Ozymandias is perhaps the most narrow of the various Before Watchmen books in terms of focus. Len Wein is wholly concerned with fleshing out the early years of Adrian Veidt, and the greater Watchmen universe only begins to intersect with Adrian's rise to power in issue #2. That single-minded approach could work well if Wein had anything new or exciting to say about his hero, but the central flaw with this mini-series is that it tells us remarkably little about Ozymandias we haven't read before.