Don't you just hate that?

You're just standing there, minding your own business, when someone goes and pokes you in the back, but they're too chicken to come right out and do it with their finger, so they take one of those long pointers they used to use in elementary school for the math times tables tests and get you from a distance.  You weren't paying attention and you kind of jump in the air, maybe giving a surprised yelp, and drop whatever it is that was in your hand, instantly losing whatever dignity and respect you might have had.  I tell ya, you'd think that people would grow out of this sort of thing, and then it happens out of the blue and there's nothing you can really do but laugh because at least then you're laughing with everyone else, even if you are crying on the inside.

Okay, okay.  I don't think that Jack has just been poked in the back by a long stick.  I'm pretty sure that he's just been shot by that police man, or maybe it was the cell phone on the police man's shoulder (I hear the new ones come with lasers).  Whatever the case, it looks like Jack is about to bow out of the comic once and for all, but at least he was able to make that one last card/gambling related pun.  (I know that we're all so happy about that.)  I just hope that his shooter wasn't standing too close or else there's a chance that the bullet might go right through Jack and into Tracy (and if that's the case, I hope that Tracy is wearing his bulletproof trench coat).  Of course, right now, Tracy isn't too concerned about that.  What he's actually more concerned about is that POW headed straight for his eye.  (Anyone who's ever had a bug fly into their eye knows exactly what I'm talking about.)  He should be glad that it didn't come with an exclamation point, otherwise he'd have to start wearing an eye patch and have a heck of a time shooting without depth perception (which could introduce an interesting new angle to the comic, but right now I'm just sort of hoping that this strip means the story is wrapping itself up and that we'll have moved on to the next one by the end of the week).