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JUNIOR is asserting his dominance.
Panel 3
VINCE has a Derringer in an ankle-holster. The Remington Derringer was manufactured from 1866 until 1935.
William Gibson notes that VINCE having a hold-out gun like this is inspired by OSS Colonel Rex Applegate, whose book Kill or Get Killed (1943) is considered a classic manual of combat. He also notes that Applegate may have trained VINCE.
Panel 4
[No comment].
Panels 5-6
Could this be an allusion to "Life on Mars"? A BBC TV show where the protagonist (Sam Tyler) kinda travels back in time to the 1970s.
