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Ozmandias tells his life story in this book. As the smartest person alive he amasses great amounts of money to use for whatever whim's he has in trying to save the world or is he just trying to control it? He's arrogant and stoic but has an interesting compelling story. He's a loner and not easy to know. Ozmandias isn't only smart he's an extremely talented fighter. Learning in a dojo as a child how to combine his intelligence with his physical ability. He is a force to be reckoned with. I enjoy...
The Silk Spectre shows how it should have been done. Yet, it isn't as good because it all has been done and better in the book The Watchmen. At the very least this should have been done with complete disregard to the original text and given us an original story, all it does is remind us how good the original was, and hey can't we read that? Despite very good art by Jae Lee and scripting by Len Wien, a true master of the comic form, there is nothing new here, keep walking.
Astonishing! Jae Lee did an amazing work! This issue is pure art. Though I didn't liked Ozymandias as a character in Watchmen -for me it was the most disregarded character of the series-, this story is interesting and well-written.
A really but razonable look to the Ozymandias plan if you know the Watchmen Storyline, if you dont, then it will be the introduction to an epic moral history. Very recomendable.
Happy 2017! My first (Re)read this year is Before Watchmen: Ozymandias. This six-part series is written by Len Wein and illustrated by Jae Lee.We all know Adrian Veidt or Ozymandias as the one closest to being an antagonist in the Watchmen series. This guy, dubbed as the "smartest man of the world", the one who was the one responsible for (view spoiler)[millions of deaths at the end of Watchmen (hide spoiler)] is more than that. This origin story of Veidt adds more depth and ambition to his char...
Although verbose, this was a fantastic start.
Well this 4* rate is the mix of 3* for the script and 5* for the art. A little verbous, but I guess it goes with the main character, it is correctly packed but gives not much in the end, just like the Rorsach storyline in a way. Ozymandias' story as teenager/young adult is the very definition of cliché and gets more interesting in the second half only. The end seems to come a little bit too fast in my opinion.On the other hand Jae Lee's art is exquisite from beginning to end. Beautiful doesn't e...
He conocido a Jae Lee. Y por primera vez el guión ha pasado a un segundo plano. Mañana empezaré nuevamente el cómic como si no existieran los bocadillos. Solo para deleitarme sin distracciones con la exquisitez de Lee y con los colores de J Chung, Higgins y withmore. Es una pre-historía a Watchmen, textos un pelín largos y aburridos para mi gusto, pero, meAyuda a entender el hilo conductor de Watchmen, tan difícil, y sobre todo, a Veidt-Ozymandias.
2.5 estrellas. Guion de 1 estrella (simplón, superficial), dibujo de 4 estrellas.
"I MET A TRAVELER..." Chapter one chronicles the early beginnings of Adrian Veidt. How his parents moved to America and named him Alexander Adrian Veidt. Alexander after his father's greatest hero, Alexander of Macedonia. We see Adrian's genius early on. And after his parents die he quits school and gives away his inheritance and goes to Turkey to study Alexander, to find some answers by retracing the hero's path. Finding the right Illumination, he returns to New York and makes a killing on the
I really enjoyed reading the origin story of Ozymandias. I thought I would hate it because he's arrogant and annoying in the TV show. He was arrogant here too, but his brilliance made me like him a great deal. He was so smart from such an early age. And he used his intelligence to harm those who intended to harm him. And learning martial arts certainly didn't hurt either. I look forward to seeing how he avenges Miranda's death by overdose.
The beauty of Ozymandias as a character is that he’s an interesting guy who has traveled all the way around the spectrum back to boring. By being a Herculean uber-man, he’s also a bland cypher that no one really wants to get to know beyond a surface level. So it’s quite interesting to throw a romance at him. We’ll see how it plays out…
Illustrations were good and stories were not. The section on the crimson corsair was absolutely brutal to trudge through. I very poor imitation of the original Watchmen. I would only recommend this book if you are illiterate.
This series of back stories is brilliant in both style and content, reflecting back on the golden age of super heroes but with a critical eye.
Me encanto esta introducción al personaje de ozymandias.
I liked getting some back story into the character, and I really could relate to a lot of what happened to him as a kid, but I feel like I'd probably have to read more to feel the same sort of "charm" that I got from reading Watchmen.
Started out as one of the better BW stories - origin and backstory of the character but then issues 3-6 sadly turned into just expanding what was already covered in the original graphic novel. Could have been so much better.
The artwork is fantastic, classy, very art deco, the story is no so good
The telling of how he became Ozymandias. Not much interesting about it, It read for a moment a bit more like a love story than anything which made it rather boring all in all ..
Only because of the art. Which is nothing short of phenomenal.
