A confused mixture of sighs and laughter ensued as I read Brian Doherty’s column on Reason Online titled “Rorschach Doesn’t Shrug: The Watchmen’s hero as Objectivist saint.” The entire premise of Doherty’s essay was an effort to paint Rorschach as the “moral center” of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen. Doherty, a published author and senior editor at Reason magazine, presented several examples of the bone-breaking and murder-friendly vigilante that framed him as someone to be admired instead of feared and pitied. Doherty reflected on Rorschach as a misunderstood but morally outstanding figure, smeared and misconstrued by whiny and weak liberals.…

Many of Eric Devlin’s nights are spent pouring over a sketchpad. His workroom is filled with flooding bookshelves, action figures standing guard and posters collected from various comic book conventions. A stereo fills the room with pounding rhythm as his pencil glides across paper—drawing life into the visual stories he loves to tell. Mr. Devlin’s love for comic books began at a young age. He immersed himself so deeply into the genre that he has trouble remembering what his first comic book was. “I am willing to bet it was a Spider-Man book though,” Mr. Devlin said. He recalls feeling…