Pages 9 and 20

This is a six-panel layout, made additionally interesting by the pairs of small and large panels that cross the page. The transition to page 10 is the image of a man biting into a bird's leg (raw seagull on page 9, fried chicken on page 10); decide for yourself whether it's visually fascinating or just plain gross. In 20.6, the sailor stretches across his raft as Bernie stretches plastic over his stand in 21.1.

This pair of pages deals only with the pirate comic. Obviously, the plight of the sailor mirrors that of Bernie the news vendor: the common man attempting to navigate through a perilous, suddenly strange sea. But here we're allowed to look at the predicament in a different light. A whole new likeness unfolds itself, and it also becomes Veidt's story, that of one man singled out for horrible knowledge, plunging him into madness and monstrosity.