EW got the exclusive first look and preview pages of DC Comics' 'Before Watchmen: The Comedian" written by Brian Azzarello and art by J.G. Jones. Despite the controversial decision to create prequels to the classic landmark of "The Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, DC has winningly placed these these characters in the capable hands of their best talent. Here, the sociopath we all know and love, Edward Blake (aka The Comedian) is revealed to be close to the Kennedy family and we follow his life-changing exploits through the '60s. So close in deed that the First Lady herself employs Blake to take care of one pesky blonde in her life. DC explains the scope of Blake's prequel series:
“Each one of the ‘Before Watchmen’ books has a particular point of view, and The Comedianis political,” says DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio. The Watchmen world presents a version of post-WWII history that has been radically impacted as a result of super-heroes, “and The Comedian is smack dab in the middle of it,” says DiDio. “He’s the match that lights every fuse.” The character’s six-issues prequel evokes a tone and approach reminiscent of James Ellroy’s “Underworld USA Trilogy,” which examined sixties America from the perspective of the shady agents and seedy operatives that served and executed the wills, wishes and whims of the decade’s power elite. DiDio says that in Edward Blake, readers will meet a man who was once dazzled and even inspired by the idealism of “Kennedy Camelot”— for better and worse. ”It was the one thing he actually believed in. He will do anything for that family, to make sure they achieved what they believed in,” says DiDio. “It’s a very bittersweet story, because what you’re going to see is the creation of this cynical, almost psychopathic man. You see how events keep changing him, and pushing him down the path that turns him into the character that you’re familiar with from Watchmen.”
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