Doomsday Clock #1: 10 Things Everyone Totally Missed

9. The Discarded File

Doomsday Clock Rorschach
DC Comics

As New York is being evacuated, we focus in towards a discarded file on the road. It's probably suggesting more than you might think.

It's evidently important too, as the inked panel was used as a teaser in the run up to release. And if Doomsday Clock is anything like Watchmen, then every minor detail is just as important as the main action on the page.

As such, when the 'camera' starts to zoom in and notes the discarded file on the road, it must have some sort of significance.

What's worth noting is poking out of the edges from within the file folder we can see the edges of a Rorschach ink blot test. Aside from the obvious Walter Kovacs a.k.a. Rorschach, the only other person in Watchmen who used them (and was seen often carrying a file folder) was in fact Doctor Malcolm Long, Kovacs' prison psychiatrist.

This might be a important thing to remember for one of our later points.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.