Number of Pages: 1064
Genre: Comics + Graphic Novels
Sub-Genre: Superheroes
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: DC Comics
Age Range: Adult
Author: Brian Azzarello & J Michael Straczynski & Len Wein
Language: English
About the Book
"Dive deeper into the world of Watchmen by following the famous characters around in their own solo stories. Witness Rorschach's story to see how one of the most dangerous vigilantes in the comics world started down his dark path. Find out how the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination revolve around the Comedian. Take an introspective look at Silk Spectre as she struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre. Find all of this and more when you discover what happened before Watchmen in Before Watchmen Omnibus"--
Book Synopsis
The New York Times best-selling prequels to the best-selling graphic novel Watchmen are collected together for the first time and in a special DC hardcover Omnibus! Takes a look at the world before the critically acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen, by some of comics' top talents, including Eisner Award-winning authors Brian Azzarello and Darwyn Cooke, multi-award winning authors Len Wein and Michael Straczynski. With art from Joe Kubert, Amanda Conner, J.G. Jones, Lee Bermejo, Adam Hughes, Jae Lee and John Higgins.
Dive deeper into the world of Watchmen by following the famous characters around in their own solo stories. Witness Rorschach's story to see how one of the most dangerous vigilantes in the comics world started down his dark path. Find out how the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination revolve around the Comedian. Take an introspective look at Silk Spectre as she struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre.
Find all of this and more when you discover what happened before Watchmen in Before Watchmen Omnibus. Collects Before Watchmen: Comedian #1-6, Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1-4, Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-6, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1-4, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1-4, Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1-4, Before Watchmen: Moloch #1-2, Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1-6, Before Watchmen: Crimson Corsair #1 and Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1.
Review Quotes
BEFORE WATCHMEN has been an unqualified success.--
Mtv Geek
Azzarello is a perfect fit to give someone as unbalanced as The Comedian a back story.
-- Huffington Post I should have realized that if there was any writer able to take a genuinely bad person and make him endearing, it's Azzarello.--IGN
About the Author
Brian Azzarello has been writing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. He is the author of
Johnny Double,
Batman: Broken City and the Harvey and Eisner award-winning
100 Bullets, all created in collaboration with artist Eduardo Risso. The
New York Times best-selling author's other work for DC includes the titles
Hellblazer and
Loveless (both with Marcelo Frusin),
Superman: For Tomorrow (with Jim Lee),
Joker and
Luthor (both with Lee Bermejo),
Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place (with Joe Kubert),
Filthy Rich (with Victor Santos), and most recently the all-new ongoing series
Wonder Woman (with Cliff Chiang) and
Dark Knight III: The Master Race with Frank Miller. He also wrote the Richard Corben-illustrated graphic novels
Cage and
Banner for Marvel Comics.