Saturday, May 5, 2012

Watchmen: Chapter V - page 5

PAGE 5

Panel 4:  As we have already seen – and as we will see many more times in Watchmen – Alan Moore creates a single piece of dialogue that has multiple meanings.  In this panel the phrase, “tough break,” signifies not only Moloch contracting cancer, but also the egg Rorschach is breaking in the foreground.

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