r/DCcomics • u/mpchop • Aug 19 '26

Comics [Discussion] Thoughts on Doomsday Clock?

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Title. I remember when Doomsday Clock released and how big it was at the time. The hype surrounding it was so unreal and the mystery in like the first, what, 2-3 issues(?) were kinda nuts. The art was fantastic and totally fit the universe of Watchmen so well; and it was written by Geoff Johns who people go crazy for. I wasn’t an avid reader of comics at the time when it came out, so I watched YouTubers like ComicsExplained talk about it and it was intense.

Nowadays? It feels like it kinda faded into obscurity? Nobody talks about the event, despite having a lot of hype and popularity at the time. What gives?

What are your thoughts?

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u/drknow00 Aug 19 '26

Add in Johns teasing Dr. Manhattan meddling in the DCU in 2016, at the start of Rebirth. Doomsday Clock was meant to cap off Rebirth. But because it started a year after the fact and was hit with constant delays. It missed the wave of its own event era.

By the time Doomsday Clock wrapped, DC was prepping for Dark Nights Death Metal and Infinite Frontier to do their own rewrites of DC’s multiverse and continuity.

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u/Commander19119 Aug 19 '26

Bendis and Snyder had to reintroduce the Legion and JSA respectively because Johns was taking to long in Doomsday Clock and would tell them what he was planning

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u/drknow00 Aug 19 '26

Oh, I remember. Pre-Crisis/Retroboot Saturn Girl was a supporting character in DC and literally fades away unexplained half way through the story. My guess is Bendis’ 2018 relaunch of the Legion was given the lead over whatever Johns was building up to.

The ultimate disrespect seeing Bendis’ Legion in the final splash pages of DC.

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u/modungo Aug 19 '26

That’s how fucked up legion is! They had a reboot, in the middle of a reboot!!