Watchmen #3

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The Judge of All the Earth

Doctor Manhattan is having problems with his relationship with Laurie when he multiplies himself and she finds out that 'one of him' had been working while she was being romantic with another. Laurie walks out on Manhattan, going to meet up with Dan Dreiberg.

Meanwhile, Manhattan's ex-wife Janey Slater is giving an interview with a news editor of the *Nova Express*. She states that she has cancer that she presumably received through connection with Manhattan.

Manhattan gets dress and transports from his home to his television interview where he meets up with a government official named Forbes telling him what to, and what not to say. One of his questions that he cannot say is about his involvement with the Russians in Afghanistan. Then, one of the audience members is Doug Roth of *Nova Express* who ask Manhattan of his relationships with his colleague Wally Weaver, Slater, and his former nemesis Edgar Jacobi, if he knew that all of them had a fatal form of cancer, among others. Manhattan is left stunned and even more unsettled when Roth accuses him of being responsible for their inflictions. Forbes quickly intervenes and stops the interview, but while he and Manhattan are leaving, Roth and other reporters swarm around Manhattan and bombarding him with questions. A very distressed Manhattan yells "I said leave me alone!" and transports everyone outside of the building.

Laurie meets up with Dan who gave her some coffee and they talk about her troublesome relationship and where she will stay that night. She then decide on a hotel and walk with Dan to Hollis Mason's place. But while walking through an alleyway they are almost mugged by a gang of knot-tops. They effortlessly take out the gangsters. Leaving the alleyway, Laurie decides to go find a hotel by herself and to leave Dan alone. Once arriving at Hollis' place, Hollis shows Dan the interview of Manhattan's incident on television. Dan then realizes that Laurie doesn't know about this in which Hollis replies that she and the entire world will know very soon.

Manhattan arrives back at his home to find out that it is being quarantined. He decides that he is leaving, telling a soldier to leave a message for Laurie and his superiors. He said he is going to Arizona, and then Mars. He goes to the Gila Flats test base in Arizona, where he took a picture of himself and Janey Slater many years ago at a carnival. On Mars he explores in a childish excitement and then finds a rock to sit on.

Laurie goes back to the base to find that everything is being taken away by military personnel in hazmat suits and she is told by Forbes that she is ordered to undergo a cancer scan and is ask about whether she has put Manhattan in emotional stress. Unaware of Manhattan's incident, she is offended by Forbes for considering herself responsible for something until the man, deeply exasperated, snaps to her that she is no longer welcome to the base, since his superiors believe that Manhattan is not coming back in which his absence has severe global consequences.

The next day, Dan awakes from his bed to find Rorschach has broken into his home (again), whom he shows Dan a newspaper with the front page of Manhattan's departure from Earth. This news also makes Rorschach being more convinced of his mask killer theory.

That night, the news vendor receives the evening edition and is shocked to read from the headlines. Anxiously, he gives the kid a copy of *Tales of the Black Freighter* for free, and even his cap. The headline he read is "Russians Invade Afghanistan".

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Dan Dreiberg) * Doctor Manhattan (Jonathan "Jon" Osterman)) Real name revealed * Laurie Juspeczyk) * Rorschach)

**Supporting Characters:** * Bernard (News vendor)) * Bernie (Comic book reader)) * Hollis Mason)

**Antagonists:** * Knot-Tops * *Nova Express* ** Doug Roth) * Soviets ** Red Army

**Other Characters:** * *ABC* ** Benny Anger) * The "End-Is-Nigh" man) * *Enquirer* ** Jim Weiss * Gordian Knot Lock Company ** Ralph * Janey Slater) * Promethean Cab Co. ** Joey * Max Shea) * Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt)) * President Richard Nixon) ** Henry Kissinger) ** United States Army *** Forbes (Army Intelligence) * *Washington Post* ** Tina Price * Bernard's wife * The Comedian) * Fidel Castro) * God * Jesus Christ * Krystalnacht band * Moloch (Edgar Jacobi)) * Pale Horse band) * Sally Juspeczyk) * Wally Weaver) * Flash-Man) * Super-Man)

**Locations:** * 1985 ** Earth *** Afghanistan *** Soviet Union **** Russia ***** Moscow ****** Kremlin *** United States of America **** Arizona ***** Gila Flats ****** The Bestiary Bar **** New York ***** New York City ****** The Bronx ******* Mason's Auto Repairs ****** Daniel Dreiberg's Apartment ****** Manhattan ******* 7th Avenue (Manhattan)|7th Avenue ******** Bernard's Newsstand ******** Institute for Extraspatial Studies ******** Promethean Cab Co. ******** Gunga Diner ******* ABC|ABC studios ***** Rockefeller Military Research Center **** Maryland ***** Baltimore **** Massachusetts ***** Boston *** Germany *** Great Britain *** India *** Mexico *** Pakistan *** Switzerland **** Geneva ** Mars) * Hell

**Items:** * Comedian's Button * Janey Slater & Jon Osterman's Photo * *National Examiner* * *New York Gazette* * *New Frontiersman* * Nostalgia Perfume * *Nova Express* * Rorschach's Mask * "*Tales of the Black Freighter*"

**Events:** * Cold War ** Geneva Summit (1985)|Geneva Talks

**Concepts:** * Connective Energy

Creative credits

Writers: Alan Moore

Interior art: Dave Gibbons

Color: John Higgins

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