I hate to be that guy, especially to [@Byrd Man] (sorry, mate), but isn't George Smiley a bit of a stretch? I just pulled out my copy of the Black Dossier and if you count all the panels, I doubt 'George' gets to a full page. If you hadn't told me, I might well have missed the reference (I probably did before) and it's not like he resembles Le Carré's character in a way that matters. Considering there's so many spy characters that can be pulled from comics, it seems a bit to odd to take one from literature.