Roleplaying the Apocalypse

The Dark Herald finally says out loud what all sane people who read The Watchmen have knows for years and years, but that the prevailing narrative of leftydom has been pretending was not the case the entire time.

Rorschach was indeed, the only character who had the concept of honour and ethics, and above all, Justice. Pretty much all the fictional heroes I ever liked have that as their prime characteristic.

The old DC Heros RPG game used to have little index cards for each of the known characters of the DC Universe, and in it they had various attributes. Aside the usual Strength, Intelligence and whatever was an attribute that was I think called Primary Motivation (I could be wrong about the descriptor, it was a long time ago), anyway, pretty much the only comic book character I ever read at the time anymore was Jonah Hex, and his Primary Motivation was perfectly stated: Seeking Justice.

The other fictional graphic novel character I relate even more to, Dago, has really the same motivation, coupled with a really unhealthy curiosity and a decided lack of fear/wisdom about the kinds of things he ends up getting involved in because of that combination of traits, which in the case of Sago is a lot more fully developed since the character has been going for over 4 decades I think.

Batman was a poor substitute to me, since he never killed anyone, and that made no sense to me. The Joker tries to kill of (and usually does) bunches of people and Bruce Wayne just gives him a bit of a beating. What? Jonah Hex would have strung him up to the nearest tree and watched him choke out to make sure he was dead. Dago would have run him through with sword and dagger and kicked his gasping into the nearest open sewer.

And Rorschach.

As far as I am aware, only these three comic book supposed anti-heroes, ever really had an honest concept of Justice.

And it is funny to me that Alan Moore, the noted super-woke artist who plagiarised the character, in his attempt at making Rorschach into a crazed and bloodthirsty nut, failed so spectacularly that he didn’t realise that most normal people empathised with him the most.

There is, of course, another thing about Alan Moore, [Correction: it was probably Frank Miller my brother spoke of, since Sin City is his creation, but Moore and Miller know each other and are apparently friends] which my brother pointed out, as we both read most of his graphic novels, and that is that my brother recons (rightly in my opinion) that Moore has a very severe case of what is known as “Captain save-a-whore”. In some of the Sin City stories, the protagonist literally looks like Moore, disgustingly shaggy hair and beard and all, except he can fight; and of course, it’s some tragic whore-saving story.

Of course, I don’t know any details about Moore’s life at all, (or Miller’s and I enjoyed Miller’s works) nor do I care, but given how he looks, I can imagine how he might have gone about getting some intimacy and affection throughout his life. I’m just saying. After all, write what you know, eh?