I Need To Check On Something
Oh my goodness, yes. Finally, you get to see that gigantic pistol everyone’s toting around! And the young Lieutenant here is nervous about that thing with good reason! Yes indeed.
In spite of a lot of work and meetings this week, I was able to really get into this page and add in all the detail I really like to. Sometimes, even now, I have to cut corners, but this page was really a great deal of fun to draw, and came out as I’d wanted. Sometimes it all just clicks, thank God.
So a few things. First, let me tell you again in case you missed it that I did a little charity work recently for Comics Creators for Freedom, who are doing a fundraising drive for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, from now until 20 January. Check out their website and if you feel comfortable doing it, please consider a donation.
Second, I am so totally thrilled to have made to such a high position in the comics rankings lately – I appreciate the votes and the visibility! So to keep you all voting, and to say “thanks!” I thought I’d start trying to put up a new incentive every week if I possibly can, and this week is a preliminary sketch from part of Chapter 4. It’s an old friend who will be coming back… vote and see!
And also, finally, as I often like to do, I want to direct you to a comic I’ve discovered that looks to be a really good one. It’s called May The Rain Come, and although it’s only on deviantart.com at the moment, I think it has enormous potential to go WAY beyond dA, which, though a big enough community, is not reaching the kind of pure readership I think it should. A little prodding from some very refined readers like you guys might get the creator to put it out to an even broader audience, and even get it in print sooner than later! It’s the story of William Weasel, who comes home to his small town after years away at war, only to find his life changed beyond recognition and his home town in the grip of a long and mysterious drought. It’s drawn in an anthropomorphic style reminiscent of the classic Disney films of the Silver Age, but it is one of the truly contemplative and engrossing character studies I always wish animated films in the USA would explore, but they never do. Please check it out – it’s worth the time.
So that’s enough outta me. More to come, I can tell you, but for now, I must sleep. Have a good week, everyone. Be well!
Never argue with the guy holding the gun.
Unless you have a bigger gun.
–M
Rucker sporting his new “You’re gonna get hurt”-face. 0_o
I gotta ask, is the revolver standard issue or is it the Major’s personal weapon? If it’s standard issue, I’d have to ask why? With reliable semi-automatic systems having been avalible for about a century, it seems like a revolver would have to many limitations.
On the previous page, Mr Average told us it was standard issue and that this particular revolver was an insanely powerful weapon, firing jet-assisted rounds for cracking open powered armour at close range.
Secondly from a visual standpoint, it looks bad-ass and more to the point its a movie reference, the gun being based on Deckard’s gun from Bladerunner.
Yes to that. But to reiterate, the UNA chose the Browning Mach Saber because the revolver is safer, more accurate and able to bear a larger caliber with less weight in the action. An “in universe” explanation is that the jet boost exhaust from magazine fed HEJA pistols had a tendency in testing to ignite the propellant of the other rounds in the magazine, so a buffered revolver with a self sealing blowdown drum was seen as the safer alternative.
Can you dig it?
And also it just looks big and intimidating, which is the reason lots of police still carry Colt Python revolvers instead of Glocks or Sig Sauers.
–M
I’ve chosen combat revolvers for duty carry over semis in the past and stand by my choice. Currently it’s a 8 round .357mag by Smith & Wesson.
In the end it’s all personal preference, but the so-called “tactical community” discusses the re-emergence of the wheelgun as a ideal tactical choice and makes a lot of good points, some of which I agree with.
But I this place is not the kind of place to discuss such matters.
The gun looks damn cool and probably the most popular Sci-Fi weapon ever, only secound to the pulse rifles from Aliens. And that’s fine by me.
I forgot about that one! Ridley Scott flicks always have very carefully designed armaments. The M44 Pulse Rifle is probably even more iconic than the phaser at that!
–M
Coolness always overcomes practicality in stories, didn’t ya know? And that gun IS cool AND scary-looking.
Indeed. And it looks like the PK-D “Police Special” from Blade Runner, which is all that and more. Probably the most iconic hand weapon in Sci Fi history except for the Phaser.
–M
OK now it’s getting real!
😀
–M
The innuendo on this page is great. It’s my favorite of the chapter.
Yeah, I like that although he has been weak and emotional in this chapter so far, Rucker can still muscle people with little effort when he pulls himself together.
–M
Woohoo! The Blade Runner Gun! That Gun! WOO!