Why a new origin for a ‘Watchmen’ character may be more tied to the comic books than it seems
In case Moore wasn’t being clear enough, he included in the series’ supplemental materials an editorial from the in-universe right-wing newspaper the, called “Honor is Like the Hawk: Sometimes It Must Go Hooded,” in which a blatantly racist editor favorably compares later superheroes to the Klan.
starts to seem deeply rooted in the original text. It also makes Episode Six’s audacious retcon of Hooded Justice all the more intriguing. As revealed in the episode , Hooded Justice — always assumed to be white given a bit of flesh visible beneath his eyes — was a black man, with a costume inspired by his own experience as a near-victim of a lynching, rather than a simply a sinister echo of those crimes.
If Moore hadn’t emotionally divorced himself from his early comic-book creations , he might have a particular appreciation for the way Episode Six uses one of his own oldest tricks. In Moore’s early-Eighties revamp of the British kids comic, he established that all of the character’s lighthearted, previously printed adventures were placating illusions fed to him in a sensory deprivation tank, and established an entirely new and far bleaker origin for the hero and his cohorts .
As a scholar of the medium, Moore was almost certainly aware of the Sterling North quote about superheroes and “hooded justice,” which comes from an infamous editorial that marked the start of a decade-and-a-half-long crusade against comic books. Moore’s own 2016 quote, meanwhile, confirms that he had long seen a disturbing potential link between Klansmen and supermen.
In any case, Episode Six’s twist turns Moore’s embedded criticism of masks and superheroics on its head. For all the moral ambiguity of the original, it’s pretty hard to read the comic books as pro-vigilantism; the show’s position is, at this point, harder to parse. Placing a black man at the birth of superheroics presents at least the potential for redemption of masks and vigilantism, offering the possibility of breaking the law to pursue otherwise unavailable justice for the oppressed.
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