Talk:Willie Garvin

Firearms

 * He doesn't like pistols (because he thinks that guns give people to much confidence), and he and Modesty have also stated that he is a poor shot, but he has shown himself to be capable on the rare occasions that he uses such weapons.

I'm going to take that last bit out unless somebody can cite a specific instance when he's shown using a pistol. The closest I can think of is in "The Red Gryphon", where he overpowers a guard and steals the guard's gun... and when Modesty asks him later what he'd have done if he'd needed to use it, he says he would have thrown it. --Paul A 07:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * He also uses a gun during one of the early comic strips when he and Modesty are forced by Gabriel to take part in a series of "kill or be killed" tests. I say leave it in for now. It'll be about 2 weeks before I have time to go hunting for examples, but they are there. I'm also 99% certain he uses a gun in Cobra Trap. 23skidoo 14:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Subsequent to the above, I have reinstated the deleted content for now pending further discussion here. 23skidoo 17:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * He has always used rifles ("anything you can really sight"), as he did in I, Lucifer and Cobra Trap. It is uncommon for him to use pistols, though.  He did in The Gabriel Set-up, the third comic strip story, when he entered a room shooting with a pistol in each hand.  If memory serves, he shot a bad guy in the throat and thought something like "Strooth, right through the hooter.  Who always said I couldn't hit the inside of a barn, Princess?" -- Shane, June 28, 2007
 * Willie does know how to use a gun because in Willie the Djinn he was teaching show girls how to use a sten gun. -- Max  july 15 2007

Peter O'Donnell and the first and best MB artist Jim Holdaway based Willie Garvins look on actor Michael Caine of Zulu and Alfie fame. When I read Willies cockney dialog its with Michael Caines voice. In fact the Michael Caine movie Gambit very much resembles a Modesty and Willie caper. When a picture of Willie gets added to this article it should be by Jim Holdaway