Smile

This iconistic image played a major part in my formative years and shaped the latter stages of  my degree course. It is an image taken from the critically acclaimed comic book series Watchmen and for me represents the irony that threads through the comic. In it’s own right it conveys a lot of irony with the blood splat and a happy face and on from that more ironically it is the favoured symbol of The Comedian character who deals out death.

The reason it’s here… I simply love the image. It suggests more than the obvious irony, it continues the recurrent geometric motif of a circle with it being reminiscent of a clock face  and the ‘big hand’ pointing at ’10 to’ the hour, 5 minutes before defcon 5.

I could go on for days about this image, but instead, I’m going to sit back and enjoy.

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