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Panel 1: Again, Moore & Gibbons mirror a comment
in the dialogue with the imagery in the panel, as Veidt talks of how “…atomic
deadlock guided [humanity] downhill…” even as Veidt makes his way down the
expansive staircase that leads to the main floor of his fortress.
Panel 2: Veidt continues to descend the stairs, with
Rorschach and Nite Owl now following, and this descent is mirrored in his
dialogue as he comments upon how the rising political tensions ran parallel to
the descent of the costumed
adventurers’ public approval.
Panel 3: Veidt’s commentary of how he understood that
the esteem with which costumed adventurers were perceived would reach bottom by the late 1970s is mirrored by
him reaching the bottom of the stairs.
Panel 5-7: Veidt’s grim outlook of where the world was
heading – to a point where the past, present, and future of humanity would be
wiped out – is mirrored by the transition, visually, from inside Karnak, with
Veidt, Bubastis, Rorschach, and Nite Owl, to the wind-swept and desolate setting
outside on the Antarctic plain.
The
final piece of dialogue in Panel 7 –
“…as if it had never been…” – transitions directly to
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