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Panel 7: The return of the “Black Freighter” captions,
which comment on this scene just after Dr. Manhattan transported himself to the
surface of Mars. “I slept . . . beneath
cold, distant stars” refers directly to the starscape in this panel.
The
phrase: “[A] distant god in whose hands the fate of Davidstown rested,” is also
a foreshadowing of the reality that the fate of the world will rest in the
hands of Dr. Manhattan, the closest thing to a god on earth we have in Watchmen.
“Was
he really there? Had he been there once,
but now departed?” is a commentary on Dr. Manhattan’s sudden disappearance from
this abandoned base
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