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Panel 2: Roth’s dialogue, “am I starting to make you
feel uncomfortable?” plays out over a scene with Dan holding one of the
bloodied gang members by the shirt collar while Laurie crushes the scrotum of
another, the pain evident on the punk’s face.
This
scene – the final part of their violent encounter – is awash in red.
Panel 4: More text/image juxtaposition as Roth’s
dialogue, “. . . from where I’m standing, it’s starting to look pretty
conclusive” is a comment on the conclusion of Dan and Laurie’s altercation with
these gang members.
Panel 5: Although Dr. Manhattan can see all points in
his life – past, present, and future – and has already experienced them all, he
has no ability to change what happens, because – as I rudimentarily understand
quantum physics – he is “in the moment” so to speak, even if he saw this moment
twenty years in our linear past.
Panel 6: And again, “the show’s over” is a comment on the
fact that the rest of the knot-tops have run off, leaving their fellow members
lying in the alley as Dan and Laurie survey the scene.
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