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Panel 1: Dave Gibbons utilizes a tall panel that
extends the full height of the comic page in order to offer a sense of scale to
the image. Again, the use of the 9-panel
grid throughout the story by Moore & Gibbons allows breaks from that 3x3
pattern to stand out and add impact when needed, such as this panel does.
Panel 3: The dire
tone of Rorschach’s journal entry – “…offices below, headstones…” and
“…oblivion gallops closer...” – is emphasized by the imagery – in particular,
the banner for the bands Pale Horse
and Krystalnacht.
Panel 5: This is the same corner where we saw Rorschach,
in the guise of Walter Kovacs, check his mail drop in Chapter V, page 12.
Panel 6: This envelope will surface later in the
story.
Also
note in Rorschach’s entry he makes the comment that “…[the] writing is on the
wall.” In the background of this image
we can see the writing in the form of
the Hiroshima lovers graffiti, which
accentuates the ominous tone of this comment.
Panel 7: Rorschach’s final journal comment about
leaving to try and take down Veidt “without complaint,” transitions directly
into
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