WATCHPANELS, Part 9

 WATCHPANELS

One compulsive reader’s observations ...

after gazing into Watchmen for the umpteenth time

 PART THE NINTH

All right, I’ve got photons in my teeth and my wrist brace on ...

           Here on page 13 and everywhere in this chapter, Jon goes on and on about how beautiful Mars is without life ... but without life, who will see the beauty?

           Again, on page 18,  Jon raves about Mars’s “breathtaking” beauty while maintaining that "no life "is better.  You can’t have “breathtaking” without breath!

          Do you join me in feeling that Manhattan’s “revelation” is pretty dopey?  It’s not a miracle that “human coupling” produced Laurie; it would have produced SOMEBODY, duh!

9:28 – The epigraph has quotation marks in the comic (above), not in the bound editions (below).

            And now, my friends, we’re down to the final three chapters.

See you with something varied and thrilling on Monday!
  

Right On, America!

This celebration of collaborative American achievement appeared in the April 27, 1981 TIME magazine.

May your Independence Day be the stuff as dreams are made on!  See you on Thursday.