On the flip side of the law will be a tenacious detective whose attempts to foil the new Team Rorschach will take him down a dark rabbit hole that recalls not only otherworldly monsters and mystical visions, but also the various and ultimately doomed iterations of the Minutemen.
The killers will be aiming to take out the first political candidate set to take on Robert Redford’s extended-term presidency.
It also sounds like Rorschach will continue the metatextual approach to comic books that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons provided with their Black Freighter sub-narrative.
For the new comic series, Rorschach – or a copycat version, more likely – reappears in society as part of a duo of assassins with a very specific target in their metaphorical crosshairs.