While the final confrontation and Veidt's initial exposition were pretty awesome...the plot kinda struck me as a bit too crazy. If you're going to introduce the suspense of belief with nuclear experiments creating a god man, or a mere mortal catching bullets...why resort to the mass creation of a fake alien by a bunch of writers and artists? The motive was definitely interesting...but come on, seriously? Why not just go full distinguished mentally-challenged fellow and introduce a real alien. But like I said, ultimately this odd choice was saved by Veidt's ultimate plan. Finally, a mastermind "villain" who takes Nike's advice: just do it. For awhile I thought hmm, maybe Nite Owl and Rorschach can stop him. Nope.
That being said, the odd spaghetti monster plot was totally redeemed by the last page with the journal being found, and the stained shirt metaphor: the world is not saved because man is truly not saved - the clock has merely been reset. Nothing ever ends :/
And that seemed to be foreshadowed in the awesome pirate comic Bernard was reading. And on that note, I loved the exchange between the psychiatrist's wife and the white Bernard, after which he says what's the point of being nice if ultimately it doesn't matter - and then of course before being obliterated he winds up trying to protect the black Bernard, a parent-like gesture of caring that in real world terms doesn't matter (they still die) but is important nonetheless
