I'm not responding to "noisetrigger" cause I've put him on ignore, for my own good. I refuse to take the bait and respond to his personal attacks, cause if I did so, I'd let loose a torrent of obscenities that would surely get me banned.
So, in case anyone else is interested in what I was discussing, and actually has two brain cells to rub together unlike noisetrigger, I'll continue.
Did Alan Moore CONFIRM 100% that Rold Muller was indeed Hooded Justice? No, he didn't have to. Because he implied through his writing, that yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Rolf Muller was Hooded Justice.
Alan Moore doesn't do anything by mistake. He's a meticulous creator. If he didn't want readers to conclude that Hooded Justice was indeed the circus strongman, he'd have never included that passage in the book. Hooded Justice was a tertiary throwaway character, but Alan Moore is so meticulous he even has backstories worked out for even minor characters.
Now if you're the kind of person that needs a creator to hold you by the hand and wipe your ass for you, then yeah, I suppose you could attempt to argue that Hooded Justice's real identity wasn't "confirmed."
But by that logic, Alan Moore never CONFIRMED that Hooded Justice wasn't really a time-traveling squid "alien" disguised in human form, so that's a valid possibility isn't it?
You don't get to pick and choose what's canon because you want to, or cause the TV said something, or cause the artist that drew Moore's script said so. Only Alan Moore gets to say what actually happened in Watchmen. That means whatever silly nonsense was printed by DC's corporate staff as "Before Watchmen" or "Doomsday Clock" doesn't matter. None of that is canon.
On the subject of Hooded Justice, the only stuff we have straight from the source is the actual book, and supplemental material that was published in collaboration with Moore as the Watchmen Role Playing Game Sourcebook.
Here's a page from the Annotated Watchmen that makes reference to the Sourcebook and confirms that Hooded Justice was not only Rolf Muller, but Ozymandias suspected that the Comedian himself killed him.
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And that's all I have to say about that. I'll let Moore's work speak for itself. Really is a stupid argument to have about a minor throwaway character, but I guess it just shows how desperate Lindeloff was to piggyback off of Watchmen's success that he'd resort to focusing on a minor character and then shoehorn the incessant race baiting into that character, even though it has nothing to do with anything.
