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Panel 1: Veidt’s comment that the great thinkers from
ancient times entrusted their greatest secrets to “…their servants, buried
alive with them in sand-flooded chambers…” foreshadows what we will discover
two panels hence – that Veidt has killed his servants.
Panel 2: Note the clock, partially hidden in the
background, reads minutes to midnight.
Panel 3: And the perching of the butterfly on the
servant’s nose – with no reaction from the servant – reveals the ultimate fate
of these three men. The static nature of
the images in a comic is the one thing that allows for this delayed realization
– something that could not have been done convincingly in any other visual
medium.
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