Noahmishkin

“In 1965, worked with Nite Owl bringing street gangs under control. Tackled the Big Figure together. Brought down Underboss together. Good team.

Until he got soft, like rest. Until he quit.

No staying power. None of them. Except Comedian. Met him in 1966. Forceful personality. Didn't care if people liked him. Uncompromising. Admired that.

Of us all, he understood most. About world. About people. About society and what's happening to it.

Things everyone knows in gut. Things everyone too scared to face, too polite to talk about. He understood.

Understood man's capacity for horrors and never quit. Saw the world's black underbelly and never surrendered. Once man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn't exist.

No matter who orders him to look the other way.

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to.

We do it because we are compelled.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen