Meh, had a little trouble with this myself, only it was due to me being sloppy and inattentive to what I was doing. Mostly it was me trying to upload a few pages on very little sleep. Sleep is NOT over-rated.
It is never easy to learn the ways of a leader. Vision and drive are always a preferable method to lead and usually with great and wondrous results. However, in the real world of humans sometimes it is necessary to lead from the point of a gun. This will be a very hard lesson for Acantha to learn, but learn she must and he knows it.
Definitely going to need a training course. Few things are worse than pulling the gun and thinking you're safe and then discovering you have no idea how to turn the safety off.
Ussually it's ,"Oh God it hurts, make it stop hurting, he's gonna kill me now, why didn't the damn thing fire", or "Why the hell am I sitting on my ass and everybody is laughing at me?" my favorite is,"Gawddammit! my head hurts and there's blood running down my face, this dam thing kicks like a fricken mule, and who is the idiot that designed this with that fancy handgrip with the curved lip."
I guarantee the ones that do that number are the ones that learned how to fire a weapon from watching TV. What I move for cover when I see about to happen are the idiots that think you hold the weapon one handed and sideways when you fire.
Upon reflection giving the girls a couple toys like Lynn started off with might have been a smarter thing. Supposing of course that Aeneas had the technology to do it. Of course right now all he is doing is thinking about keeping Acantha from being pregnant by her brother forever, not the psychological results of what committing fratricide would do to Acantha. Typical straight line computer logic, remove blockages once and for ever.
Oh the Teddy Ruxpin she had in her backpack obviously, give it to Decimus and hope that among other things he's a furvert.
OH, wait, was I being sarcastic? The Taser Blade of course.
well the back back had some things too.. but yeah the taser blade was confiscated by the gutter gal. dont worry we will see it again. the back pack still hasnt show up >_<
If Aeneas was a straight line logical unit I would agree. But given he is a unit that has been damaged and for who knows how long had a literal torrent of data stream into him it isn't a far reach to think he is a great deal more aware of things as he's been forced to watch the patterns form around the various people and cities. I would not doubt for a second that this gun he has given them is possibly the only high speed communication device he has and these gals will be carrying it out for him. Something tells me that when the weapon fires it will be Acantha pulling the trigger but Aeneas making it go off.
He did say that it will not fire there. this tells me he controls the weapon to some degree. Maybe even to the point of being able to verify what is at the business end of the barrel.
The weapon will protect her from her brother taking his liberties but it will also end him as Aeneas wants to be repaired and or have more interaction with the humans he has been segregated from.
Ouch! I feel that one for you, Centcomm! The first work I posted here had somehow gotten all the pages scrambled (I'm sure it was my own fault but I still haven't figured it out.) Still, the pages do appear to be in order so that's all to the good. Also, great update. Looking forward to more.
"The power cell was very complex to make".
Cent, hats off. What A. just handed Cantha probably makes a Black Angel's armament look like a Nerf gun, right?
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the gun is still under spoiler wraps atm .. *winks* to vote theres a "ratings thing at the top and on the comment box "if you are logged into a comic fury account. the top web comics box is at the bottom ( currently at 128 ranking the little TWC icon at the bottom :D ) * and thank you so much! * also with a free Comic fury account you can subscribe to the comic and that helps the position in top comics :D
CF is happy it seems...
Now you can relax the rest of the night in an "AUUUGH!" free zone.
Page looks good, dialog is solid as always. =)
Also, I would insist on some rounds on the range...
OH, wait, was I being sarcastic? The Taser Blade of course.
He did say that it will not fire there. this tells me he controls the weapon to some degree. Maybe even to the point of being able to verify what is at the business end of the barrel.
The weapon will protect her from her brother taking his liberties but it will also end him as Aeneas wants to be repaired and or have more interaction with the humans he has been segregated from.
;-D
Cent, hats off. What A. just handed Cantha probably makes a Black Angel's armament look like a Nerf gun, right?
P.S. Love you stuff. Where do I vote? ..and how can I help get your comic out?