It wasn't quite warm enough, even with my coat on, to sit outside and read, but I did anyway, and read DC Entertainment's Doomsday Clock #1, though my fingers were close to numb by the time I finished.
Doomsday Clock is fine, and probably more than adequate as a sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. It's well-made and poses some questions that Geoff Johns will inevitably hammer to death. It's hard to say where this will go or how, exactly, a sequel to Watchmen connects to Clark Kent's nightmare about the deaths of Jonathan and Martha Kent at this point, but there are 11 more issues for Geoff Johns and Gary Frank to delve into these.
My hunch at the moment... Adrian is desperate to find Dr. Manhattan, with the world at the brink of nuclear annihilation after the collapse of Pax Ozymandias, because it will take a god to save the world from itself. My hunch is that what Adrian and his allies find will be an entirely different god-like being -- Superman. The point may be that the reason Earth-Watchmen is so bleak is that it is literally a World Without a Superman; they've never had Superman's example, borrowing from Grant Morrison and Zack Synder here, "to lead them into the light." The plot may well revolve around the existence of a Kal-El on Earth-Watchmen, probably a child or teen, and whose example he will follow -- Dr. Manhattan's cold indifference to humanity or Superman's deep compassion for humanity.
Also, I hope that the teaser image of Lex Luthor with Ozymandias' hand on his shoulder doesn't mean that Johns is undoing (or radically altering) the character work that's been done with Lex since Forever Evil. I like what DC has done with Lex, turning him into, essentially, Iron Man. I don't need Lex as a super-villain any more. He's much more interesting now than he's been since the late 80s/early 90s.
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