Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3

Before Watchmen: Rorschach

by Brian Azzarello, John Higgins (Backup writer), Lee Bermejo (Illustrator)

“Brothers, this town is ours...” Plus, writer/artist JOHN HIGGINS brings you the latest chapter in saga of the CRIMSON CORSAIR!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Literature, Superheroes

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2012

About the author

Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".

Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).

In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.

As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.

information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...

Reviews

[Jedi JC Daquis · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is consistently good in Rorschach is Bermejo's art. This issue has the least words so far, and I devoted a significant amount of time appreciating the illustrations in all its dirty details and gritty realism.

I enjoyed reading the third issue way more than the first two, which I found awful. My enjoyment here is more of a guilty pleasure experience than a fan service happiness.

[Prof. Cue · Rating 1 out of 5]

0.5/5 stars.

I absolutely cannot stand how they characterized Rorschach in this comic. Like, honestly. I felt they made him weak, the waitress love interest was highly unnecessary as was the serial killer, (You could have told the story without them both), and I didn't like how they made the big bad this powerful person able to take down Rorschach, but then weak enough that he could be taken down by common street thugs.

The art style felt 'extra' as it were, and really didn't feel like it was doing Dave Gibbon's original art justice, and the paneling also didn't feel right.

There are problems with this comic all around, and I can't consider this story part of Watchmen canon.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

You can tell we're getting to the climax here, but like the second one, it had a ton of filler. I still enjoy the art immensely, so that is why I can't give it less stars. I am interested in what will happen with the waitress and if we'll get any sort of conclusion with The Bard's killings, which continue to be touched on but not resolved or seemingly even pursued by Rorschach. One thing I enjoyed here was the nod to Robert De Niro's character in "Taxi Driver" as the, you guessed it, taxi driver in this comic. That was neat.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably closer to 4.5 stars, but whatever. Just a solid single issue of Rorschach kicking ass and dropping cool narration. I’m sure many will get mad at the…crossover, but what can I say? I dig it. Maybe hinting at some fuckery on Doc Manhattan’s part? I guess we’ll see. To me, this is what Before Watchmen should be, if it’s gonna be anything at all.

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

"can i take you out to dinner?" he would not fucking say that.

[Patrícia Ferreira Neto · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5⭐

[Wisdom Wasp · Rating 3 out of 5]

An improvement on the last, good action, great art and a decent build of atmosphere and setup for the final issud

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Bard strikes again. Tension flares. Rorschach goes to the diner and asks Nancy, the waitress who took him to the hospital the night he got jumped, he asks her out for dinner to thank her. She gets off at eleven.
In the street, Rawhead and crew change strategy, they resolve to bait Rorschach into coming to them. Rorschach doesn't bite, until a city wide Blackout forces him to storm the gang's club.
He runs late and Nancy, alone in the middle of a Blackout, waiting for him, is easy prey for the Bard.

[Erikka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Steady improvement. Although you start to see how Rorschach ignores the good he sees because he is so focused on everyone being sick and depraved. He has a very twisted and pessimistic view of the world--I wish this prequel would have shown more of why. We know he had a crappy childhood, but more development would be nice.

[s e n t i m e n t a l i t i e s olittlebear · Rating 1 out of 5]

As far as I'm concerned, nothing happened in this. At all.

[Noel Manhattan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Increíble la cantidad de referencias a Taxi Driver.

[مصطفي سليمان · Rating 3 out of 5]

عدد رائع جدا وتصاعد للاحداث كويس قوي لو شالوا بس الخط المريب بتاع التاريخ دا

[M Pereira · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like how this story tries to give a little bit of insight into Walter Kovacs.

[Marc Pastor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bé pel cameo de Taxi Driver.