Watchmen episode 6’s title, “This Extraordinary Being,” is a direct quote from Under the Hood. He appears in only one scene in the 12-issue series, and the vast majority of what we know about him comes from a secondhand account: Under the Hood, the fictional memoir of Hollis Mason, aka Nite Owl. Who was Hooded Justice in the comics?įor a character who was the very first “superhero” of their alternate history of the United States, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons offered few details about Hooded Justice in their comic. But what’s fascinating about it isn’t just the change itself, but how expertly the folks behind HBO’s Watchmen knitted it into the canon of the Watchmen book. This is a big expansion on the original source material. America’s first costumed crime fighter, who inspired the other Minutemen to take up the life, was William Reeves, the childhood survivor of the destruction of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, and a queer black man. “This Extraordinary Being” reveals something that the original Watchmen comic stubbornly left a mystery: the identity of Hooded Justice.
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