Poor Major Rucker. He should listen to Oscar-Four-Bravo. Oscar knows a thing or two.
This page was the result of something I never do – I drew it in anger. Not anger exactly, just… frustration? I don’t know. I have no idea HOW I did this, but I feel a combination of pissed off and depressed, which is usually a recipe for disaster when artwork is concerned. But I’m not going to write anything else about it this week. It’s been one of those weeks where I feel like I’ve done nothing but make piles of mistakes, and everything that seems right ends up being totally wrong, and it’s left me feeling irritable and tired. Ugh. I better just call it. What a mess.
Hey, here’s to the next one, huh, guys?
I know exactly how you feel. This whole weekend has just been extremely unfortunate. My school water polo team flew to nationals out of state, and we got caught in a storm and our eight hour flight turned into a twenty two hour slog. Then we lost painfully a lot. Now we’re stranded in Maine since all flights we could have taken got cancelled.
Keep up the brilliant work, keep on moving forward.
And DEFEND!
Ugh. Flight delays are just the worst. Especially return flights, when all you want is to be home in your own bed sleeping it off.
It happens to the best of us.
In the meantime: Open warfare against the communists? How have all these “incidents” from Scimitar to Singapore not caused atomic warfare until now?
Also: “ATM! Incoming!”
From what I’ve gathered in the comic so far, atomic weapons are pretty much brand new. Besides, with American forces coming into direct, open conflicts with communist forces in Korea and Vietnam, one could ask why neuclear weapons were not deplyed there.
In fact, the atomic bomb was seriously considered as a means of countering the massive Chinese human wave tactics employed in the latter stages of the Korean war.
First atomic detonation, conducted by Germany under the codename “Alter Mann,” occurred in 1974 at Point Vela in the South Atlantic. So atomic weapons are a very new invention. And all sides are paranoid about escalation, or were, until it actually happened, at the end of Chapter 2.
Not quite so crazy – happened in our world several times: Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, to name a few.
Whoops. I was thinking Russians. Never mind.
American and Russian pilots did fight each other in Korea, as well, actually. Both sides kept it secret to avoid escalating the war.
So Rucker is suprised Oscar links in to his frequency to advice? Seems like autonomous armored vehciles tend to “expand” their initial programming and interfere as they seem fit. This is a disturbing development.
Mike might just be another incident… or the culmination of previous incidents. Or just another avatar of something greater going on?
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You might very well think that, but of course, I couldn’t possibly comment. 😀
I thought the same thing. Shows that Mikes behaviour is not a new occurrence. Ofcourse Mike might be alot more advanced than Oscar ever was….I wonder if crews kept quiet about it. Humans tend to personalize equipment alot. And An extra crew member to keep an eye on things…well. Id keep quiet about that if the box saved my arse repeatedly.
Is it still considered stupid to bring a tank into narrow city canyons?
Without infantry support, I’d say, yes.
“Hey Ivan! Collectivize this!”
Nice cannon.
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Well on the plus side the tank is the best protected in the world. I hope I am right..
Yes, well… 😉
wow just wow really I thought the T90 had to have a rail gun to pop it open