One compulsive reader’s observations ...
after gazing into Watchmen for the umpteenth time
PART
THE SEVENTH
All right, I’ve got photons in my
teeth and my wrist brace on ...
On page 2,
the chapter title is in quotation marks in the comic, but has no quotation
marks in bound versions.
What is
Laurie holding in her right hand?
Maybe
it’s a “pack” of tobacco balls, as in Janey Slater’s “three packs a day” in
3:6:3?
In the first panel of page 10, both of
Laurie’s hands are in “Curt Swan style” – reference my blog post
http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/curt-swan-gave-us-fingers.html?m=0
Panel 3 of page 11 Dan's Kitchen Clock. As seen in
3:8:6, Dan’s kitchen clock is on 24-hour time.
17:58 = 5:58PM.
Page 13: In
Watchmen’s
New York, there’s an Astrodome, although on our Earth it’s in Houston.
On the other hand, the fact that the
announcer specifies “the New York Astrodome” here and on the next page implies
there MIGHT be more than one.
Likewise on page 13: In
Annotated
Watchmen, Leslie Klinger makes a silly statement.
He says, “The song playing is part of Dan’s
record collection.”
Where does this
left-field guess come from?
Where in
Watchmen
are we provided with a list of Dan’s records?
MORE TO THE
POINT:
It seems that Klinger wasn’t
paying attention.
It is obvious that
“Unforgettable” is coming from the TV, the soundtrack music for A DANG TV
COMMERCIAL.
The “voice balloon” of the
song is even pointing to the TV screen in panels 8 and 9 – and referenced in
the commercial’s voiceover on 1
st panel of the next page.
On page 20, When Dan
says “get myself straight,” does he know that it’s a common druggie term for
“smoothing things out” by getting a fix?
Page 23: Now we see
the New York Astrodome for ourselves.
In the supplemental material at the back, we
are meant to assume that the “sick friend in Maine,” whom Dan was visiting, was
Byron Lewis, Mothman, on behalf of Hollis Mason.
The bound
versions do not have this paperclipped note about “next issue.”
Further, note that the paperclipped note
misspells the paper’s name as
Frontiersmen, not “-man.”
Seven chapters down, five to go! Buckle your owl-belts, kiddies!
See you next Monday for who-knows-what?!?
