DC chief editor at the time, Dick Giordano, loved the field … with the exception of the stars. Giordano had started his career as a comic artist at Charlton, he therefore had a “paternal affection” for these characters, by Moore.
“”[Giordano] Really, I really didn’t want to give baby to the butchers, and don’t go wrong, that’s what it would have been, “Moore told the comic book. In addition, if” Watchmen “played Charlton’s characters, who would limit what DC could do with them in subsequent stories. Giordano asked Moore and Gibbons to create original characters Feel that “Watchmen” worked instead, and in the aftermath, following Moore.
“Finally, I realized that if I wrote the substitute characters enough, so that […] Some aspects of them have brought back a kind of generic resonance of superheroes or familiarity to the reader, so that could work, “Moore explained to the comic book artist.
Moore and Gibbons have always used Charlton’s characters as plans for the “Watchmen”. Rorschach is the question: a paranoid detective with a fedora and a mask. The face of the question is a virgin skin mask, while Rorschach is a stroke of ink; He (like the objectivist Ditko) sees the world in black and white. Nite-Howl is Blue Beetle, an inventor on the theme of animals with an aeroglener. There were two blue beetles (Ted Kord had supplanted the original Dan Garrett), and therefore there were two Nite-Howls: Dan Dreiberg, and the former original Nite-Howl, Hollis Mason.
Doctor Manhattan is based on the Atom nuclear propulsion captain, and the most intelligent man in the world, Ozymandias, is Peter Cannon aka Thunderbolt (who could use unexploited parts of his brain). Silk Specter replaced Nightshade as a female leader in the book, but Moore has certainly registered more on the DC Black Canary heroine.
Finally, the murdered superhero has evolved from Christopher Smith / Peacemaker to Edward Blake / The Comedian.
