Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho for December 03, 2013

“Ace”? as in the main character in the “TMI” webcomic?

….oh ya….baby

Ah, there’ s nothing like true love..What this is… I’m not sure.

That must be alter-Frank because he’s .A. Armedand.B. Not a whoose

Cute JB ref ya got thereMmmm…Brandy!

Interesting. It should be very interesting when both Brandys and Franks meet.

Lets hope the Blammo Ol’ Blue shoots straight…… or is that ol’ glue..???

How old is this strip? "Golden Eye’, from which the quote is drawn, came out in 1995.

‘Casino Royale’, from which the quote actually comes, was published in 1953.

For all who are wondering, the strip IS nearly that old…The “Ace” reference is from Red Dwarf; “Ol‘ Blue” was the name of Ralphie’s BB gun from “A Christmas Story”; and yes, “No more foreplay” is from “Goldeneye”…

Perhaps not. But the confluence of Frank holding a gun on Brandy, Frank muttering “No more foreplay,” and Cho sticking in the reference to being shaken, not stirred, all add up to a backhanded homage to Pierce Brosnan’s “James Bond” in “Goldeneye.”

“Mellish, Frank Mellish…”

(and “shaken, not stirred” goes right back to the original books.)