Was The The End Is Nigh Sign-carrying A Thing Before The Roche Case Or After? It Had To Have Been After,

Was the “the end is nigh” sign-carrying a thing before the Roche case or after? It had to have been after, right?

I used to have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that, even after discarding his life and identity as Walter, Rorschach still carried around the sign “as Walter.” Only because it just seemed so different to what had been established in my eyes? He’s a misanthropic loner who despises the general public and likely wouldn’t want attention drawn on him in any form because of his paranoia. And yet, he shuffles around with a giant sign during the day.

Maybe in an odd way it makes sense. Just like there’s two conflicting ideas of “everyone immoral deserves to suffer and most people are immoral” and “where there’s people there’s hope” /‘those lives are still worth protecting’ that make up his psyche, Walter still tries to be a hero in the form of the doomsday prophet. But in the most backhanded way possible, of course. Surely every time somebody asks him about the sign or “the cause” he gives a cryptic ass answer. “Two headed cat born in Queens. Today for certain”

But wouldn’t Rorschach JUDGE others for doing this exact same thing? Would he not immediately turn his nose up at a doomsday prophet? (Silly question, we know he’s a hypocrite) but still. Just seems so…obviously hypocritical, even to somebody as out of touch as Walter.

Was he hamming it up? Was this just a cover for him to snoop? If so, why not just “BE” Walter the whole time without the sign? If it’s the phenomenon of people refusing to look at him because he appears to be a typical crazy homeless man in their eyes, why does he need the sign at all? They’d ignore him anyway, surely?

Probably because he just wants to say “I told you so!” Moral duty instead of actual care…but of course, he certainly cared at the end.

TL;DR Why does that boy carry that cardboard? Because he’s passive aggressive

The way I would read this

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

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)

Just another funny aspect of his character. He had an eye for bold, colorful things.

And maybe it’s true the color and pattern of his suit was only out of convenience (I think it’s the same suit he was given at Charlton when he left at 17, going by the black and white photo) but I dunno I feel like he wouldn’t have worn it if he didn’t like it, regardless if he could or couldn’t afford another one

I like to think if things didn’t happen the way they did he would’ve had some striking choices in clothes

I mean we all have seen the concept art—-Mr full body latex suit

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