Vertigo Pop Tokyo 1 page 15

Maki's brother Ryuji, wuss though he is, is a Yakuza, not a very reliable one. He has been sent to collect payment from the owner of a video game arcade, but once inside he spends his time playing games. His close superior Hara shows up and chastises him.
The opening statement on the page, "I never thought speaking English could be so dangerous," sets us up to look for danger. So Seth plays a little trick on us in the first frame, giving us Ryuji pointing a gun out at a foe just over our left shoulder, and rejoicing over his great shot. Ah, then we see that it's a video game that he is rejoicing over like an adolescent.

Hara and Ryuji are like a pair of comedians from the 50's, like Abbott and Costello, where one of them is naive and foolish and the other is grumpy and cynical. One of them is the pratfall guy and is always being pushed, hit, and poked by the other for his supposed stupidity. But it is the loser we root for. In this case they both have absurd hairstyles, but Ryuji's is, in my opinion, absurd but cute, and Hara's is merely ridiculous.

The bottom two frames feature the shop owner, Nishizaki. It is his scared face that we see up close in the left frame and directly at the vanishing point of the right frame. Is it an accident that above him on the right are what looks like a row of teeth, so he is pictured inside the open mouth of something about to eat him?