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It may sound weird but I think Tom King’s ‘Rorschach’ run might work because it has so little to do with ‘Watchmen’. At its heart it’s a 70s style political thriller; the nameless protagonist investigates an attempted political candidate on behalf of the campaign that doesn’t trusts the FBI learning about the would be assassins lives and fringe beliefs. It’s just that those beliefs center around space squids and they chose to wear a Rorschach mask when doing the deed that narratively links it to ‘Watchmen’ and those would be easy details to swap out Thematically it feels a lot like ‘Watchmen’, a cynical exploration of politics and the meaning of super-heroics. It feels like King gets it more than most people who quote Ozymandias. #Reading #Comics