Watchmen IV
Bench #1902. This one is a lot wackier than Watchmen III! Mine and the original are set on Mars, where Dr. Manhattan has just dropped an old photo of himself and Janey. I had fun drawing the old photo with the original realistic style Janey and my attempt at a Penny Arcade style Gabe, and the contrast of her realistic hand and Gabe's 3-fingered cartoon hand both at the popcorn container. The real cover also has a guy in glasses behind Jon, and it made me think of Pitr from
User Friendly, whom I'd already drawn once in my Bench strip
1690. So there's 3 styles of art going on in the photo. The original cover's Martian sand has bare footprints since Doc tends to go around naked. And as in my first cover, I made a rock into an acorn for the squirrel.
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