WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Rorschach #7 by Tom King, Jorge Fornés, Dave Stewart and Clayton Cowles, on sale now.

Rorschach is a comic book filled with mystery. At the start of the series, an elderly man put on the dead vigilante's costume and attempted to kill presidential candidate Turley for reasons unknown. Since then, the investigator in charge of the case has learned that comic book artist Wil Myerson was the man underneath the mask -- but this was only the start of an investigation that would get much deeper, and a whole lot more complicated.

Indeed, in Rorschach #6, the investigator met with yet another person who was wearing the Rorschach mask, someone who was seemingly trying to help. Now, in Rorschach  #7, this new Rorschach reveals not only that he knew Wil Myerson, but that he knows exactly why he attempted to kill Governor Turley. And it was all, apparently, because of Doctor Manhattan.

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In Rorschach #6, thanks to letters left to him by this new person wearing the Rorschach mask, the investigator learned how Wil Myerson and Laura Cummings, aka The Kid, came into contact, how they found kinship in one another and how they eventually met. But none of that explained why they made Governor Turley their target.

In the book, the investigator sits down with the other Rorschach, a person who is revealed to be a fictionalized version of real-world comic book icon Frank Miller. Miller was revealed to exist in the comic book universe of Watchmen in Rorschach #1, but his appearance was brief. Here however, the creator's role is not only expanded and made crucial in the comic's story.

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Miller reveals that, a long time ago, he and Myerson were both part of a very small group of creators who briefly met for a séance held by Otto Binder, a version of Supergirl co-creator and foundational Superman and Shazam writer, who believed the dead could communicate through a recording device. Binder, a believer in extraterrestrial life in the real-world, believed he could contact his deceased daughter thanks to the "Spirit Men," UFOs who could be understood through electromagnetic energies recorded on tape.

During this séance, Otto recorded feedback that he was convinced was about his daughter. However, years later, Wil Myerson and Laura Cummings, now suited up as Rorschach and The Kid, returned to Frank Miller's house with that very recording. There, they explained their mission. They believed the alien squids that attacked New York in 1985 were too powerful for Doctor Manhattan to stop. According to them, his departure from Earth was all part of the superhero's plan: while the Squids focused on him, he used his powers to send a message through space and time that explained how to defeat the squids once and for all.

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They believed Doctor Manhattan was the Spirit Man, and that the recording device had picked up his message on how to stop the squids. While Otto Binder had his own interpretation of what the message said, Myerson heard something else: "The Wil is the mask." This is what prompted him to finally suit up as Rorschach. Then, Miller, Wil and Laura made a new tape recording, and they listened to the feedback -- and through it, they believed they heard something clear as day from Doctor Manhattan: "Kill Turley."

This reveal is an important piece of the puzzle. Now, we know that Wil and Laura targeted Governor Turley because they believed Doctor Manhattan sent them a message through time that instructed them to kill the presidential candidate in order to defeat the squids. The only problem with this is that it can't be true. While the people of the world believe the alien squids are real, we know they aren't. In Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, the alien attack in 1985 was manufactured by Adrian Veidt in a bid to achieve world peace. There were no aliens, just a man who used his vast resources to make the world believe they needed to unite against a common enemy.

Therefore, we know that Wil and Laura are in the wrong. They may believe they are on some holy mission to save the world from extraterrestrial beings, but the truth of the matter is that isn't the case at all. There are no alien squids, and their is no mission from Doctor Manhattan. Through Binder, Myerson and Laura, the recorded message serves as its very own kind of Rorschach test. Here, the recording plays the role of the blotted artwork, and each of them pick up their own interpretation, adding yet another layer to the significance of the series' title, and its principal theme.

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