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Below, we see Laurie come to the realization of her true parentage and comments that a gag has been played on her, her life is a joke.

Gag. That’s the same word Moore used when describing Superman’s identity, isn’t it?
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Below, you see the Comedian telling Hooded Justice “I’ve got your number, and one of these days, the joke is going to be on you”
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Larry doesn’t need a print because Hooded Justice is already getting one.

Let’s go back to that wedding photo and let’s compare it to the 1940 photo from the photo op.

Do you notice that the Minutemen are standing in the exact same positions in both photos?
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Let’s talk about that photo op scene in 1940.

Below, you see Nite Owl paying the photographer. But why?

Larry is the Minutemen’s publicist. Presumably he set the whole photo op up. Why isn’t Larry in this scene and why isn’t Larry handling the money?
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Alan Moore once wrote a comic book called “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”

Below, you’ll see some villains in this comic making light of the ‘great gag’ of Superman’s secret identity. That all he had to do was “comb his hair and stick on a pair of glasses” to fool all of humanity.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Watchmen is an absolute mind fuck full of secrets that people to this day have still not discovered.

Check out my pinned post for a bunch of revealed secrets but I will walk you through my favorite.

Hooded Justice is not Rolf Muller but rather the Minutemen’s publicist, Larry Schexnayder.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
DESPITE the fact that with YOUR OWN EYES, you can see that Hooded Justice is no bigger than Captain Metropolis or even Nite Owl. Nite Owl definitely isn't skipping Leg Day whereas HJ looks a little thin there.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In the picture you see two panels side by side.

In the second picture, we see Mothman in old age slowly going crazy.

In the first picture, we see an unnamed John who is paying Rorschach’s mom for sex.

They are the same person.

Meaning Mothman wasn’t some “innocent” as the surface plot inclines.
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Work better with meta comic knowledge”

It doesn’t matter if you read 50,000 comics or Zero before starting Watchmen…

Either way, you will be tricked and manipulated.

The picture shows you, with your own sense of sight, that Hooded Justice is no bigger than some of the other costumed adventurers.
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Hollis Mason tells the readers of his book that Sally Jupiter and Larry Schexnayder were married in the year 1947.

That’s not true.

In issue 9, we see the proposal letter from Larry to Sally and it is dated February 1948.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Which part?

I’m assuming you mean the Mothman one.

On the right is Mothman in old age.

On the left is a John of Rorschach’s mother, a man who treated her very badly in the scene we see him in, and even talked shit to young Rorschach.

They’re the same person.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Does that look like Superman’s cape with a knife in its back?

You can see the collar, shield, the works.

Given that the book is essentially a big middle finger to superheroes, very fitting.

It’s not mentioned in Moore’s script, and so I believe this was Gibbons being brilliant.

Cheers!
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Add an S to the Smiley button.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Flip it upside down.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’ve shared this before, some people see it as I do, some think I’m crazy, but since you’re discussing the Smiley, I figured I’d share.

The picture posted is from the first page, first panel.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Gibbons is literally laughing at the reader knowing the manipulation he’s causing.

The Tilt a Whirl is seen in the background, the only words being visible are “Ti” and “Hi”…

“Tee-hee!”

Gibbons is laughing at us as the reader falls for this sort of manipulation all the time in this book.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In panel 2, Mother 1 is cut off so you can’t see her. In panel 4, Boy 1 is cut off so you can’t see him. And they’re both carrying an ice cream cone in their respective panels.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So where is the boy from panel 2 then?

He’s still there in panel 4, just not seen. He’s directly behind Boy and Mother 2. You can see Boy 1’s mother in the blue shirt in the background.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Boy 1 has an undershirt. Boy 2 does not.

Boy 2 has a belt. Boy 1 does not.

Boy 2 has his shirt tucked in. Boy 1 does not.

Now if just one of these things was different, you could say it’s just error on the artist. But it’s all three. And this is Gibbons and Watchmen we’re talking here.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Now to panel 4, we again see the boy and his mother, but this time the boy is crying because he has lost his balloons.

Except…

This kid in panel 4 is not the same kid from panel 2. You are made to think it is through manipulation but it’s not.

Let’s examine.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In panel 3, the boy and his mother are no longer seen, but we still see the balloons flying away.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In panel 2, in the background, we see a young boy with his mother who is reaching for balloons in the air.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I like how Gibbons teases the reader of Watchmen, hinting that not everything is as it seems or as it’s presented.

Let’s examine an example on page 6 from issue 4.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In issue 9, Larry sends Sally a letter where he essentially proposes to her.

The letter is dated 1948.

Now you may think that this is a printing error, but once you realize that Hollis Mason tells a bunch of other mistruths, then you realize the book itself lies to you.
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM