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Panel 1: and the image of Sally Jupiter
with her back to us, her bathrobe mirroring Veidt’s cloak in the previous
panel.
And
Sally’s dialogue also calls back to the previous page, as she complains about
people “begging” on Christmas day, stating “…it never ends…” mirroring Dr.
Manhattan’s comment to Veidt on panel 5
of Page 27 that “…nothing ends.”
Panel 2: The
family name of this couple, Hollis, is an obvious allusion to Hollis Mason, the
original Nite Owl, and is one of the many aliases that Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl
II) set up in case he ever needed to go into hiding.
Panel 3: The Outer Limits episode running on Sally
Jupiter’s television, “The Architects of Fear,” is one that has a similar plot
to Watchmen. Alan Moore has
stated that he discovered this similarity while looking through a guide to cult
television. He and Gibbons had their
ending already worked out and included this reference to that episode as a way
of signifying this coincidence – whether unconscious or unconnected. It need also be noted that this plot was not
unique to this Outer Limits episode, writers such as Theodore Sturgeon and Kurt
Vonnegut had used a similar plot in their prose years before “The Architects of
Fear” aired on television.
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