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- Meant to say Issue 10, my fault.
The history of Silk Spectre! Dr. Manhattan and Laurie argue over the importance of life--sending Laurie down memory lane. Learn of her early upbringing, her mother's influence on her life, and the truth about her connection to the Comedian.
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This issue again has so much going on and often Moore can thread the needle to make it work fantastically, juggling the concepts and messages he is trying to convey with the allegory that he is simultaneously trying to create, all leading to the impact and convergence of ideas at the end of the issue. Compared to most of his contemporaries, this issue is brilliant, but compared to the other issues in this series, it misses the mark for me, just slightly, and only because he has done it so well, time after time.
Also we got two Dr. Manhattan issues before we got a single Ozymandias one??
Interesting issue about an argument that due to the art and how the dialogue gets framed comes off beautiful and endearing. It’s really cool with the thought of being on an Alien planet Mars. Great stuff.
While I do like this issue, I will address my three main critiques before talking about the positives and what I liked about this issue, because I think its a must that I talk about the critiques before I give this very good issue any praise. The are 3 main critiques I have. 1: The laziness in Coloring, like holy crap, last issue there was a bunch of miscolorings, and this issue too! I understand Alan Moore was difficult on his artist, but some of these miscolorings are so crazy they just frustrate me a lot. 2: Retcons, you can say whatever abt the Comedian being foreshadowed to be Laurie's father, but me? I didn't really buy it till now. Like yea, this issue was set up for this reveal, but it also did a whole bunch of stuff outside of the more
fuck mars
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