to integrate Charlton's superheroes into the main DC Universe and the script would have made many of them unusable for future stories, series writer Alan Moore eventually agreed to create original characters. Moore later based the team’s predecessors, the Minutemen, on the Mighty Crusaders. These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, the Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and the Silk Spectre. Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 19. Before Watchmen: Minutemen might have added to the Watchmen universe, but Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre hurt the original product.The six main characters of the 1986 comic book limited series Watchmen (from left to right): Ozymandias, the second Silk Spectre, Doctor Manhattan, the Comedian (kneeling), the second Nite Owl, and Rorschach Though it was highly developed, the series should have been better planned and plotted. It might not be the worst of the Before Watchmen series, but it feels like it in comparison to the other half of this collection.īefore Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre is a great example of why Before Watchmen wasn’t a great idea.

Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre has little redeeming qualities. The great part of Watchmen is that it is dark and smart. Not only do we lose the great Darwyn Cooke art, but we get a really, really weak story. With a great first part, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre is such a letdown. The throwback art does a great job tying into the story and I wish that the rest of the series had been like this one. It has such a nice throwback to original art and that is why he works so well here (for a great example see his DC: The New Frontier). The story has a bit of a Watchmen feel with the twist ending and does a nice job exploring some underexplored Minutemen characters like Mothman. Not only do the events of the comic book tie into key events of the original Watchmen series, but also develops into something of its own. Before Watchmen: Minutemen was considered one of the high points of the Before Watchmen series, but Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre was considered one of the worst.īefore Watchmen: Minutemen embodies what the whole Before Watchmen series should have been. Written and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre collected the prequel series to Alan Moore’s classic Watchmen.

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Laurie Juspeczyk finds herself thrust into the role of Silk Spectre by her mother and runs off to San Francisco to find herself…which leads to battle with ruthless profiteer trying to force capitalism on the Free Love crowd. Hollis’ remembrance of the past leads to a discovery that the past might not be as clear as he thought. Hollis Mason begins to write his tell-all biography Under the Hood and finds himself reflecting on the time of Minutemen…and their downfall. Reprints Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-6 and Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1-4 (August 2012-March 2013).

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