The Tattoo Monster’s gun was a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun, the kind you’d expect from a bandit in a Mad Max postapocalypse, adding to the impression that he had been birthed directly from the hallucinations of a paranoid mind.

— Abbott in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, 2024, St. Martin’s Press, Ch. Day 2, p. 132