Watchmen Club Session 4 Issues 7&8 Qs

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Hi CBG19! Hi guys! Wanted to share with you this, even though it's from a previous chapter. I just found out that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs codenames were "Little boy" and "Fat man", respectively. Then I remembered that when Jon and Janey were at the amusement park, a little boy lost his black balloon and cried, then a fat man crushed Janey's clock. I love thinking it is a reference to the first atomic bombs and their consequences! Am I going too far? :)

would you please explain what did the dream sequence in issue 7 entail to encourage them to come out of their shell? Is it because night owl finally realizing the rorchach existential nihilism viewpoint?

No they just report to their own base. It just happens that this time they were right.

Great episode! FYI- I saw an interview with Alan More saying he based Rorschach on Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, and Ditko's character "Mr. A." Were you aware of this? Turns out Ditko is a big Ayn Rand fan and his Mr.A character was an objective morality "hero."

Comment: I think I’m a class too late to make this comment - but how about that ‘Raw Shark’ link between the meta pirate comic and the Rorschach tip-off to the police. I love all of those self-referential layers.

Lucas Fehr

I love how every panel is filled with so much detail and everything is put together with so much thought and nothing is there without a reason. That's why I have a very hard time with the comic reader sitting in the middle of the street smoking and reading IN HEAVY RAIN. This was shown multiple times already, what am I missing? Is there some deeper meaning behind this?

Sailor Meni

I'm terribly behind, but I skipped ahead a bit. I felt a connection to nite owl 2 when Laurie was going through his basement. I always wanted the fantasies I had as kid to be real, and after studying engineering and programming I was just like "yeah I'm gonna do it now", but sometimes when I take a step back it does seem silly. Is nite owl 2 supposed to show us the struggle of staying a dreamer when faced with harsh reality?

Jess J

I find it interesting that The New Frontiersman, while right-wing and having an agenda of its own (and perhaps conspiratorial and paranoid), actually does a better job of investigative journalism than Nova Express. The way the media is portrayed in this comic is especially poignant today, its almost as if Moore saw the direction media was moving towards, what with fake news and click-bait. What's your strategy for getting at the truth behind news these days?

Do you think the inclusion of "Blood from the Shoulder of Pallas Athena" is meant to explain why Daniel Dreiberg is more self-actualized as Nite Owl II or is it a juxtaposition between how one alias views the other alias?

Years before this book club, I would be bored senseless by Dan's chapter/supplemental material("I want more Rorschach!") but now, I see him as the most human and interesting of the bunch. Why would a rich guy decide he'd rather fly and bust out a friend from jail, in the build-up to nuclear armageddon? Also, the new frontiersman article about superheroes really hit home the fascism aspect of vigilante figures : connecting from the KKK to the Comedian, is being a "superhero" already being a fascist/authoritarian-in-waiting?

As a bit of an amateur ornithologist, I really loved reading "Blood from the shoulder of Pallas". In it, the purpose of an owl's screech is described as not to scatter preys but to stun them. Please expand on the parallels of this with the story at large. Are the heroes scattered by the "villain" or stunned, for example? Also, if you've ever heard the terrified shrieks of a mouse being hunted by a cat, do describe the experience. I never knew such tiny creatures could produce a sound so loud until I saw (and heard) it happen in my backyard.

PJ B

What do you think is the importance of the presence of Nostalgia perfume at Sally Jupiter's home Nepenthe Gardens, named after the drug from the Odyssey that banishes the sorrow of memory?