According to Alan Moore, the last line of Watchmen features a secret message for the apocalyptic ending that remains largely under wraps.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are the minds behind Watchmen, one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, and the plot that became a turning point for DC Comics.
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More than 35 years after being published by DC, Watchmen continues to teach its readers lessons, as Alan Moore considers in an interview with the American salon magazine.
After the events where the Crimebusters solved the Comedian’s crime, with the New York massacre having just happened, The New Frontiersman’s courier finds Rorscharch’s diary, which Walter Kovacs wrote until the day before he died at the hands of Doctor Manhattan. .
On the last page we see that Seymour, the copy of The New Frontiersman, suggests to his editor some topics they could write about, to which he tells the young man that he leaves the decision in his hands.
What does the last dialogue of Watchmen mean?
This last line is Alan Moore’s way of breaking the fourth wall between the writer and his readers, letting them think freely about the conclusions of the work, instead of leading them to a safe side.
“The end of Watchmen, where you basically have the entire fate of the world in the hands of a semi-literate copycat… I think the ending quote is ‘I leave it entirely in your hands,’ which I think was me talking to the reader. Because I don’t think the purpose of fiction is really to dictate a political/moral reality. I feel really uncomfortable about it.”
Moore pointed out that with Watchmen he did not try to give any kind of message, since the moral lesson of this work is in charge of Seymour, who has an important moral weight by having in front of him the document that can unmask Ozymandias.
“It’s not my job to tell people what to think. If I can somehow help readers’ creative thinking, then that.” It has to be to everyone’s benefit.”.
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