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Panel 4: The shallow smile given by Kovacs in this
panel (subtly rendered by Dave Gibbons) could be read by Dr. Long as an
admonition that “there’s hope,” as the doctor professed in the previous panel.
But, in reality, Kovacs is smiling at the absurdity of the doctor and his willingness
to believe Kovacs’s fabrications in this therapy session.
Panel 5: Judging by Dr. Long’s response to Kovacs’s
smile, it is possible he understands more fully what his patient is
thinking. But, more likely, the doctor
just finds the change in expression from this taciturn and intense fellow
unsettling in and of itself.
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