Inspiration Striking

In today's Judge Parker, we see the titular character, or at least the original titular character (his son's the judge now) and his trophy wife as they discover the masked, heavily armed men who are patrolling the jungle location where their son is getting married are not, as they had thought, guards for the bride's father's hospital, but rather, not to put to fine a point on it, violent criminals:

Katherine looks like most people would, but check out the judge. This is a man who's just seen the hook for his next book.