In these paintings, Hancock revisits an earlier work entitled "Step and Screw!," extracting and enlarging graphic images onto ink and paper collaged onto canvas. In this work, Guston's hooded Klansman hands Torpedo Boy a lightbulb, villain and hero facing off in this familiar episode of exchange. Hancock often uses plays in scale to rearticulate and revisit significant narratives vignettes and characters from his ongoing Moundverse saga—each subsequent iteration allowing for formal experimentation and the development of new layers of meaning and symbolism.

Hancock’s black and white palette strips the formal and narrative elements in these works down to their studs to create paintings of pure graphic intensity. This binary palette is also suggestive of the oppositional, universal forces embodied within the characters of Torpedo Boy and the Klansman—good and evil, Black and white, light and dark—yet leaves space for all the grey in between.