HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: First Look at Hooded Justice Revealed

The first look at one of Watchmen‘s caped crusaders has officially arrived, but with a bit of a twist.

A new photo shared by WatchmenBrazil has made its way online, which showcases a bit of in-universe promotional marketing used for the upcoming HBO series. The photo shows a Tulsa Rapid Electric Transit bus, which is wrapped in an advertisement promoting American Hero Story: Minutemen, alongside a photo of Hooded Justice.

This isn’t the first time that Hooded Justice has made his way into Watchmen‘s set photos, with a bus station ad featuring the same fictional show.

As Watchmen fans surely know, Hooded Justice was the very first masked vigilante, who eventually joined the Minutemen in the late 1930s. Hooded Justice didn’t have any real superpowers, but used his skills in hand-to-hand combat to fight crime. Hooded Justice was secretly gay, and his true identity was never entirely known, but he was suspected to be a circus strongman named Rolf Muller.

It certainly sounds like American Hero Story: Minutemen will be a sort of in-universe anthology show about various superheroes, similar to the American Crime Story and American Horror Story shows that currently exist today. In a way, that sort of approach to Watchmen‘s larger history works, especially as the series seems to be set long after the events of the original comic.

“We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbons created thirty years ago,” executive producer Damon Lindelof wrote in a previous social media post. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted.”

“They will, however, be remixed,” Lindelof continued. “Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them. Those original twelve issues are our Old Testament. When the New Testament came along it did not erase what came before it. Creation. The Garden of Eden. Abraham and Isaac. The Flood. It all happened. And so it will be with Watchmen. The Comedian died. Dan and Laurie fell in love. Ozymandias saved the world and Dr. Manhattan left it just after blowing Rorschach to pieces in the bitter cold of Antarctica.”

What do you think of how Hooded Justice factors into the Watchmen TV series? Would you watch American Hero Story: Minutemen? Share your thoughts with us in the comment below.

Watchmen is expected to debut sometime in 2019 on HBO.