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Panel 1: It
is ironic that Dr. Manhattan, who claims to be following the script proscribed
for him within his omnipotent point of view, would claim that an inanimate
object such as the planet Mars is able to make a choice: “Life could have flourished here then, but
Mars did not choose life. It chose
this.”
Panel 2: Dr. Manhattan’s comment in the previous panel
has initiated yet another memory for Laurie, and again we see only her hands in
this panel as she begins to recount how chaotic her life was, which will lead
to the flashback beginning in the second panel following this one.
Also
note, this is another instance of the “blurred reflection” motif found in this
chapter.
Panel 3: Laurie’s remark that her mother “eroded [her]
adolescence, chipping [her] into shape…” is emphasized by the image of one of
the many canyons on Mars, which was formed by erosion and the chipping away of
its surface over millennia.
Panel 4: Note
that, in this panel, we can see clearly the card reading “black unrest” that
Captain Metropolis noted as one of the social evils he wished to stamp out with
the formation of the Crimebusters, as seen in Chapter II.
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