However, series writer and DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns declined to characterize it as such, viewing it as a “standalone” story.

[6] Although Dan DiDio (then DC's co-publisher) confirmed that it is a sequel to that miniseries,[1][2] Johns originally declined to characterize it as such, viewing it as a standalone story, saying, "It is something else.

[13] Doomsday Clock is the finale of the story that was established in DC Rebirth, officially concluding the storylines that began in the New 52 continuity.

In the Watchmen universe, seven years after the massacre in New York City, the details inside Rorschach's journal have been published, exposing Ozymandias's role in the event.

Other returning characters include the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, Mothman and Ozymandias, alongside Alfred Pennyworth, Batman, Black Adam, Firestorm, Johnny Thunder, Joker, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Pozhar, Saturn Girl, Superman and Wonder Woman.

He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guessWhat powerful but unrecorded raceOnce dwelt in that annihilated place.Various media mention the "Supermen Theory" and how it accuses the U. S. government of creating its own metahumans in order to expand its dominion around the world.

As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.Old newspapers report the murder of Carver Colman, a noir film actor who played the character "Nathaniel Dusk".

For better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Prior to committing suicide, Byron wrote letters to his sister who died in the New York massacre caused by Ozymandias.

The miracle is to walk on earth.Meanwhile, Black Adam offers asylum to every metahuman that was rejected by their respective governments after saving Creeper from being sacrificed by the Kobra organization.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.Among the evidence of Carver Colman's death, there was a letter from his mother which was later burnt by his maid to protect his secrets and save his acting career.

There was also a script describing the final scenes of Colman's last film, titled The Adjournment which a younger Johnny Thunder worked on the set of.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.Among the LexCorp files, there are "copies" of Manhattan's photo with his ex-girlfriend Janey Slater, alongside a picture of the first meeting between Barry Allen and Jay Garrick.

[26] Following the release of the final issue, Geoff Johns stated that he and Gary Frank were considering the possibility of a sequel for Doomsday Clock.