meaning
I am reading a book about comics. This sentence is about a comic in this book:

"In one of the final frames, we see the push man with an enigmatic expression on his
face—the push man has been pushed."

is "the push man has been pushed" a sentence in the original comic or is it a concluding sentence from the writer of the book I am reading?

Question

meaning
I am reading a book about comics. This sentence is about a comic in this book:

"In one of the final frames, we see the push man with an enigmatic expression on his
face—the push man has been pushed."

is "the push man has been pushed" a sentence in the original comic or is it a concluding sentence from the writer of the book I am reading?

Answer

It's hard to know without seeing more context but if it was a quote, I would expect to see " ". I guess it's concluding sentence, playing with the word "push".