WATCHMEN - The Comedian

Born in 1924, Edward Blake started out trying to clean up the New York waterfront in 1939. He joined the Minutemen after the team was formed in '39, but was expelled for trying to rape Sally Jupiter (Silk Spectre I) in 1940. After nearly getting killed in a fight in 1941, he switched his original costume for one of heavy leather. He then went on to fight in W.W.II in the Pacific theater, returning a hero. In 1949 he met with Sally Jupiter and ended up fathering Laurel Jane Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II). He was present at the Crimebusters meeting in 1966 (where Ozymandias first conceived his idea for saving the world from itself). At some point (possibly the late 50's) he became a government agent, working in Vietnam and rescuing the Iranian hostages. His career came to an end in 1985, when he discovered Ozymandias' island and the creature project housed there. Shortly after return to New York, Ozymandias killed the Comedian. As the Comedian, Edward Blake is deliberately amoral. As Dr. Manhattan puts it in Chapter 4, "Blake's different. He understands perfectly... and he doesn't care." Basically, the Comedian feels that life is a joke, thus, why worry? Rorschach states he admires Comedian for his worldview; his forceful, uncompromising personality, and the fact he didn't care if people liked him on not. Rorschach also commented Comedian was the one who understood where the world was going and what was happening to society. Quote: "Once you figure out what a a joke everything is, being the Comedian's the only thing that makes sense." The Comedian is a "normal" human. He is in fantastic shape (despite his age). Comedian's primary powers are his hand to hand combat skills and weapons. He normally carries two Colt M1911 pistols, a Ingram MAC-10 (with silencer), tear gas grenades, a knife, billy club. The Comedian is Edward Morgan Blake, who began his vigilante career in the 1940s as a teenager. Over the years, he became a patriotic hero for the United States. The Comedian was based on the Charlton Comics character Peac