The problem I have with fight scenes is that you either have to use creative viewing angles (panel 1), or draw everyone in profile (panels 3 and 4), or you’ll end up drawing somebody’s rear end. The one-page-a-week webcomic also creates pacing problems with fight scenes — the guns in panel 4 have been dropped on the ground, but you can’t see that until the next page. What I’m saying is, fight scenes are hard. 🙂
No poll this week. Thank you for all the answers last week! I do like the 24-page chapter format, which is why I’m using it. But I’m willing to adapt to what the readers want. So I have ideas for more polls, although if you have poll ideas then let’s hear them! Who’s the favorite character, who’s most likely to live, who deserves to die? (I know who might win that one.)
Jacob: Either one's a plan.
Joey: Bad plan. Kevin's been turbo-charging my augments. That stuff doesn't even sting anymore. And you're not the only one with a --
…When I think “gun control”… this isn’t really what I had in mind 😀
Somebody didn’t listen in Dr. Spengler’s 101 on zappy guns.
Time for the backup gun – a classic slugthrower.
The anti-gun field would hurt a normal person, but is unsurprising in their case. However, the number of things they can shrug off is pushing the boundaries of material science. Skin that can totally withstand both bullets and the heat of a gun-vaporizing pulse (one after the other) while remaining flexible and remotely human in texture and appearance. Their muscles are apparently more reliable force drivers than gun chambers. Theoretically, you could probably keep up any movements and regeneration with enough energy, but where can you get that without the genocide folks being radioactive?
Remember, the rail guns aren’t shooting bullets but small needles tipped with neurotoxin. If you’re immune to the toxin then they’re just like a bad mosquito bite.
The electrical discharge is dangerous enough that it made them drop their guns at six foot range. (As I said, the guns aren’t vaporized, merely dropped. This is another situation where the weekly format is a liability; someone reading the completed story will immediately see guns on the ground in the next panel.)
This vaguely reminds me of a moment in The Matrix where two guys shoot at one other and the bullets flatten against each other. But better!
Remember troops when using rail guns you are holding a substation level power source in your hand. Don’t get it wet and keep it maintained or it will overload.
Maybe the last panel should have shown them still grimicing a bit from the electric shock and the guns just about to fall out of frame. Or did you *want* the guns to appear to vaporize?
The rising smoke from the ground clued me in to their pistols being dropped, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t otherwise have thought that the guns had been vaporized. The setting just doesn’t seem hightech enough to allow for something like that.
If I had more time to finish this page and more talent as an artist, I would have come up with a better way to present what happened in that last panel. As it is (and with time pressures being what they are), I’m going to have to let this page rely upon the next for clarification.
Having finished the next page, I think the sequence works. But yes, I do wish I had the time and talent to make it better.
Some “Kirby’s Crackles” can be pretty sexy!
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“The problem I have with fight scenes is that you either have to use creative viewing angles … or you’ll end up drawing somebody’s rear end.”
As if drawing (or looking at) various characters’ rear ends is always a problem in comics. ;D
Wow… That gave me my “I cant breath anymore” laugh. You know the one were you want to laugh but youve already deflated your lungs so your face turns red, and you fall over.
Remus:“But yes, I do wish I had the time and talent to make it better.”
By taking the time to do this strip
you are making your talent better. 🙂