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Panel 2: Once more, Dr. Manhattan’s comments lead to
another important memory for Laurie.
This panel is unusual, in that we can see Laurie from the thighs up, but
it is from such a distance that her features are indistinct, continuing the
visual motif of Dr. Manhattan controlling her remembrances, while she is little
more than a cipher in her own story, in her own life.
Panel 4: The fog, to which Laurie refers in this
panel, is not just the fog from the previous panel, but also the fog through
which she walked her life – the fog of what it meant to be a hero and the fog
of what her mother endured at the hands of the “cool” hero, Edward Blake.
The
cigar smoke in the foreground, most likely belonging to Blake if judged by the
way Laurie is glaring, also accentuates this sense of “fog,” which transitions
directly to
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