Episode 4 - Page 25
posted 10th Oct 2021, 9:24 AM
10th Oct 2021, 9:24 AM
mars
I wish there was a comic sound effect for the old western high-noon soundtrack.
Do-we-oh-we-ooooooh, wah waaah wah. You know the one.
Anyways. DRAW!
It pained me to draw this page 'cause I really wanted to jump straight into the action, but needed oooone more page of establishing buildup. Don't worry, the payoff will be worth it (least, i'll do my best to make it so ;)
SO. Moving on to other things.
Halloween Pinup polls are now closed.
We've got, in no particular order :
Alice - Red Sonja
KATE - Tinkerbell
Anna - Playboy bunny. You little scamps.
SO, I was initially going to do a single all-in-one picture with the three of 'em, but since some people pointed out, their costumes don't match in any real way, i'm gonna split them into 3 separate pinups.
Think I might change how future group polls are handled haha, should have probably been "pick the halloween THEME" instead of "pick separate costumes" buuuuut fuck it. Ya'll are gettin' the works, so stay tuned ;)
Now! i've got two Canadian thanksgivings to go to over the next two days, as well as a bunch of other week-destroying tasks to get done so that I can squeeze in enough time to finish next Sunday's page and start on Halloween pictures.
So i'll leave you to it! Enjoy!
And thanks so much for all the comments <3
~Mars
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10th Oct 2021, 10:16 AM
Panda Cop
I am reminded of tge anime movie spriggan
They talked about energy dampers
You ever seen it? You would probably like it i saw it on yt years ago
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11th Oct 2021, 12:47 PM
mars
Mmm not sure.
That being said, i'm pretty sure 99% of the pseudo scientific terms I throw out in this comic are actually mixed up terms from various Star Trek TNG episodes.
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10th Oct 2021, 2:36 PM
jamie59
Alice draws on her inner Clint Eastwood.
Just make it a Party then it doesn't matter if they don't match up.
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11th Oct 2021, 12:46 PM
mars
She's the Man with No Name - except not quite a man, plus she has a very knowable and often-repeated name.
But the Gist of it is the same!!
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10th Oct 2021, 8:14 PM
Chaucer59
Holy Supernovae, Batman, Alice is fusion-powered!
Uh, that or she’s done a shit-tonne of coke.
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11th Oct 2021, 12:44 PM
mars
Pffft, when you fly around in a space ship shooting rayguns at holographic super women and thawing out cryo soldiers, you don't need coke to keep up the energy levels!
That being said, she's partial to a good glass of Rosé from time to time.
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14th Oct 2021, 7:47 PM
Chaucer59
As a recovering alcoholic (40 years) and former wine snob, I refuse to accept that any rosé can be classified as “good.” The only classes of rosé I recollect are execrable, abominable, crime-against-viticulture, crime-against-humanity, and meh. But, hey, de gustibus.
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11th Oct 2021, 2:45 AM
SG
Is this gun safe even for the wielder? I mean, never mind the target... the electrical sparking that she used to taser Anna seem to be a mere side effect of the gun charging...
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11th Oct 2021, 12:41 PM
mars
Absolutely not. If there was a warning label, it would be : Nobody Use this Device, Ever.
For an actual in-universe answer though : No, it's entirely unwieldy, dangerous and impractical in all senses of the words. It's why everyone else uses lesser weapons - such as the laser rocket launcher style weapon from earlier. Less power, but also isn't a compressed football sized WMD that comes within a chance to electrocute you with every squeeze of the trigger.
I'm planning on getting into the weapon a little bit in this chapter (eventually). Not hugely, but expand a little bit of the history behind it anyways
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11th Oct 2021, 10:06 AM
Thracecius
Go, Alice, GO!
She may be a bit temperamental, unreliable and possibly even suicidal, but Alice never disappoints when she pulls out all the stops for reckless bravado. This is a moment worthy of her portfolio of mayhem. :)
If you need a musical cue, Mars, I suggest either the showdown music from "A Fistful of Dollars" (probably what you were thinking of, or "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly") or from "Kelly's Heroes". The later didn't end in a shootout, but it did involve facing down a tank, so it definitely has the same sort of bravado on display. Plus, it's Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas all in the same scene focused on one last ditch effort to remove a tank as an obstacle, so it's fitting. ;)
Good luck with the busy schedule and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! I'm not going to mind if you combine the pin-ups if that's easier (or more fun - I can only imagine their expressions sharing a photo op), but do whatever works for you, I'm certainly not going to complain. :D
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11th Oct 2021, 12:31 PM
mars
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 100%. It was all I could do not to set up some sort of parody scene... but we don't need 20 pages of back and forth eye glances between Alice and a Tank, so here we are :D
As for the Halloween pinups, I think I have a few ideas (Spoiler alert : I started said ideas on Saturday ;0 ) so provided my hand doesn't fall off in the next two weeks, should be fun for all!
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