Wow. No sooner do I get better from my last sickness than a new one hits me. Some genius decided that the middle of the work week was the best time to start removing the carpet in our office, and so ten years of dust, mold, and God only knows what was thrown pretty much right in my face. So now I have some bizarre respiratory infection. I’m really bummed out.
Nevertheless, I have produced this page! Poor Colonel Haulley.
Sorry not to be more engaged, this go-round, but I’m coughing, sneezing, and all that like there’s never going to be another tomorrow. I’m just going to take some medicine and go to sleep. Until next week, folks – steer clear of biological weapons. I wish I had.
Man down! Well I guess two men down; artist and creation. I hope you feel better soon dude.
I think by then there are several more down…and nobody can get an exact count without joining them: plus I’ll be shocked if at least the first tank doesn’t get bit…an ambush would HAVE to figure armor would show up.
Beyond a certain point I guess he wouldn’t really know or care. He’s in his own world now.
By the way, thanks, Tony. This one is a doozy, and no mistake.
The other one can penetrate, THIS bullet too?
You’ve got to be kidding me,
Of course it can penetrate, there’s nothing to stop it – no plates on the side.
It looks like the bullet did hit the lover edge of the vest and that, coupled with the fact it had a lot more to travel through Haulley’s abdominal cavity than through his neck, caused it to fragment – what we see exiting his body is not a single bullet but several bits and pieces of it, causing a large, jagged exit wound.
We can only guess what kind of carnage that wreaked on Haulley’s internal organs.
I guess they’re going to resect quite a bit of his intestine to save him. And let’s not talk about post op infections, etc, etc.
Infections are probably the biggest problem he’ll have to deal with, if he survives. Plus, if it’s twenty years before the action of the story, that makes it 1977. Even in this world, with its advanced military technology, body armor is only so good.
Considering this is all a very traumatic flashback, Haul is one luck bastard to survive a neck wound and a gut shot.
It happens. But it’s still going to leave a mark, as they say.
♪oh whatcha say…♫
…Im sorry…
No. Stop. Bad.
It was late then for me to stop my mind, and my fingers for typing.
And is again now to reply.
…ain’t no gonna tell you off or get cocky though… the beer got right to the head of the last guy and ended up in from of the counter didn’t it.
I’ll cut it now.
“Where the hell’s that medic?!”
Probably blown in half at this point
Panel one is great. The mymics and posture.
I wonder if this is what really happened or is just a metapher for what is going on in Haulley’s mind right now with MIKE poking around in his memories.
Each time MIKE has tapped into someone’s mind so far it has been a traumatizing event. I wonder if there is purpose to this?
Is he learning or instigating is the question, and to what purpose.
I would think that this is what happened…or at least it’s the way he thinks it happened: touchy thing memory is.
Very perceptive, on all counts, guys! 😀
Uh-oh; this does not look good for our hero. 🙁
You’re the first person to call Haulley a “hero.” 😀 At the very least, I’ve always found him sympathetic, but only because I knew that this happened to him, when nobody else did.
SARGE! NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Mmyeah…
Hmm. IRL body armor would stop 7,62×39 Soviet and 5,56×45 NATO at that range, i.e. about 100m. An average shot might hit, but not with that precision. 7,62×51 NATO ball or 7,62x54R Soviet ball might penetrate, the AP (armor piercing) versions of the same rounds will penetrate. AP are used in MMGs, but two single, well placed rounds that BYPASS boby armor indicate that the hapless Lt and Haulley have encountered the infantryman’s nightmare, a sniper, or more likely company sharpshooter. This would be armed with an SVD, a good weapon in trained hand so long as the ammo is good. Often, soviet ammo was quite bad, or merely expired, leading to poor performance and accuracy.
Get well soon.
Well, IRL body armor of the generation being used in 2014. In Haulley’s mind it’s 1977, a much more primitive time, even in his world. And heck, with the cannons the power armored troops tote around in their version of 1997, well… they have pretty tough battlefields.
Maybe when you goto print with this, you should add someting like “place: 1977” to the chopper page to give people a point in time reference for armor capabilities.
Also from my point of view it looks like a kidney shot on that side. entering and exiting below the rib cage. possibly damaging the right kidney and large instestine. The intestine could be fixed, and we have two kidneys, so he would survive if the bleeding can be controlled in time.
Honestly he probably would’ve been fine if it tagged him in the plate unless it was tungcore
and then you have more questions about where the heck they’re getting the stuff.
Alternatively, it’s just incredible misfortune. You never know.
well thats some fucked up shit
your sickness
Yeah, tell me about it. I just got over the last one. And having had pneumonia (plus complications) in the past, it always makes me edgy about respiratory ailments.
At least you are better off than Haulley, though respiratory infections is no child’s play either.
I am hoping his pelvis was not torn to pieces as well. I guess no morphine would be needed; the pain would probably render him unconscious in an instant anyway… and in a dangerous location.
Let’s hope someone drags him back to one of those Chinooks.