I don't know about you, but when I'm launching myself from a conveniently low balcony into a mob of guys with guns, and I have a shield, I prefer to hold it in front of me. Otherwise you're just tying up one hand for no reason.

The more I look at his hat, the more he reminds of a well-worn pencil eraser.

The architecture is as odd as last week's installment - who builds a stage that's four-feet deep with a six-foot ceiling and a big picture window behind it? I'd bet anything that's the work of someone who inked and embellished Kirby's original.