Last week we left a hypnotized Midnight backed up against a wall by machine-gun toting gangster, Vince McGonigle. But before we find out what happens to our titular hero...
Once Gabby frees himself, he races to the McGonigle gang's warehouse hangout. Despite the fact that it seems to destroy the in-story timeline, Gabby arrives just as his pals are about to get aerated by lead. At the last possible moment, some random henchman convinces Vince to halt the execution, in favor of a "better idea."
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| Comic gangsters: icons of best management practices |
Gabby is mortified when he realizes what his pals can be persuaded to do in their hypnotized state. Then, he realizes that since anyone can influence Midnight now...he (Gabby) could just order him to mop up the McGonigle gang. However, a moment's reflection gives him pause.
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| I guess the moral of this story is: don't be an annoying houseguest |
Unfortunately, things don't work out at Gab is expecting. Rather than attacking his captors, Sniffer takes a swing at the man in blue, himself!
Apparently, shortly after drawing this panel...somebody notified the creatives-in-charge they were running out of room. You turn the page and all sort of plot holes and discrepancies explode. After Gabby's second order to Sniffer, the clueless detective suddenly turns and starts fighting the actual gangsters. (No explanation on why that didn't work the first time.) Next Wackey--for absolutely no explicable reason--snaps out of his hypnotic trance and then rouses Midnight by pulling his best "Dr. Phil."
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| Yep...that looks clinically sound. |
Of course, once he comes to himself Midnight enters the fray alongside Sniffer. Unfortunately, when our hero tells the Snoopster to "wake up!" the latter does so, and promptly reverts to his standard cowardly self. Of course, that doesn't change the outcome. Midnight mops the warehouse floor with McGonigle and his crew.
And we wrap up with the standard (lame) effort at humor.
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| Aaaaand, it's a swing and a miss! |
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