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The Joker Comes To Doomsday Clock – 1984 Or 1992, It's All About Nostalgia

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The DC All Access video in which Geoff Johns talked through the first six pages of Doomsday Clock (below) also ended with some look at covers for Doomsday Clock #3… the Batman reading Rorschach's journal we'd previously seen. It is rather reminiscent of the prison guard reading the journal left behind in the cell in Kind Hearts And Coronets rather than Seymour in Watchmen.

The Joker Comes To Doomsday Clock – 1984 Or 1992, It's All About Nostalgia

A bottle of Victory gin being thrown at the wall and smashing.  Now this is interesting, the Watchmen comic features Gordon's Gin, which was a reference by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons to The Comedian being partially based on G. Gordon Liddy. However in the movie, they went with Winston's Gin instead, a reference to Winston Smith's tipple of choice in 1984, Victory Gin. Now being thrown against the wall in Doomsday Clock. Is this full circle?

 

The Joker Comes To Doomsday Clock – 1984 Or 1992, It's All About Nostalgia

Oh and, yes, The Joker. One of the three maybe? Putting on lipstick to a face mirror with Ozymandias'  Nostalgia perfume logo on the back – the same logo used by Mr Oz and his followers in the Superman comics.

The Joker Comes To Doomsday Clock – 1984 Or 1992, It's All About Nostalgia

And then Geoff talking about his first six pages of Doomsday Clock. You can read our take here…

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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