Wellp. Not much to say about this page – it pretty well speaks for itself. Sorry it took all that extra time but I hope you can see why.
As for me, it’s been a really trying week but I think I came out on top of it, for the time being. I’m badly in need of a break, sometime soon. (From work, that is, not the comic – it’s the one thing I want to be doing MORE of, not less!). I have two weeks left before I deliver a major project, and then it all comes onto the next big thing. In between, though, I might try to slip in a little bit of time off – a few long weekends, maybe.
In the meantime, I want to draw some special attention to the Spiderforest Webcomic Podcast. There’s a new one this week, in which I had a chance to interview longtime collaborator and fellow military sci fi comic artist Tony Bourne, creator of the comic The 388th. It’s a really great show and it goes live on Tuesday this week – I hope you’ll all listen to it!
See you all again soon!
The Russian royalists are a bit more thorough in their anti-communism than I would have expected…
Does the UNA know what their equipment is being used for?
Good question. Hardening of affect is one of the signs of war fatigue.
What stage of the invasion is this?
Are they trying to kill as many people as possible before they are forced to withdraw?
Are they trying to “pacify” the city they are occupying?
Are they bogged down in urban warfare and just trying to systematically destroy any “enemies” they find?
Of course they do. They are communists after all. Who cares, they are not humans, right?
On the other hand that is how total war looks like.
This is the world of hardened nationalism and rampant McCarthism.
The most banal, and insane thing, is that troops that go such lenghts (assuming that here we are shown a warcrime here), are second or third generation of political refugees who personaly haven’t experianced purges and have no real connection with previous culture people living ther, per se.
Only stories of parents or grandparents and everpresent extreme propaganda.
“Maybe she’s still alive…?”
Maybe.
As a native German I really appreciate this kind of scorched earth policy. Only way to be sure, right?
😀
No risk of further insurrection if everything is burned to the ground!
Might be effective but it’s still awful.
Methods are not important. Efficency is what counts in the end.
>:D
“Exploit what you conquer, for in the race for domination every resource is vital. History is written by the victors.”
Well done, my friend!
You’re almost Cardassian in your punctuality. 😉
“If in the end, if there are two of us left alive and one of them, then we have won”.
Yes?
Don’t try to be funny, becouse you are not now.
Roasting commies on an open fire, libtards bleeding from their nose.
Wow. Yikes, man. Just… YIKES.
That was crass I admit it.
Run, comrade officer. There is nothing more you can do here… run! Before they see you! Run, and live to fight another day for Mother Russia!
I’m pretty sure this is the name I first used, instead of “I forget what I was called before” or “IFWIWCB”
I really like how the flamethrower soldiers are in battlesuits – and the one specifically said to be highly adaptable to dangerous environments, too! No more being burned alive if a bullet ruptures the tank and the fuel is ignited!
That didn’t really happen though. Flamethrowers in movies use flammable gas, which is very visually spectacular but real military flamethrowers use flammable liquid with non-flammable gas to propel the liquid. Means it burns a lot longer and sticks around, unlike flammable gas that gets burned up immediately.
So if you hit the fuel tank on a real flamethrower it would either leak out or you’d get a temporary jetpack without control. This is even explicitly stated in many flamethrowers operating manuals, that they DON’T explode into flames if the fuel tank gets hit by a bullet.