Welcome, dear reader, to Part 3 of the X-Force Assault on the Vault! There were fewer opportunities for dramatic visual effects in this strip than in Part 2, but I think the writing was funnier this time, so it sort of evens out. And, if you want to read Part 1, well, you can go here to do that!
Any variation on, “Let’s do this the old-fashioned way,” when characters in an action movie have to fight one another up close and personal will always get a rousing fist pump from me. My favorite version, it’s probably no surprise, is in Road House, when Jimmy pulls a gun on Dalton and declares, “I’m gonna kill you the old-fashioned way!” I would argue (and have often, when describing this moment) that hand-to-hand combat is way more old-fashioned than a pistol, but Road House is a movie where what I think of as “logic” rarely applies, so what I think is completely beside the point.
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