The ending of the book finds an editor at the New York based newspaper, New Frontiersman, looking for something with which to replace an article about Russia that was killed because of the change in the world’s political arena. Dreiberg and Juspeczyk assume new identities. Rorschach tells Manhattan that only killing him would prevent him from exposing Veidt Manhattan does so. Rorschach wants to reveal Veirdt’s plan, while almost everyone else feels it to be in the public interest not to do so. Veidt shares broadcasts that indicate the world’s superpowers are cooperating with each other due to having a new common enemy. Manhattan finds that his super powers have been limited. They find New York City in turmoil with death and ruins, along with a massive creature that had been made in Veidt’s labs, dead in the streets. Meanwhile, Manhattan and Juspeczyk, who have been on Mars, return to Earth. All of this was to keep his plan from being found out. He admits that he is responsible for The Comedian’s murder, for the cancer experienced by Manhattan’s friends and colleagues, an attempt on his own life, and the framing of Rorschach. When confronted by the pair, Veidt explains that his actions were designed as part of a plot to save the human race from inevitable nuclear war by staging an alien invasion in New York City. Nite Owl and Rorschach discover that Veidt might have been involved with the plot surrounding The Comedian. This bit of insight into the multifaceted nature of people has Manhattan becoming interested again in the human race. As the plot unfolds, it is revealed that Blake was Juspeczyk’s father. An attempted assassination is directed at Adrian, and Manhattan is framed for the murder of a former villain, Moloch.Juspeczyk and Dreiberg become romantically involved and return to their former personas as costumed vigilantes. Having been an important military power, his absence causes great political unrest, which includes the Soviet Union taking advantage of the situation to invade Afghanistan. Manhattan is accused of having caused cancer in some friends and fellow workers when the government looks into the situation, he flees to Mars. Dan Dreiberg, once the second Nite Owl Doctor Manhattan Laurie Juspeczyk, the second Silk Spectre and Adrian Veidt, formerly Ozmandias. Under the impression that a movement is underfoot to eliminate such adventurers, Rorschach contacts four of his fellow retired, costumed heroes. It is 1985 and Rorschach finds that Blake was also The Comedian, a hero who worked for the United States government. When there are no leads in the murder investigation into the death of Edward Blake, costume-wearing vigilante Rorschach decides to dig deeper than the New York City police department. In 1985, with the United States and the Soviet Union on the brink of World War III, the superheroes who are retired or government employees are coaxed back into action to aid in the investigation of a murder. The country is victorious in Vietnam and the Watergate conspiracy remains clandestine. While alternate universes are commonplace in the world of superheroes, Moore and Gibbons go beyond that, creating an alternate history in which the characters appear in the 1940s and 1960s their existence in those time periods changes American history. While straddling the line between novel and graphic novel, Watchmen encompasses fantasy, superhero fiction, adventure, and speculative fiction, while also serving as a satire of traditional superhero tales. Although it began as a twelve-installment series of comics published by industry giant DC Comics in 19, it endures as a cumulative collection as a trade paperback released in 1987. Watchmen is a genre blending work by illustrator Dave Gibbons and writer Alan Moore.
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