He is intellectually, historically, politically dense.Īgain, it's the opposite of Watchmen. Someone invents the Doomsday Clock, to warn of impending nuclear war, and he says he wishes it could matter to him! This coming from a man who stopped a nuclear device from going off in New York, who's witnessed the effects of radiation poisoning first-hand! Everything to him comes down to superheroes: the Minutemen being disbanded, a Japanese kid dressed up as a comic book character, Dr. Hollis is so small-minded that he can only conceive of the world in terms of superheroes. Uh, Hollis, the guy was named after the Manhattan Project, there is a whole different set of historical events that should be coming to mind here! He remembers back on a Japanese kid dying of radiation poisoning during WWII, and his immediate thought is of what a lucky bastard Dr. What makes it worse is that Hollis Mason, and the book in general, is so completely small-minded. I'm pretty sure I've seen a golden age story with this same basic plot, the Japanese preparing a plot on American soil, the whitebread hero only stopping it with aid from "one of the good ones." But nowadays, this sort of thing is just cliche. This is the sort of story that would've been progressive in the 1940's, and I mean that literally. But on the other, the fact that a bunch of Japanese-Americans were about to set off a nuclear device in the Statue of Liberty helps justify the camps, doesn't it? And the monstrosity of using a nuclear bomb on a civilian population is mitigated by the reveal that the Japanese were willing and able to do the same thing to the US first. Yeah, on one hand, Cooke is banging the American guilt drum pretty heavily, what with the internment camps, and the government hushing everything up because a Japanese kid helped save them, and the image of the kid dying of radiation poisoning prefiguring Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
#Silk spectre statue series
This series has been executed so well it doesn't feel like a prequel or a fanfic anymore. This tearjerking sequence of words and images then happens: Then, in a freak twist of fate, Nite Owl is pinned down the stairs by the enemy he had shot to save Scout, forcing the kid to defuse a heavily radiated machine on his own. The Minutemen, although skeptical of the two, head for the Statue after the threat gets confirmed.Īs the Minutemen hold off enemy gunfire at the base of the statue, Bluecoat is shot and killed, leaving Scout and Nite Owl to disable the nuclear device. The target turns out to be the Statue of Liberty and the resulting radiation poisoning casualties, Bluecoat reports, would number in the thousands. The remaining Minutemen are just about ready to end the whole thing when they get an S.O.S from Bluecoat and Scout, a pair of heroes straight from the funny books who warn them of a Japanese plan to cause a meltdown in New York. Silk Spectre - Quit after having avenged Silhouette, by way of 'taking care' of the Liquidator.Ĭomedian - Currently wetworks operative for the U.S.
I love how Cooke really expanded her back-story - she's now one of my favorite characters.ĭollar Bill - Shot dead, revolving door incident. Here's what's happened during the series: Not because the writing is terrible (it's not), or the art is sub-par (like hell it is), but because at all times the story's either so distrurbing or heartbreaking or controversial that it's hard to find which pages to post (i.e., the villain known only as The Friend of the Children.)īefore Watchmen: Minutemen #5 gives us the team's last moment as a unit.
In a departure from the classic saying, this is the one series I can believe no one's posted yet.
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