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I've only seen the film, and that was bloody years ago. But I predict not-Trump will have been helped into office by the KGB, though the Soviet Union will be portrayed as modern Russia and no longer "true to the spirit of Socialism", thanks to a new not-putin leader who lead a successful anti-Perestroika coup.

Rorshach will be like the current year Shadow. He will almost certainly beat up a neo-Nazi (wearing a badge of not-Trump) while lecturing him about how he's a scared little boy who can't handle seeing brown faces around him and women in positions above him.

The one who is the big CEO will be Elon Jobs, will have somehow bought a smartphone to market in 1992 (SJW's can't fathom a world with no twitter), will be the owner of a hyperloop network and seen to be preparing a Mars mission. If he didn't die in the book, anyway.

>>931556

>Rorshach lecturing about brown people.

Isn't he an Objectivist who beats the shit out of criminals and lets them die? Why would he give two shits about race? Shit his landlady accused him of being a neo nazi. He shits on his liberal pyschologist in the original comic.

From what I remember in that DC thread where this comic came out. The reporter was William F Buckley Jr. so wasn't he a conservative figure in the 80's and not the 90's. For the 90's I thought it would've been Pat Buchanan.

>>931558

And do you really expect Geoff-motherfucking-Jons to be that conscientious of the source material? You know, in leu of doing whatever he wants to make his story as edgy and violent as possible?

>>931649

But the Dark Knight Rises did bring about the Dank Age of Baneposting

>>931543

Given what I've seen in print so far:

>Rorschach has turned from an Objectivist or maybe an uncompromising right-wing degeneracy/crime annihilator (depending on your view of him) with a "hard life" background, to some guy angry at people who were quite a lot closer to his preferences displayed up until now, and seemingly having a feel for Ozy of all fucking people

>speaking of which why is he not disorganized atomic matter right now

>(CURRENT YEAR) politics…in 199X

SPECULATION

>Manhattan will give a shit about this situation for no apparent reason, probably something something Silk Spectre muh ex-wife

>Laurie won't use guns because of all the poor people who get shot in mass shootings despite ending of previous book where she starts implementing Comedian traits

>ultimately some kind of transition for the Watchmen into the DCU (oh lord)

This more or less is going to be a complete shit show. Pretty much everyone I know who has or had some comic interests at any point before 2010 is disgusted but not surprised about this.

>>931793

>I really can't decide which will be worse, making Rorschach a comic book hero

Well he did throw someone jacking off in public down an elevator well, it's a little aggressive but his heart is in the right place. I don't expect anything like that going forward though. Well, maybe he'll toss people who insult his landlady's son off a roof, who knows.

>changing Veidt into a mustache twirling villain

Veidt's power as an antagonist more or less rested on him having everything well in hand and being 5 steps ahead of everyone else. That works nicely in a world separated from the rest of DC. In one that's not? You have the fucking Batman for petes sake, Mr. "I've prepared 20 years for this exact contingency". And that's just a muscled normie, you have a range of very powerful supers on top of that who he will be hard pressed to defeat unless he has Manhattan with him. And beyond all these technical issues, you know he'll also be poorly written to cap it off.

>>931772

>(CURRENT YEAR) politics…in 199X

Speaking of which, who the fuck is supposed to be the President in the Watchmen universe right now? There's no way in hell Nixon's on his 6th term, and if they're trying to imply that it's Trump with the whole-in-one "joke", wouldn't he have been in the running with a completely different platform because it's 25 years early with a completely different political climate? Maybe it's Robert Redford.

Food for thought: who says that's actually Rorschach, since he's supposed to be fucking vaporized. Strikes me as the kind of easy twist moment that Johns would write. Really though, Doomsday Clock would probably be more interesting and not as intellectually insulting if was just another Crisis instead of a straightforward "sequel" to Watchmen that commits the holy sin of diminishing its predecesor's conclusion with comic book logic.

>>931782

>all that shit

>”In other news, two score sheep and a dozen virgins were sacrificed in Britain today as Alan Moore prepares a mighty curse for Geoff Johns, DC Comics, and the Time Warner media group.”

>>931830

>Really though, Doomsday Clock would probably be more interesting and not as intellectually insulting if was just another Crisis instead of a straightforward "sequel" to Watchmen that commits the holy sin of diminishing its predecesor's conclusion with comic book logic.

I was expecting it to be basically Infinite Crisis 2 before the ashcan came out. Now I'm just sad and mildly disgusted.

>>931830

>Food for thought: who says that's actually Rorschach, since he's supposed to be fucking vaporized. Strikes me as the kind of easy twist moment that Johns would write.

Rorschach copycats are a logical development but this doesn't feel like it will go down that route. Also that they would not feed ideologically into Walter Kovacs' preferences is too much of a stretch.

>>931784

>William F. Buckley Jr.

I thought Robert Redford's supposed to be Prez here.

>>931850

Alan Mores druidic revenge plot would be fucking amazing to read about as a comic.

>>932076

>I thought Robert Redford's supposed to be Prez here.

He said he's speaking on behalf of the president.

bump

>>931786

Thanks Anon

>>931813

But isn't Robert Redford a liberal? How would the current year politics work against him?

>>937491

Liberal canibalization.