Original artwork, not a still
Abe Sapien / Hellboy, Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 (1999)
Is that a monkey? / He’s got a gun!
— Hellboy · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Abe has time to identify the unlikely animal; Hellboy immediately notices the practical problem. Their different priorities compress an escalating disaster into two balloons. The joke relies on the danger arriving faster than either character's dignity can catch up.
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In context
Spoilers for HellboyShow the scene
In Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 (1999), Abe Sapien and Hellboy encounter a gun-carrying monkey during their investigation. Abe asks the question; Hellboy supplies the urgent answer. The exchange later circulated widely as a reaction image, but its source is the comic. Both speakers are retained here.
Sources (2)
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 — written source 1Box Full of Evil; quotation and sceneReference checked
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 — written source 2Box Full of Evil; quotation and sceneReference checked
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