Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestMidnight, November 2, 1985. Most of New York City has been devastated by the psychic trauma caused by the instant death of Ozymandias’ teleported “alien.” Dr. Manhattan and heavily distraught Laurie tour the devastation. After they have seen enough, the two teleport away to the South Pole, to follow a trail of tachyon particles that Dr. Manhattan senses will lead to the source of the disturbance.
When his former colleague is murdered, outlawed vigilante Rorschach investigates a conspiracy targeting past and present superheroes, uncovering dark ties to their shared past with dire consequences for the future.
Direction
Literal panel-for-panel Dave Gibbons worship.
Acting
Stechschulte's Rorschach will haunt your internal monologue.
Production
Motion comics shouldn't work this well. Heresy, but true.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was technically released episodically on iTunes before physical media, making it one of the first prestige streaming experiments.
The motion comic format sparked fierce debates about whether this counts as 'real' adaptation—Moore probably hates it, which means it's probably good.
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