Books Don't Work Here

The dramatic lighting in panel 5 is 100% natural, and not him exploiting villainous tropes, you can tell because there was no boom of thunder to go along with it. Also the street light already being out. The cellphone is casting the red light no doubt from one of the pages strewn with brick buildings, and the bus lights aren’t a factor because… I got nothing on that. He just doesn’t strike me as someone to abuse tropes like that.