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Panel 1: On the side of the street where the news
vendor is we see the Institute for Extraspatial Studies, another facet of this
world – and more specifically this intersection – that will become more
important in ensuing chapters.
Also,
the canister against which the young boy is resting is actually one of the
charging stations for the electric cars that pepper the landscape of this
world.
Panel 2: Bernie’s remark, “I absorb information” is
played against the caption from the “Black Freighter” that “Birds were eating
[Bosun Ridley’s] thoughts and memories.”
Panel 4: Bernie’s remark, “See, everything’s
connected” is apropos since everything within Watchmen is connected to
this very intersection where he sits.
More
juxtaposition as Bernie’s dialogue – “He don’t retreat from reality” is played
against the caption box’s statement, “I begged that they should take my eyes,
thus sparing me further horrors.”
Also
note that the page in the comic, which we see over the young Bernie’s shoulder,
is the cone that we will be reading in these next few panels.
Panel 5: “. . . unable to bear my circumstances” is
juxtaposed against “The weight o’ the world’s on him, but does he quit? Nah!”
A sentiment that is accentuated as we pull in on
Panel 6: and we see Bernie’s remark,
“He’s a survivor” over the close-up image of the only survivor in the opening
of this “Black Freighter” tale.
Panel 7: Again, the dialogue (Bernie “coping” with a
late delivery from Nova Express) and
the “Black Freighter” captions (the survivor stating that his “misfortunes were
small: I was alive . . .”) play against one another.
It is
also noteworthy that the sneakers being worn by the young Bernie are Veidt
models. Adrian Veidt has his hand in
everything in this world.
Panel 8: Bernie’s remark about thriving on “disaster”
plays against the caption box’s “. . . I knew that life had no worse news to
offer me” and leads right into
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