Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock kicked things up a whole other gear this week, with questions surrounding last month's return dominating conversation in the immediate wake of the book's second issue.
While Johns doesn't provide all the answers fans have been hoping for (we are only three issues in, after all), Doomsday Clock #3 has given everyone a good idea of its own place in the DC mythos, further carving out an identity that, while certainly derivative of the original Moore text, is every bit as new and unique as Johns said it would be back when it was first announced.
Batman's finally entered the scene, 'The Supermen Theory' has been blown wide open, and Doctor Manhattan is waiting in the wings to finally make an entrance.
And, seeing as how these recaps are turning into a regular event - and how the third issue came packed with plenty of twists and turns - it make sense to chronicle all the biggest things from this week's issue. Y'know, for the sake of posterity and all that.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
