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I question id like to ask to anyone who reads this book is if it was worth it in the end. Was it worth the millions of lives to a achieve world peace? It all comes down to looking at it from all perspectives. From a long term perspective it might look a little differently. While millions died in the accident, millions more might be able to live in the future as time goes on. I like to think of this situation as an allegory for nuclear weapons. That old question on whether or not nukes are worth it is still brought up today. Nuclear weapons are capable of destroying humanity, and yet the have not only ended a war, but potentially prevented many others. Its a difficult question to answer. Could tragedy ultimately be worth it in the end?

When I look at this picture I can not help but get a sense of two polar opposites that will never be able to work together. Owlman and The comedian are two people that will likely never be able to work well together. Owlman is polite, and generally uses nonlethal means to fight crime. While The Comedian is a murderous psychopath. Owlman represents what a hero typically is in most comics. Using nonlethal means no matter how bad a situation is. Meanwhile Comedian represents everything the riot shown was meant for. People who can't even be described as heroes who use their abilities for self gratification and a gross miss use of power and force. Rorschach would be a much more suitable partner as he would care less about casualties so long as justice, or in most cases vengeance, prevails.

To me this quote could mean a lot of things. One theory being that someone should not be too influenced by emotions like anger or sadness. Because if we let our emotions control us we lose our control over our life. Everything we do will be decided on how we react to situations rather than thinking and sorting them out using patience and logic. But another mean comes at the end when Gray says he wants to use, enjoy and dominate his emotions. If we can control our emotions we can better protect ourselves from being manipulated by others who use our emotions as a way to make themselves seem better then they really are. emotions can be powerful tools that can benefit us or work against us.

When I first read these panels I thought back to an old Star Trek quote; “The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, or the one.” It begs the question what does ones life matter in the sea of hundreds of billions of lives over the course of human history? To me this signifies that alone we are nothing without anybody else. It is by others hands that we rise to greatness. A leader with his followers or a king with his subjects is nothing. Without the help of 'the many' to prop them up, all of the worlds most recognizable and respected people in history would never be known. And yet Rorschach in these panels is dead set on staying alone. He is deliberately on a doomed path which will see him fade away and be forgotten to the pages of history. Which is actually a good foreshadowing moment for what will happen to him later on.

I though that the lines that were spoken, actually fit to what was on the panels. It made it sound like the two men are in the same room together and were reminiscing about old photos together or something like that.