Before Watchmen: Rorschach Is Pretty Bad.

Before Watchmen: Rorschach is pretty bad.

But I kinda love the weird romance between Nancy and Walter. Doesn’t make sense and shouldn’t be a thing Walter would even consider, but Nancy is cute and it’s very Rorschach to fall for a waitress (she gives him food, food = good person)

I just feel like if it were for money they would’ve hyped it long before now, y’know? Maybe the whole upheaval of the DC cinematic universe and all that drama lit a fire under their asses, so it’s being plopped out. Idk. Perhaps I’m just a pessimist

The purple pinstripe suit and his immediate attachment to the Rorschach dress makes me feel like in a different life Walter would’ve been fuckin slaying

I’m just glad I was wrong about it being a Doomsday Clock adaptation

What I’m not looking forward to is Rorschach’s voice. His voice was always described as monotone; nothing more, although the broken speech bubbles may have implied raspiness.

When Jackie Earle Haley played him in 2009 he opted to give him a gravely voice. This was most likely to ride the coattails of Christian Bale’s Batman voice, and in all likelihood Haley’s normal voice was just too sweet and soft for the character (seriously, listen to interviews with him). Of course, I love Haley, and I love his version of Rorschach, regardless of Snyder’s directing.

However the VA for the 2024 movie seems to just be copy-catting Haley for recognizably. Which is annoying to me, just because “gravely” was never what his voice “sounded” like to me in the book!

The closest was the Watchman Motion Comic’s narration. The narrator for that actually did an excellent job capturing the slow, monotone, emotionless tilt I always imagined in my head

Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis #1 - "Who Woofs the Woofmen" (2024)

by Kyle Starks

Good evening to Istvan Banyai’s Rorschach only