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Panel 5: Note, in the background, the edition of NOVA
that included the exposé on Dr. Manhattan.
Panel 6: Only three days into his sessions with Kovacs
– as evidenced by the dates of Dr. Long’s journal in the caption boxes – we see
he has finished at least one of his bottles of painkillers.
Panel 7: Note the clock in the background is at the
familiar 5 to midnight position, and
that Dr. Long and his wife, Gloria, are back to back forming a reversal of the
“Hiroshima lovers” graffiti, as seen in the previous panel, which is also a
Rorschach blot. Dr. Long’s rather quick
transition from taking his wife up on the offer of making love the first night
after speaking to Kovacs to turning in early with no affection – as symbolized
by their sleeping arrangement in this panel – is symbolic of Dr. Long’s
metamorphosis into a person more like Rorschach, who has a strong distaste for
women and sex, in general.
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