Nite Owl (I) Part 5: Watchmen #9 (May, 1987)

This is technically out of sequence in terms of the reading order of Watchmen, but I’m putting this issue here because it takes place before Hollis’ death.

I have this issue in the Watchmen trade.

We see Hollis at a Minutemen reunion party in 1962, just after Under The Hood is published, as Laurie’s origin is explained.

Notes of Interest:
1) Hollis appears here in one of Laurie’s memories from when she was thirteen.

2) It’s established that Hollis kept in touch with Sally up to this point, because he’s known Laurie for a while.

3) He gets into a small argument with Sally - who isn’t too happy about what he wrote in Under The Hood.

4) In the prose piece at the back if the issue, we learn that in his autobiography, Hollis alleged that she was sexually assaulted by The Comedian.

WTF? Moment: We often see Hollis with a drink of some kind in his hands, and this issue is no exception. There’s no indication that he gets drunk, however, and that bothers me. There could have been something there, either a liver problem or an incident resulting from being overly intoxicated. Something that explored how drinking may have been his way of dealing with the evils of the time, and how it eventually caught up with him.