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Panel 1: Veidt’s halted admission that he “…dream[s]
about swimming towards a hideous [something]…” is a direct reference to the Black Freighter story within Watchmen. Veidt, like the protagonist in the Black Freighter, swims toward that
hideous black ship in his dream because, like that comic’s protagonist, he has
performed horrific acts with the intent to bring about the salvation of his
world, as the colonist in the Black
Freighter comic wished to save his family and friends in Davidstown from
the impending doom that approached in the form of the Black Freighter (even as
an impending nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union
threatened Veidt’s home, Earth).
This
is the most direct link between Veidt and the Black Freighter story, which acts as a metaphor for Veidt’s journey
in Watchmen.
Panel 2: Veidt’s dialogue, once again, links him with
the Black Freighter, as Veidt tells
Jon (Dr. Manhattan) that he realizes he has “…struggled across the backs of
murdered innocents…” in the same manner that the protagonist in the Black Freighter lashed together a raft
on top of the bloated bodies of his dead comrades in order to make his way
across the ocean and back to Davidstown.
Panel 7: The image of Veidt with his back to us
transitions directly to
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