Status Updates From Watchmen

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
The narrative always surprises me every time I reread it.

I usually didn't pay that much attention to the Black Freighter side-stories or background ads or such, but I'm taking extra care about that this time around and, yeah, it's all pretty ominous. Hard to imagine the setting's pirate stories could ever have defaulted to lighthearted kiddie stuff, though.

Also, I always pictured Dr. Manhattan warping to Mars right away and it having ruined buildings for some reason...