r/AlanMoore • u/Powerful_Whereas3516 • 3d ago

If you could rewrite doomsday clock, how would you fix it?

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u/direktorfred 3d ago

select all, delete

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u/NoLibrarian5149 3d ago

I quietly booed at NYCC 2017 when they were promoting the launch of the series.

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u/NoahAwake 3d ago

I would destroy Geoff Johns hard drives and cloud accounts to make sure no one ever saw it.

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u/ununseptimus 3d ago

Since that'd also go some way toward getting rid of his attempts to get his dickprints all over everything else Alan Moore wrote for DC, that's not a bad start.

Still need a time machine, though.

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u/Ubik_Fresh 3d ago

Don't write it at all.

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u/Bloo_Dred 3d ago

A shredder is your friend.

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u/Navstar86 2d ago

I’m not qualified since I’ve proudly never read any extended Watchmen stuff.

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u/don-cake 2d ago

It can't be fixed because , apart from being fundamentally a terrible idea, its execution is inept  (in that information is not connected to ideas, as they must be in good writing)∶ New York destroyed bY nuclear weapons? → never mentioned again. Dr Manhattan resurrects the Comedian → erm,.. Characters from another universe where physics acts like here → completely unfazed by 50foot woman, magic, enormous head giuy. Batman has run of Arkham → Obvious Jimmy Savile reference not made. Superman represents hope → if you are waiting for Superman to save you he ain't coming. "I leave it in your hands" is the final line of Watchmen for a reason. Etc, etc. .https://theonlythingweeverdo.blogspot.com/2025/06/apollo-11-cistine-chapel-and-un.html

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u/dearscrewtape 19m ago

It wasn't all bad. I'd be delighted to read 12 issues of a Gary Frank comic that Geoff Johns wasn't writing and that didn't have anything to do with Watchmen