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Interview with Rorschach writer Tom King

What’s the process like of taking Rorschach—a character distinctly tied to the mid-‘80s era of Watchmen—and telling a story that had relevance to you in 2020?

Things are crazy right now. I mean it’s insane; it’s driving people insane. And we have to talk about it; we have to try make things that are as good as all that bad that’s out there, or else we’ll just surrender to it and who wants to do that? The language of Rorschach is a language you can tell a story about a world like this in. It doesn’t work with Superman and Batman. Those are the wrong words. But Rorschach, he can talk to it, he can describe it, he can write it on a sign and march it down the street past all the heroes ignoring the truth that’s in front of them. The only way to write Rorschach is to be relevant.