Status Updates From Watchmen

“For my part all those, resourceful sleuths and heroes offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was meant to. Nobody in Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?”

Honestly, I just don’t like the Black Freightor scenes. They unnecessarily complicate the reading experience, with little to no payoff. Maybe it will pickup at some point in the future, but I see little reason for it right now.

Dan is a scholar, writing articles about birds and their foreign abilities. Fantasizing about their magnificence. The Nite Owl makes these foreign abilities his own.

For Dan, being in costume is the source of his confidence. Without the costume, he’s constantly nostalgic about the old days and trying to downplay how much he misses it. He’s impotent and overthinks everything.

However, when the costume is on hes Nite Owl, always confident. He knows what to do and he does it. He has the ability to change the world. But it’s not so easy to take off the costume once it’s on.