this is satirical for anyone unfamiliar. It's a page from the right wing newspaper that the character Rorschach reads devotedly. It's got everything. Excessive labels. :liberty-weeping:, the works

  • mittens [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm sure the crying statue of liberty is less of a prediction and more of Stan Kelly lifting the joke straight from this panel. There's simply no way he isn't aware of Watchmen.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That is probably true. I tried looking into it, but there's like only one interview that deals with the crying statue of liberty and Kelly frustratingly enough doesn't break character:

        BNR: Where did you first get the idea for the crying Statue of Liberty who so often appears in your cartoons?

        SK: I take issue with your question. Lady Liberty is a powerful symbol of our nation, and I take great care to use her sparingly. It’s only when a cartoon is dealing with issues crucial to the survival of the Republic that I usher her into my panel. To see her shed a single tear should be enough to reduce every honest, patriotic American to a puddle of distraught emotion. I think hard and long before I use a weapon like that on my readers.

        Pretty funny answer though

        • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          God damn that's a perfect answer. If this were a post on this website no one would bat an eye. Kelly is one of us

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Nah, it seems like the kind of thing multiple people would come up with independently.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Nah, I'm with Mittens. Watchmen is one of the greatest works of comic art, and one of the greatest novels, of the 20th century. If would be shocked if Kelly wasn't familiar with it.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Kelly comics are second level parody, it's a comic that makes fun of people who saw this at some point and didn't understand that it was a joke