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Panels 1-2: These two panels mirror one another. Panel 1 shows Jon as he first enters the
bestiary at Gila Flats. The second one
shows us when he, as Dr. Manhattan, entered the bestiary in the previous
chapter, just before leaving for Mars.
It is interesting to note that Dr. Manhattan comments in panel 1 that
when he is remembering (from our point of view) this past event he feels a
sense of déjà vu as a result of having “seen this place before.” But that time before actually occurred almost
twenty-five years in the future, at the point in the previous chapter when he
retrieved the photograph before leaving Earth.
This is just another example of the quantum point of view Dr. Manhattan
has, seeing the future as past, and the past as present.
Panel 4: We discover that the pictures behind the bar,
from which Dr. Manhattan took his in chapter
III, are put there as remembrances of those who died at Gila Flats Research
Center.
Panel 5: Jon
says, “Other people seem to make all my moves for me.” This is accentuated when Janey replies with,
“Can I get you a drink?” making the first move, deciding for Jon what he might
like.
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