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Panel 1: The newscaster commenting on the people going
insane – specifically, the pregnant woman who believed her unborn child was
eating her and terminated the pregnancy (we can assume from the context) – is
an example of how the programmed brain of the psychic within Veidt’s monster
influenced the populace.
Panel 5: The “RBACHEV” mentioned in one of the
dialogue balloons is Mikhail Gorbachev – at the time, General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and de factor ruler of Russia.
Panel 7: To emphasize, symbolically, Veidt’s triumph,
we see him proclaiming his victory in front of the painting of Alexander’s
triumph at solving the puzzle of the Gordian Knot – linking these two more
closely, as both Alexander and Veidt were able, it appears, to solve their
specific Gordian Knots.
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