Doomsday Clock #12 (Of 12) 2nd Ptg

Doomsday Clock

by Geoff Johns

This is it! The final showdown between Dr. Manhattan and Superman shakes up the DC Universe to its very core! But can even the Man of Steel walk out from the shadow of Manhattan?

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Comic Book, Superheroes, Fiction, Superman

Comic

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.

His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.

Reviews

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Clock rings finally!


This is the comic book issue #12 and final, of the event “Doomsday Clock” that it was a maxiseries of 12 issues.


Creative Team:

Writer: Geoff Johns

Illustrator: Gary Frank


HOPE NEVER DIES… NOT IF YOU HAVE A SAY ABOUT IT

The final chapter of Doomsday Clock is here and it didn’t disappoint!

Since you won’t only have the conclusion of this event, but even priceless sneak preview comments of what’s coming to DC Universe in the incoming years!

The new Rorschach finds himself!

Dr. Manhattan finds a purpose!

Marionette and Mime find a new home!

Ozymandias finds to be the day’s savior… again!

Past and present are found… again!

Hope finds its way… again!

The DC Universe is never the same… again!

The never-ending battle for Truth and Justice…

…is just beginning…

…once again…

…and it will be…

…over and over!

Since hope won’t die…

…if you do your part about it!

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crazy ending. I think I have to re-read the whole series in one sitting to truly get it all. But there's some amazing moments in this final issue.

[Etienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ending for a series that had high and low but that is worth it in the long run. This issue is all about the series had to achieve. A wonderful face-off and a strong plot conclusion with some strange things and some hope. It also introduce what might be a very interesting characters if DC decide to keep him and put some time and series on him (I sure hope so!!!). I love it!

[Joey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful. Just lovely.

[Matthew Manchester · Rating 2 out of 5]

All that build-up for this????

That sucked and was confusing as hell.

[David Dalton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know this came out months ago. But this whole series has been on one delay or another for quite a while. So I figured, "what's the rush"? Great story and well worth the wait. Might have to pick up the collected edition (if they collect all 12 in one hardback volume).

[Emre Yavuz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beklediğimden çok daha iyi bir DC hikayesi, ayakları yere basıyor ama o kadar çok isim var ki bir noktadan sonra beyin yakabiliyor.
DC evrenine ve tarihine ne kadar hakim olursanız o kadar keyif alacağanız bir çizgi roman.

[Xavier Marturet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bad final issue.
Of course you have to close the arguments you opened in last 11 issues.
But remember: you have readers. They are not after an enciclopedia. They want a limited series, a thriller, a big unforgettable story.
And you, Geoff Johns, just worked to close the opened doors.

[Rogerio Lopes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bem a primeira coisa que pode-se dizer dessa HQ que fecha essa série, é que ele encerra magistralmente a trama apresentada, é um final amplamente satisfatório. Ainda assim a quantidade de referências e entrelaçamentos é estonteante, a HQ se refere literalmente a uma cronologia gigantesca e amarra os diversos universos que se propõe.
Em que se pese uma certa exaltação a figura simbólica do Superman, como contraponto direto ao Dr Manhattan é um antagonismo que funciona, ainda mais se considerarmos que em sua realidade original o Dr Manhattan era um símbolo de desespero.
A história vista como um todo, as 12 HQs conversam muito bem com Watchmen, e se por um lado o ritmo caí em alguns momentos, o conjunto é muito bem amarrado. Resta ainda dizer que a construção do novo Rorschach é muito bem feita e a finalização de sua história rende um dos momentos mais bonitos da HQ. É uma digna sequência para Watchmen que não fica a dever do original.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed it. Some interesting concepts. Didn't affect me deeply like Watchmen did. But great to see Dr Manhattan have a character arc.

[Mert · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 Stars (%91/100)

What a journey! What an ending! This is definitely one of the best graphic novels I've ever read so far. I admit there were some problems with the pacing that made people angry because each issue was released in 8 months or something. I am glad I waited all these years for this to end so I could binge read it. It is simply not possible to talk about this issue without spoiling anything but I loved it. I loved the idea of doomsday clock. Each character is unique and has so much depth. The little easter eggs and details also made it great. Brilliant series, definitely recommended.

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

At last, an uneven series comea to an end with an underwhelming finish. The clumsy subplots are largely tied up in self-important and overly convenient ways that make a lot of the series feel like arbitrary filler.

Perhaps one of the ironies of the series is that it reads like it should he faster and coalesces like it should have been a six-issue mini instead of maxiseries, but still ends up feeling cramped and rushed at points.

The best part of this issue is the panel layouts, which make great use of a few splash pages and include sole great transition effects, but all of those are in service of a climax that doesn't live up to its billing, so they're largely just pretty novelties.

In the end, the final issue is largely a mashup of advertisements for future plots in the DC universe that likely will no longer come to be due to changes at DC itself (so long 5G!), random preaching on the divisiveness of online social media, and some tonedeaf lecturing on why we just need hope and Can't-We-All-Just-Get-Along.

The series has its moments when it resembles Johns' Forever Evil universe crossovers, but ultimately loses itself living in the shadow of the original Watchmen.

[Kevin Miller · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very conflicted about this issue and the series as a whole. I count Watchmen among the best things I've ever read in any genre, so Johns is certainly treading on holy ground. Though I thought the first few issues showed promise, the long production delays certainly dampened my enthusiasm for the series, and it tended to devolve into a talkfest, as so many comics do these days. To be fair, I feel like I need to read issues 1-12 again in one sitting to get a better perspective on it all. I guess considering the seemingly insurmountable task he set for himself--melding together the world of Watchmen with the DC universe--Johns did an okay job. I felt some nice echoes of the old Crisis on Infinite Earths days, especially in this issue. But I'm not sure this peaked in the way it should have to reset the clock, as it were, going forward. I may upgrade my rating once I reread the series and some of the titles leading up to it.

[Leonard Chadwick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Distasteful business aspects of this project aside, we're left with a moderately entertaining bit of fanfiction. Johns delves into classic comic book cross-over tropes, with skill and style (but I'm unconvinced of whether there's any self-awareness), in order to explain away editorial decisions over several years of DC Comics continuity, which has become a bit of a tradition at DC. Doomsday Clock lacks any of the true depth Moore created in Watchmen, settling for a "can't we all just get along" moral that feels less than compelling. The art is quite good and it's certainly a quick read. So at least there's that.

[Christopher Ackers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well Worth The Wait

I cannot recall the last time I was as satisfied with the conclusion of a story as I was/am with this. I sit here, moved to tears. This series has been hamstrung by delays & interference from various alleged parties ( DC EDITORIAL ) & yet it has managed to be the best book I’ve read in ages. The conclusion of DOOMSDAY CLOCK has been everything I could have hoped for & far much more than I could’ve imagined.

[Steven Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best issue out of the 12 and Johns finally delivered. Frank's art has been superb throughout the series but this issue was a showcase for Johns writing; being able to tie up loose ends, introducing Bendis Legion and the JSA including their children was fantastic and bring back a feeling of hope with Superman and for the future. Lastly that last page was precious. It took a long time for the series to come out but that last issue made it worth the wait.

[Joe Bogue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid ending to an underwhelming series. Conclusion rambled a little, but managed to tie up loose ends. I get that it's a comic by Johns, but I'm disappointed that it sets up future stories (though that might explain the many, many production delays and solicit pushbacks). I would have preferred a more finite ending, but overall this was a pretty great final issue.

[José Vázquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doomsday Clock #12 nos debe recordar a todos que Jon es un dios gracias a sus habilidades, pero también nos debe recordar que es un ser humano con la capacidad de tomar decisiones y no dejarse llevar únicamente por el destino; y que al entender esto recuperó su humanidad y pudo salvar su mundo. Al final, esto es algo que podemos extrapolar a nuestra realidad.

[Sean Kottke · Rating 2 out of 5]

That's for the whole series. Who wore it better? HBO by a country mile, for sure. There was so much potential here for a trippy, meta narrative, and early issues portended something mind-blowing. The net result? A lot of multiverse blathering with a final outcome that didn't need all the half-developed sub-plots that crowded each issue or the co-opting of the Watchmen world to accomplish.

[Dave Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow...just...wow. THIS is exactly what I need in my comics and why I admire the writing of Geoff Johns so much. What an incredibly powerful ending to a series that should not have worked but not only did it work, it worked brilliantly and fixed so many things in the process!!! Absolutely brilliant!!!

[Rob Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

17 years later we get all the 12 issues. I was loving this series at the start but stopped caring because it took so, so, so, so, long. Also, not enough Rorschach. And then Geoff Johns goes on to Shazam. There are a lot of great comic writers out there right now but Geoff Johns doesn’t seem to be one of them anymore. His comics have no depth - they used to, now they don’t.

[Lucas Savio · Rating 5 out of 5]

um gibizinho complexo com inúmeras referencias mas que dr manhathan dá um show de explicação e fica um sentimento que nem eu sei explicar sem dar spoiler só leia isso acho que renderá coisas muito boas paa o futuro mas antes de tudo isso é uma grande homenagem ao universo dc é literamente um confronto com o pessimismo e o otimismo

[Benja Calderon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Si en Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan decide apoyar el nefasto, pero efectivo, plan de Ozymandias, en DoomsdayClock es la influencia del Hombre del Mañana que hará que Jon tome las riendas en el mundo que lo rodea, para hacerlo mejor

Una gran carta de amor a Superman. Si tuviera que resumir esta serie, sería eso, una gran carta de amor a Superman

[Keun-young Anthony Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complex read

I am not fully sure what just happened. But, it is an affirmation of Superman and a piece of wonderfully convoluted and intricately woven story-telling I love to see from Geoff Johns and the ever-talented DC writers/artists.

[Arun Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a brilliant ending to this mesmerizing series and all the answers to all the DC's crisis and the earlier mess it made through DC 52 series. And telling the formation of metaverse through the Superman is just amazing.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

GOOD STORY

Suprisingly, I actually liked the ending. I thought it would be different, but it was still a good story. I can't wait to see how everything unfolds in the future.

[Prof. Cue · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75/5 Stars

At long last....The ending to Doomsday Clock has finally arrived. I'd say this was a decent ending for the series.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a magnificent piece of art. Doomsday Clock is officially an ultra-modern classic.

[Rafael Arroyo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very disapointing last issue

[Derek Neveu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book would have been rated higher if it wasn’t for the fact that I had to constantly remember what was going on because the publication of this title was dragged out for so long.