This is a rather interesting piece of art: like Renaissance paintings, it shows events that happened at different times occurring simultaneously. You have to read it counterclockwise to figure it out. Your eye is drawn first to the fellow who sprang out of the window; not only is he verbalizing his plans, he’s quite specific - the hay in the truck will break his fall. He actually has enough time to begin another thought: “an ----” before he gives us a classic comics-dialogue one-two punch, what th -- and ayeeeeeee!

Reading down to the left, there’s a crony telling Aces to jump - but after that, he’s struck on the head by a policeman. Can’t be prior, can’t be simultaneous. His definition of “too hot” is an understatement, since he’s just witnessed another policeman shoot a passenger in the hay-truck dead. (That sounds like hardboiled dialogue: he’s hay-truck dead, mac.) The policeman engages in some playful banter as he kills the hood: End of the line, goon boy!

Moving to the right, we have the ramming that moved the hay-truck. But why ram a hay-truck? What policeman would see a hay-truck, conclude that Aces was going to jump out of the courthouse window, and smash into it while simultaneously shooting the driver?

As I’m sure they said when great Renaissance paintings were revealed: THIS IS AWESOME.