![]() Manhattan caused people close to him (including his ex-girlfriend Janey Slater, his “buddy” Wally Weaver and the once-villainous Moloch) to develop cancer… well, let’s just say he reacts badly. When Jon Osterman appears on a live TV Q&A session in “Watchmen” #3, he doesn’t anticipate questions about whether being nuclear-powered isn’t such a good thing. It’s through moments like these that Moore and Gibbons really get under the skin of readers: between The Comedian’s moral bankruptcy and the Minutemen’s inability to exact justice, you can’t help but wonder… what’s the point of being a superhero if you can’t even stop your own team from becoming monsters? What makes this sequence so disturbing is not simply that a supposed hero could do something so vile - although that’s a big part of it - but the fact that Blake escapes punishment, as Sally decides not to press charges in case it damages the Minutemen’s credibility. Ever the Comedian, he tries to turn the whole thing into a joke about Hooded Justice getting off on violence. Although Hooded Justice steps in at the last minute to save Sally, Blake makes it clear he feels no remorse. ![]() After trying to kiss Sally and receiving a “no thanks” in the form of a sharp right hook to the jaw, Blake persists trying to force himself on his teammate, striking her repeatedly as she tries to resist. Of all the shocking moments in this series, the flashback of Edward Blake’s violent assault of Sally Jupiter in “Watchmen” #2 is perhaps the most widely recognized. It’s not only a pivotal moment in the narrative, but one of the most beautiful and moving sequences Moore and Gibbons ever put together. Manhattan’s decision to help mankind becomes all the more poignant for it. Though it’s highly controversial to make Laurie the product of such a dysfunctional relationship, Dr. The Comedian has few redeeming features and Laurie never saw him as anything other than a villain however, once she’s forced to accept she would not exist without him, she realizes how much she has distorted her memories to suppress the truth of who she really is. Understandably, this shocking revelation rocks Laurie to the core, as it did the comic book community upon release. Against all odds, she manages this incredible feat, but only after reaching a shocking self-realization: her father is not the Hooded Justice as she always believed, but The Comedian, the despicable anti-hero who once attacked her mother (more on that later). Manhattan to save her from impending nuclear war in “Watchmen” #9, she tries to convince her super-powered ex to return to Earth and save humankind instead. When Laurie Juspeczyk is transported to Mars by Dr.
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