This is a pretty light story – light on narrative, light on sense – but the most interesting thing about it is the word balloons. The word “bang” gets repeated so often over these three pages that it stops being a signifier and transforms into a part of the background. It’s a serious formulaic departure that yields some interesting results.

(Heavy Metal issue #46, January 1981 – Pages 71&72&73 Bang, Hah by Wood)