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Plot Summary
Dr. Manhattan sits on Mars using his precognitive powers to determine when the picture he is holding will fall the surface. He spends the next several panels thinking about his past.
He flashes back to when he was 16. He is repairing a pocket watch. His father enters the room and decides that he doesn’t want his son to take up a dying trade, and wants him to going into nuclear science, specifically bombs. He dumps the watch pieces off a fire escape.
He then goes onto for a science company. As he is being shown around, he runs into Janey Slater. The talk for a bit and she buys him a drink. He then flashes to days at the carnival with Janey, making love to her, repairing watches, and the experiment that made him Dr. Manhattan. He got locked into a test vault that separates objects from their intrinsic fields. The door has a safety feature that couldn’t get him out or stop the process. A couple of months later, weird ghost like images start to appear in the laboratories. One day, a full-fledged boy appeared. Jon was now Dr. Manhattan.
Time goes on and the government uses Manhattan as a weapon to crush any adversary they face. He meets different costumes at various times but never really establishes a relationship.
Manhattan tired to go back to his life with Janey but eventually it failed. The stress of his new powers along with his unemotional ways caused him to get with Laurie, the Silk Spectre.
He remembers being with The Comedian in Vietnam, and all the killing and violence that went on there. He remembers the lives he took there.
He then goes to see his friend Adrian Veidt in his Artic establishment. From there he recalls the Keene Act of ’77, and who got to stay masked and who was forced to retire. Rorschach did not retire. The next two pages flash a panel of most of the important moments of his life.
The story returns to the present, with Dr. Manhattan floating above the surface of Mars. From nothing arises a great castle made from his mind. He stands on the balcony of his castle and watches a meteor shower.
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Thanks to a bad accident his atoms are torn apart, yet he is able to pull himself together, and finds he has the powers of a god. Now I could buy his whole theory of what will happen will happen, If he ever did anything to try and affect anyhting that ever happens. All he does is observe, which is a major part of the character. His seperation from humanity.
I do like how Alan Moore frames the timeline, and jumps back and forth in the story. It kept the book interesting, while never becoming confusing. Just as Dave Gibbons can fill a panel with chaos, without it ever actually becoming chaotic. In the end, this easily stands as one of my favorite issues of the series.
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Hollis Mason Part 4: Watchmen #4 |
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We witness both times Hollis interacts with Dr. Manhattan. The first is in June, 1960 at a benefit event for the Red Cross. They’re both at the event, but we don’t see them talking. Their second meeting is in May, 1962 at Hollis’ retirement party. Hollis reveals that since things have changed in the crime fighting business, he plans to fix cars, and Dr. Manhattan has a few choice words about that.
Notes of Interest:
1) Hollis mentioned first meeting Dr. Manhattan at the benefit in his Under The Hood comments from Watchmen #3, calling it a turning point in his career.
2) Thanks to Dr. Manhattan, Hollis felt obsolete in two ways – as a costumed hero getting too old to continue fighting crime, and as a mechanic fixing cars that will no longer be made.
3) Hollis’ entire world came crashing down when Dr. Manhattan arrived. Moore could have made Hollis turn evil and plot to destroy Jon, or go batshit insane and end up in a padded room next to Mothman, or simply say ‘to hell with it’ and commit suicide. Instead, Hollis writes his novel (giving us great insight to the Watchmen universe), does his mechanic thing (as much as possible), and lives somewhat vicariously through the activities of his unintentional successor.
4) Hollis, of all the characters in this story, is the one guy I’d want to hang out with, listening to his stories over beers, and I think that was Moore’s intention: to present someone readers could identify with as the ‘average guy’ who just wanted to be a super-hero, did it, and got out just as everything got (more) crazy.
WTF? Moment: Hollis was 45 years old when he retired, and a rather intelligent man. There’s no reason (aside for the plot points mentioned above) that he couldn’t have gone back to school to upgrade his mechanic skills for the new technology. Electric cars are different, but they still break down…
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Dr. Manhattan - more then a watchmaker !!! |
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It begins how he sits on Mars and use his powers to determine when the picture of him and his old girlfriend Janey Slater will fall the surface. Then he spends the next several panels remembering and thinking about his past. He flashes back to when e was 16. He is repairing a pocket watch and then his dad enters the room and decide that his son is not going to be a dying trade watchmaker. He wants Jon to be going into nuclear science, specifically bombs. Then we see how he is older and mets Janey into a science company. Next in the issue we see how he becomes Dr. Manhattan and a member of Watchmen.
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