[0833] The Divine Comedy, Page 30
└ posted on Thursday, 27 October 2016, by Novil
- Clerk: Good day.
- Larisa: You’re still open?
- Sandra: Larisa, let’s go!
- Clerk: According to paragraph 7.c of my work contract, a fire alarm doesn’t constitute a valid reason for leaving the workplace.
- Larisa: God bless American labor laws!
- Clerk: What can I do for you?
- Larisa: I’m interested in a weapon with which an innocent young girl can protect herself against–
- Clerk: Ah. In this case, I can recommend–
- Larisa: –100 ton killer machines made out of tempered steel!
- Clerk: Ah. In this case, I can recommend the M40 bazooka with XTC target detection system and rapid charge technology!
- Larisa: Now we’re talking!
- Clerk: Do you feel safer already?
- Larisa: Hell yeah!
Heavy duty is the best kind of duty, after all.
Larisa, has, become, DEATH. Well, its servant at least
There is no such thing as overkilll…. whichever of the Seventy Maxims that is…
Picturing Larissa with Schlock’s plasgun now, hmmmm….
Larisa feels safe now. Sandra not so much….
Now you’re playing with power!
god bless america
To be honest, the most illicit thing in that store is probably, the pepper spray.
Yah ‘MERICA!!!
Larisa, that’s a bazooka… not a flamethrower.
Please put it over your shoulder and beware of backblast 🙂
@ korblborp:
Maxim 37: There is no such thing as “overkill”. Only “open fire” and “reload”.
Schlock is terrifying enough with that gun. Larisa with it… no, it’s too much destruction to even contemplate.
Second, fourth, and seventh commandments (of firearm safety) Larisa…
@ MidoriLuna:
I know what you mean! In some places it is illegal to possess; stupid dumb laws that don’t prevent criminals from carrying their own pepper spray.
MidoriLuna wrote:
Pretty sure the contract is more illicit. OSHA has no sense of humor. ^_^
There’s a social commentary here, but I can’t find it under all the irony.
Ah, brings back memories of my childhood, before all this stupid gun control. Still wish I’d bought that Lahti 40mm anti-tank rifle they were selling in the back of the comic book, instead of that silly cardboard submarine.
As she says yes, the rest of the planet screams “NOOOO!”
This is hilarious, but you just know someone in the comments is going to get all defensive about American labor laws. So let’s just say in this universe, the Triangle Shirtwaist incident never happened. 🙂
Larisa, you do realize that you get one shot with a bazooka before you have to stop and reload, which is itself a not insignificant process?
Sorry Larisa, the background check… 😛
And God bless American firearms laws.
That’s great, but Larissa isn’t an innocent young girl, for someone with her background and experience, I’d recommend an Abrams tank.
Thisguy wrote:
Well by the shops standards she is pretty innocent… The worst weapon that she had ever held in her hand was flamethrower. (One of not so many weapons which are actually illegal to have without a lot of licenses in USA)
I love how the clerk took a moment before he just continued on with his normal sales pitch type banter.
However I do wonder if he’s the only person that doesn’t know who and what Larisa is…
Trimutius wrote:
Sorry? Only two states in the US require any sort of documentation for the purchase/possession of a flamethrower. California is one and that makes sense given the low ignition point of the entire state. Oregon, where I live, could care less.
@ korblborp:
CROSSOVER!
This must happen.
God bless America an our gun laws.
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
Yea, so put that back and ask for their selection of flamethrowers instead. Those isn’t listed as firearms, nor are they restricted in anyway so no background check or having to wait 14 days.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
I love this salesclerk.
who else died when of laughter at Sandra’s face in the last panel?
SHE might feel safer now – I don’t think that Sandra does.
This reminds me of “Hellsing Ultimate Abridged”: Give that b**** a cannon, b***** love cannons!
Autoskip wrote:
He sells weapons. He has no need to know who his customers are. Works even with European Governments not only with ‘merican gun shops.
(Hey look! Our ammunitions sale to countries like Saudi Arabia just sky rocketed … I wonder why.)
do you have that in fire Blue?
@ Xezlec:
Well I learned something.
Also, that was 1911. How far into the past should labor standards be able to be talked about without them being deemed too far into the past for them to be considered part of a modern discussion on labor laws?
Rapid charge technology? What is this? Doom II? It should come with heat seeking/lock-on capabilities as well! It’s now standard in Doom 2016!
Hope that things quick to learn, I know with a lot of our modern military equipment a good portion of it forgets the old rule of KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
Autoskip wrote:
Even if he did, I bet you it’s specified somewhere in his contract he has to sell weapons, especially to her!
@ Wanderer:
it has “rapid charge technology” one can assume it reloads itself. :3
The fact that Larisa just made a comment “God bless American Labor Laws” made it funnier considering the fact that Larisa is on the Devil’s side and considering who’s behind the divine assassination attempt of Sandra.
Panel 5: The customers always right! xD
Waiting for the angels to trick Larissa into killing Sandra.
@ Trimutius:
Actually flamethrowers are just about completely unregulated in the USA.
Technically bazookas could be bought, you’d just have to pay the 200$ tax stamp per round and get approved for each and everyone. Defense contractors dont sell to civilians however.
Last year a Chieftain tank came on the market with live 120mm cannon and assorted ammo in the USA. Price 250k$. You’d have to get ATF permission to buy since the cannon and ammo are destructive devices.
In the US, you’d be far more likely to find a flamethrower in a farm supply store than a gun shop. (They’re used for weed control.)
… I guess the Armbrust is a little out of date.
(The Armbrust is a single-use anti-tank bazooka which has a rocket-propelled grenade in one end, an equal weight counter-mass in the opposite end and an explosive charge in the middle. Setting off the charge propels the high explosive missile out the front and the counter-mass out the back. For fairly obvious reasons, one would not want to be standing directly behind it upon discharge.)
I have to assume that the guy behind the counter is actually Satan helping her some more. Explosive devices would need special permits; sale of any firearm or explosive device to a minor is simply illegal; no way could she have the money to pay for that; and as far as Google and Wikipedia know, there isn’t an M40 model of bazooka. (I did find an M40 recoilless rifle, but that was a crew-served weapon and much bigger than what we saw here.)
If she fires more than one shot from that thing then it definitely must be a magic item, so: Satan. The other person who might help her is Steve Jobs, and that thing isn’t thin or sleek enough; he wouldn’t be caught dead giving that to her, and he *is* dead so he has to worry about that.
1oldbear wrote:
you do realize that use of flamethrower as weapon constitutes a warcrime…
however since devices like that are often used to burn out grass and sterilize area they are not often considered a weapon.
on a completly unrelated note – I am in love with Larisa again after the last picture… To Hell and back 😀
Thisguy wrote:
I think she was talking about Sandra, not herself.
@ steveha:
Most likely not Devil, but someone working for Devil. Evil one has many accomplices.
@ steveha:
Also, she has fake ID and 9999,99 $
I’m imagining Larissa’s voice in the last panel as… I can’t put my finger on his name, but it’s definitely some buff dude with a gruff voice. Not as “gravelly” as Heavy Weapons Guy, rougher than the Duke, very similar to uh, I think he was called Biceps-something, the pegasus with bulging muscles and tiny wings from Friendship is Magic.