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Panel 1: It isn’t necessarily obvious here, but the
artist, Ms. Hira Manish, is sketching what is under the tarp in the background. We will learn slightly more about her in the
back-matter for this chapter.
Panel 2: The
speaker is Max Shea, missing writer.
Shea’s remark that he is “admiring the coast of mosquitoes and
daydreaming about getting back to the mainland” is important. It obviously means these people are on an
island. The significance here is that
they are on the island Eddie Blake saw, the island – and, more importantly,
what he discovered there – that sent Blake, in a drunken stupor, to Moloch to
confess. Blake discovered the conspiracy
put in motion by Ozymandias. It
overwhelmed him, and, ultimately, it was this knowledge that got Blake killed.
Note
that the tanker ship in the background has a pyramid symbol on its prow, communicating
to us that Adrian Veidt, Ozymandias, is somehow involved with this as well.
Panel 4: Of
course, the story that Shea is reminiscing about is the pirate story the young
boy from the newsstand, Bernie, is reading – the same one we readers have also
been reading.
Panel 5: This
seemingly throwaway line: “…that
sequence where the young chew their way out of their mother’s womb…” is
actually important to the overall story of Watchmen, and its
significance will be revealed in the final chapter.
Panel 6: Shea’s final bit of dialogue in this panel –
“…let’s give the tyke a final once-over…” transitions directly into
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