I don’t know why it took me until now, but Bond wasn’t a spy at all, he was a straight up assassin.
More of a fixer sent in to deal with issues that probably require killing people
In the book Dr. No, his briefing is “This important intelligence officer in the Caribbean has gone missing. Most likely he’s run off with his secretary. Here’s your gun. Go deal with this.”
I always thought fixers were what cleaned up after HIS work.
Sort of like in Pulp Fiction when Mr. Wolf is called. He fixes the situation, becoming connected to the mess, performing otherwise illegal actions to fix the initial, yet unintentional murder, for pay.
First read “he is dead, Jim”, which created a funny crossover meme
Why is this funny? Like at all.
He is either going to off himself, or her to protect his secret.
or he’s uncocking the thing, right? i’m not a gun person or anything :shrug:
I’m not the author or an expert or anything. But I’m fairly sure the joke is about how his license expired and she just made him realize she’s a witness to murder.
And that’s funny why?
My dude I’m not going to explain comedy to you. It isn’t objective or universal. If you don’t find it funny, that’s okay. This comic ain’t for you.
His license expired but he’s gonna do it anyway.
I read it as he’s performing a press check in preparation for shooting the person next to him.
Presumably, Bond did a bunch of shooting to get to the point where the comic starts. The gun is potentially dirty enough where failure to feed or extract may be happening. A simple push of the slide back enough to verify that he’s got a live round chambered might save him from having to resort to other methods to silence the other person in the comic.
Not enough detail in the comic to tell whether it’s a striker or hammer-fired pistol.
Most striker (and some hammer) automatics cannot be decocked without pulling the trigger on an empty chamber.
And got those that can, you either have to pull the trigger while holding the hammer back and lowering it manually, or by flipping a separate switch or button.
If it could be done by moving the slide back and pulling the trigger, then holding the trigger down while firing the gun would result in full-auto.
That’s not how you uncock a gun. It is how you would load a bullet into the chamber to take first shot after reloading, or how you would clear the chamber of you want to take the bullet out.
I don’t imagine bond as someone not having the gun chambered at all times though, not sure if there is specific bond lore for that.
Maybe if the fourth panel was removed, it would hold some humor. An expiration date on something so special as a licence go kill could give a soft chuckle. But since the fourth panel suggests that he is about to solve the issue somehow, it just makes it confusing. What is the funny part?
looks at expire license to kill
James ‘Bail’ Bond?
Huh.
You too, James…
The Venture Bros. had an entire episode about this and it was excellent.
Why is he cocking a gun he just fired? He likes to toss unspent bullets on the ground?
Haha that’s a good point. If he doesn’t kill them can he be done for assault with a deadly weapon?
