Dr. Manhattan

"In 1945, the bombs are falling on Japan, the cogs are falling on Brooklyn, seeds of the future, sown carelessly...

Without me, things would have been different. If the fat man hadn't crushed the watch, if I hadn't left it in the test chamber... Am I to blame then? Or the fat man? Or my father for choosing my career? Which of us is responsible? Who makes the world?

Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there...

I am standing on a balcony of pink sand, hardened to glass. It glitters in the ten-minute-old sunshine... I am standing on a fire escape in 1945, reaching out to stop my father, take the cogs and flywheels from him, piece them all together again...

...But it's too late, always has been, always will be too late."

-excerpts from Watchmen, Chapter IV: Watchmaker


Watchmen created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

The first of my Watchmen character drawings. I finally finished them all over Thanksgiving break. Each drawing is a portrait of the character, done in graphite and then added to with one color that matches each person. The centerpeice in front is something symbolic of each of them, while other symbolic objects fall in the background. I had to wait until I got back to school to submit them because I picked specific exceprts to go with each character, and left my copy of Watchmen at my dorm.

So, my Watchmen series number 1: Dr. Manhattan (aka Jon Osterman)


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Rorschach: [link]
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Ozymandias: [link]