One of the hardest things to draw is violent action from something normally inanimate -- you have to animate it unnaturally. One of the OTHER hard things to draw is the faces of people who lack dramatic features like beards, scars, or massive noses. Add to that the fact that I was in a hurry, and here's what you get:
I thought the footnote was a clever way of saying "no, this was not an ACCIDENT, nor was this the work of someone smashing the monitor over his head." Which is to say, the footnote allowed me to SEEM clever while actually being lazy. Oh, and the smudgy spiral in the footnote is there to protect Sam Rostwerk's privacy.
--Howard