8. The Comedian's Back, And Doctor Manhattan Saved Him
DC Comics/Gary Frank
The Comedian's back, and no, he isn't some imposter. This one, is the real deal.
While it's a move that's bound to rattle fans perturbed by DC's continued use of the Watchmen license, the fact that the character is back surely intimates Doomsday Clock's scale. Not only that, but the reveal also gave us our first look at Manhattan in the mainstream DCU, a full thirty-odd years before the events of Doomsday Clock take place.
It's a major alteration to the original Watchmen storyline, and while its implications are both wide and unnerving, it remains to be seen just why, exactly, Manhattan brought Edward Blake to the DC Universe, or even when he did in the first place.
No doubt we'll get the answer in the issues to come, but considering Blake made a target of Veidt and Luthor in the second issue, there could all be a wider plan at play here.
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.
