I really loved illustrating that third panel.
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Panel 1:
[Tommy Gunn is hauling a tied up Salvatore Bolts III into the DBM's van outside of the speakeasy.]
Leadfoot Lucy: "SAL! What was the hold up?!? We’ve got a schedule to keep!"
Tommy Gunn: "There's gonna be a delay."
Panel 2:
[Tommy Gunn, with a sack in hand, approaches Leadfoot Lucy from behind the driver's seat.]
Leadfoot Lucy: "We’re already behind schedule, we don’t have time--"
Tommy Gunn: [WHACK!]
Panel 3:
[Blackness.]
[Tommy Gunn is hauling a tied up Salvatore Bolts III into the DBM's van outside of the speakeasy.]
Leadfoot Lucy: "SAL! What was the hold up?!? We’ve got a schedule to keep!"
Tommy Gunn: "There's gonna be a delay."
Panel 2:
[Tommy Gunn, with a sack in hand, approaches Leadfoot Lucy from behind the driver's seat.]
Leadfoot Lucy: "We’re already behind schedule, we don’t have time--"
Tommy Gunn: [WHACK!]
Panel 3:
[Blackness.]
now that I think of it, it isn’t a foregone conclusion who received the “whack”…
If this was a traditional mafia story yes, but in this case, the cops are not as clean as one would expect.