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John Byrne is on record as saying that he only wants to write villains that are pure evil. He considers morally complex villains, villains who have any kind of explanation or even self-justification for their actions, to somehow be squishy liberal nonsense. The same, obviously, goes for villains that have some redeeming qualities or elements of good in them. It is possible that Chuck Dixon has a similar ideological objection.

I am amused, however, that noted gun enthusiast Dixon perhaps overlooked something in that second-to-last scan. Quite likely he assumed that, since the dialogue refers to a right and a left barrel, he didn't need to explicitly spell out in the script that Harvey is holding a double-barreled shotgun. Instead, we get a tommy gun, rendering Harvey's dialogue gibberish. The moral: never assume the artist has any idea what the hell you're talking about.