![]() ![]() Those who responded to Gardner’s call to come out of the shadows included other early heroes Dollar Bill, Mothman, Silhouette, Mason’s original Nite Owl, the first Silk Spectre (Laurie’s mom), and a young Edward Blake/The Comedian. Assembling the team was spearheaded by a former Marine named Nelson Gardner, who put his tactical skills and vast wealth toward reinventing himself as Captain Metropolis. And so, the golden age of regular-people-pretending-be-superheroes was born.Įventually, someone thought to bring all these newly minted “mystery men”-and women-together. ![]() The exploits of Hooded Justice quickly attracted the attention of the press, inspiring others-like Mason, the original Nite Owl-to don their own costumes and exact a similar brand of vigilante justice. ![]() It’s here we learn how a mystery man with a wrestler’s build, his face totally hidden by a mask, became an instant legend in late-‘30s New York, after foiling a series of robberies and attempted homicides by brutally attacking the perpetrators. In fact, what little is known about him is relayed secondhand, largely around the margins of the comic, through excerpts from Hollis Mason’s fictional memoir, Under The Hood. He’s a good choice for some showrunner to spin their own narrative around, since Hooded Justice remains one of the most inscrutable figures in the entire Watchmen mythology, even to its characters. As Agent Petey informs us in his Peteypedia files, the fictional series’ first season covered the life of Rorschach, which Petey laments was filtered through “a sensationalistic hyper-pop narrative that plays recklessly with history.” (In case it’s not obvious, Watchmen also uses American Hero Story to offer a wry critique of itself.) In the show, American Hero Story’s second season has just premiered, this time dramatizing the early days of pioneering crimefighting team The Minutemen as told through the permanently obscured eyes of Hooded Justice. The unexpected detour into superhero porn hails from American Hero Story, the Ryan Murphy-esque show-within-the-show that occasionally delves into Watchmen history, albeit with some fairly liberal dramatic license. vigilante Hooded Justice passionately taking another masked man from behind. Also, there’s gotta be something a little pervy going on with Lube Man, right? Still, even these few stolen moments didn’t fully prepare us for this week’s scene of costumed penetration, wherein the elder Wade ( Tim Blake Nelson) sits down to a baked-bean dinner in front of his TV, just in time to catch O.G. Episode five even opens with a young Wade Tillman being fellated inside a carnival funhouse. We’ve watched as Laurie Blake (Jean Smart) fondled a Doctor Manhattan dildo, shortly before engaging in a secret motel rendezvous with Agent Petey. We’ve seen Angela (Regina King) and her husband do it in a closet. So far, Watchmen hasn’t exactly been demure when it comes to sex-it’s not TV, it’s HBO, after all. ![]()
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