The fallout shelters, in reality, offer no real sanctuary from nuclear war people are going to die regardless when the bombs drop, just as the poor Mariner in TOTBF has no way out once the black sails arrive to claim him. The black pirate sails match the black-on-yellow panels of the ubiquitous fallout shelter signs and, in both cases, there’s no hope of survival. So there was that particular point in issue #3 when I'd suddenly got all these different things going on at once and it suddenly struck me that I could have the newsvendor talking I could have someone screwing up a radiation symbol on a fallout shelter across the street I could have what the kid, who's sitting with his back to the electrical hydrant near the newsvendor's pitch, is reading in his comic and I could kind of get this weird shit going on between these different levels where they're striking sparks of meaning off each other Moore himself touches on this very point in an interview from 2000 over at (knew I'd read it somewhere!). Consider the first image that we see of the infamous Black Freighter itself at panel III.25.1 to see the obvious similarities in both colour and form which add compelling credence to this theory. The colours of the symbol match those described in the overlaid words pefectly.Īs for the shape itself, I've heard convincing argument elsewhere that the upper portion of the symbol revealed at III.1.1 corresponds to the outline of a stylised galleon in full sail silhouetted against the sky, if it were viewed front-on as it approaches. Coincidence? I don't think so.Ĭonsider the text from the TOTBF comic that accompanies the opening panel of Chap.III: Delirious, I saw that hell-bound ship's black sails against the yellow Indies sky. The radiation symbol appears on the very page upon which we are first introduced to the whole concept of the symbolic use of the Freighter in WATCHMEN. more specifically, it's a Black Frieighter reference. It's a Veidt reference in a manner of speaking.
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