>>96977134Just look at how robust this is
>Literal Freighter is drawing near as an artist draws the Squid, the figurative black freighter, as the missing author of the Black Freighter series, also involved in the creation of the Squid, comes into frame and alludes to not only the similarities of his situation to previous work but the means the Squid was physically and psychologically created and where the Squid is headed on the Freighter to Veidt's place to be teleported.It's like mental table tennis.
The two characters also obviously serve to transition to Dan and Laurie, with their situation and relations paralleling and mirroring at once in both being newly lovers but one is sending doom to the world while the other is attempting to bring salvation through their "tyke".
Just one page. A single page and Moore's still firing on all cylinders.
Small detail I noticed, in this setting the tube and ball pipe are introduced as a new means of smoking some hash ball.
If you pay attention it's not always used by everyone. It's chiefly used by the younger, rebellious or upper class, while most of the older generation, old fashioned, orderly or lower class still use cigars and cigarettes.
Pipe
>Man who gets elevator for detectives, Several frequenters of Happy Harry's and Knot tops, Upper Class at Rafael's, Gordon Liddy, Laurie Juspeczyk, Janey SlaterCigarettes and Cigars
>Detective Steve Fine, Hollis Mason, Happy Harry, Edward Blake, Bernie (a hand rolled to be accurate), Max Shea, Big Figure 
