It may seem a small difference between this book and more successful issues of Before Watchmen, but it is an important one. While those issues either invented entirely new stories or portrayed scenes implied in the original Watchmen in an interesting, meaningful way (thereby illustrating that we didn't really know the things we thought we knew), this book just laces together things of which we already had accurate understandings. As such, this story is just a paraphrase of the original series and is one of the weaker installments of the Before Watchmen initiative. Read Full Review

More of an explanatory conclusion that leads right into Watchmen. This book could have been called “Right Before Watchmen”. Read Full Review

Watchmen project finally concludes this week, and the biggest disappointment of Ozymandias is that the world's smartest man can't inspire any original ideas. Len Wein is basically retelling parts of the original Watchmen here without adding any new codas or perspective. Read Full Review