#watchmen walter

[itaroma42]

Nite Owl II: You told me you loved me.

Rorschach: Yes.

Nite Owl II: While you thought I was dying in your arms.

Rorschach: Yes.

Nite Owl II: Well, I'm still alive. Care to repeat that?

#danror #incorrect quotes: watchmen #rorschach #watchmen rorschach #nite owl #dan dreiberg #nite owl ii #watchmen nite owl #walter kovacs #watchmen walter #watchmen dan dreiberg

[artemisia-nova]

its october (his month)

check out my art on instagram!

#IM BACK hi<333333 #my art #rorschach #watchmen #walter kovacs #dc comics #dc fanart #watchmen fanart

[thegoddamnedwatchmen]

#B E H O L D #(this took a frustratingly long time to figure out how to make) #sparkle on its wednesday #watchmen #watchmen comic #rorschach #walter kovacs #walter joseph kovacs #doctor manhattan #dr. manhattan #dr manhattan #jon osterman #tw flashing #flashing gif #flashing #tw eye strain #exploding rorschach tag

[artbyblastweave]

There’s this one line in the first issue of Watchmen. This line in Rorschach’s monologue- “On Friday Night, A comedian died in New York. Nobody Cares. Nobody cares but me.” And it is such a perfect encapsulation of everything good and bad about Rorschach, and about superheroes conceptually. 

Yeah, Rorschach. Nobody does care. Nobody but you cares because everyone who even lightly knew this guy in a professional or personal capacity hates him. By almost every metric you can apply the world is better off without him in it- including by the metrics you apply, Rorschach, because if you were anywhere near as objective in your dispensation of justice as you think of yourself as, you’d have broken into his penthouse and done this yourself years ago. You are very pointedly the only person in the second issue who has no direct flashback involving a formative experience with The Comedian; your investment in him in pure projection. Dare I say, Rorschach-like.

And yet. Blake’s absolute scumminess isn’t why he was killed, was it? It isn’t why the cops are soft-pedalling the case (they claim that they’re afraid of getting Rorschach involved, but I’m personally more inclined to believe that the case just seemed Weird and Hard.) Blake’s death actually is the tip of a monstrous iceberg; Rorschach is completely correct in taking the killing as seriously as he does. But he can’t claim any special insight-it’s a broken clock situation, because he takes everything that seriously. And there’s an impulse to say that’s a good thing- except the fact that he only takes everything that seriously because he’s wrapped up in an insane, self-pitying, self-righteous self-image. It is important to him, that he is the only one who cares about this, because it gives him ground to disdain everyone else who doesn’t.

But at the end of the day, no matter how you arrive at it, the concept of solving every murder- of no death going unresolved, of no murder, of anyone, going uninvestigated- is, full stop, aspirational. It is a good thing to want and a good thing to work towards. And Rorschach, for all his insanity, is actually making some degree of headway. He very pointedly immediately figures out the hidden compartment holding Blake’s costume after being in the apartment for seconds; the cops talked in circles for several minutes and didn’t pick up on the discrepancy. He blunders down false trails, he engages in completely unhelpful violence that stood absolutely no chance of advancing the case, simply because he’s inclined to violence; and he pursues the mask-killer theory above all others because it flatters his self-image, his self-importance, his self-appointed role as the last cowboy. But I suspect that Ozymandias wouldn’t have bothered feeding the fire on the Mask-killer theory if there wasn’t a risk of Rorschach eventually figuring it out what was really going on. He got closer than anyone else just by virtue of trying at all.

Rorschach is the fantasy of someone, somewhere, Being On The Case, whatever the case may be; however tempting it may be to ignore The Case. Someone who cares, someone who’ll fight tooth and nail to get answers that absolutely should be gotten at. But he’s also the dark side of that- an examination of the kind of neurotic who would care, always, about all of it, the ways in which the caring would need to flatter and feed his ego to be sustainable, and the sheer amount of collateral damage all that caring would do to anyone the neurotic considered the cause of the problems he cares about. Here’s the price of a crusader who’ll stop at nothing- you’re stuck with a crusader who’ll stop at nothing. That is not a quality that exists in a vacuum. That is simply not the kind of nice idea you get to have, without an eye for how a person gets that way, how they stay that way, and how much damage they do.

#watchmen #watchmen analysis #rorshach #walter kovaks #thoughts #meta #comic books

[l-e-g-i-o-n-losh]

#watchmen #Rorschach #nite owl ii #daniel dreiberg #walter kovacs

[ekrixart]

can you fucking imagine how good it would be, can you imagine the beef-

#ekrixart #rorshach #watchmen #walter kovacs #the spot #across the spiderverse #into the spider verse #jonathan ohnn #i want them to kill eachother so bad

[saintjudasi]

normal civilians

#watchmen #nite owl #dan dreiberg #rorschach #walter kovacs #rivalz.png #ignore that i misspelt rorschach i was too focused on mimicking his handwriting

[thornheartless]

Gently holds him, like a ferret

#thorn talks #i started reading the watchmen companion book #i am reading the like. gm manual for who watches the watchmen and i am enthralled with this image of rorschach just standing there #watchmen #watchmen companion #watchmen: who watches the watchmen? #watchmen comic #watchmen rorschach #walter kovacs #dc #dc comics #dc universe

[sansapilled]

this came to me in a dream

#dr manhattan #jon osterman #walter kovacs #rorschach #watchmen #the spot #jonathan ohnn #astv #also jon and jonathan 🤝

[crabjest]

We are so back

This issue makes me so insane ESPECIALLY this sequence. My god. Alan Moore was cooking in the studio.

#watchmen #Rorschach #walter kovacs #crabjestart

[teratocore]

Dan accusing Rorschach of not being that sentimental while after the Comedians murder Dan was the one he checked up on first is wild. No, Dan, he’s not sentimental about the other Watchmen, he’s obsessed with you specifically. He literally brings up the fact that he still knows his way around your lair from when you two were partners, and actively resents the fact that you quit while he kept going.

#personal #Rorschach #nite owl #danror #dan dreiberg #walter kovacs #watchmen #also ozymandias calling ror a sociopath like no he’s just a weirdo

[itaroma42]

[At the grocery store]

Rorschach [Just as a new song plays]: ‘You look wonderful tonight’. Dan: Me?

Rorschach: Mhm.

Dan: Oh! Thanks-

Rorschach: The song.

Dan: Oh... I thought you were complimenting me.

Rorschach: No, never.

#danror #incorrect quotes: watchmen #watchmen incorrect quotes #daniel dreiberg #dan dreiberg #watchmen dan dreiberg #watchmen rorschach #watchmen walter #watchmen nite owl #nite owl #rorschach #walter kovacs #unus annus #unus annus incorrect quotes

[koroa]

just trying something different...

#rorschach #the watchmen #walter kovacs #rainbow #he got a RAINBOW SHOWER #because he probably needs a shower #right?

[thegoddamnedwatchmen]

(text post source)

#watchmemes #text post meme #danror #dan dreiberg #nite owl #nite owl ii #walter kovacs #walter joseph kovacs #rorschach #laurie juspeczyk #watchmen #watchmen comic

[the-crowned-rat]

Rorschach Watchmen my beloved :) I’ve been super swamped with work but I managed to bust this out quickly.

#my art #digital art #art #rorschach #watchmen rorschach #watchmen #timelapse #walter kovacs

[osamatographe]

ror

#Watchmen #rorschach #Walter Kovacs #forgot to post it here