[0985] Sneak Attack
└ posted on Thursday, 3 May 2018, by Novil
- Larisa: Today, contract killer Larisa Fuoco will give the godmother of the hated Orsetto family, Sandra Lavatore, a lethal dose of H2O.
- Larisa: Like a ninja, Fuoco sneaks past Lavatore’s guards undetected.
- Woman: ?
- Larisa: Naturally, Fuoco would have preferred a lighter as murder weapon, but it was unfortunately confiscated by her mother last Tuesday.
- Larisa: Say your last prayers, wretched scum!
- Larisa: This works even worse than expected.
- Sandra: Fuoco, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
- Caption: Big Bucket o’ Ice Water
I felt that. It hasn’t happened yet, but I felt it.
First! I posted first!
farking gosh dernit foiled again
Larissa should know better than to attack with her anti-element, water. Lighter not preferred but rather required.
Defensive boyfriend.
Why is today’s comic so arousing? I think I have a problem.
@ Blaran Shast:
yes
Is it actually big bucket of Ice Water, or is it a diversion?
The funny thing is, all things considered, that might actually kill her.
Larisa, I’m disappointed in you. One of the primary rules of warfare: make sure your weapons work. You had plenty of time to see what that squirt pistol was capable of. No one to blame but yourself.
inb4 gun control. Someone will start it, believe me.
Can we take a moment to appreciate Cloud’s excellent taste in water weapontry? As an engineer who likes water guns and nerf guns, I can say that this is NOT a recent gun that has had its firepower (ironically and pun intended) watered down for child safety groups. From a visual inspection, it’s probably on par with the Super Soaker CPS 2000, which according to my family’s calculations is the equivalent of a portable hose with a nozzle on it (in regards to water distance and water amount outputed in time, as compared using this: http://www.isoaker.com/Armoury/Analysis/1996/super_soaker_cps2000.php , and our own tests using a hose, water balloon filling nozzle, and bucket). It looks bigger than the CPS 2000, so I’d guess it can last longer too. That waterment (water + armament), if commercial, would be legendary.
TL:DR; that gun has the firepower of a focussed garden hose on full blast (for a few shots), and I want it to be real SO BAD.
R.I.P. Lisa.
Also, does it count as a “cold day in h*** (heck synonym)” if Lisa dies from this? We know that she works there if she dies, and if she’s still freezing from the attack when she gets there, it’d at least be a “few cold seconds in h*** (heck synonym),” so does this count?
Maybe I should rename my avatar to W4t3rGun_N3rd….
@ 0m3t14:
Had a CPS 2000…that was an amazing water gun. Actually had felt recoil!
“Put the water piece away, Cloud, they’re calling the cops.”
“It’s a league water fight, Larisa.”
I love the Italian wordplay xD
“orsetto lavatore” in Italian means raccoon (or, literally, washing bear) and “fuoco” means fire. ^^
0m3t14 wrote:
The CPS2000 is good, but NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, beats the Stream Machine QF2000. The QF2000 is designed to do one thing– put two liters of water 70 feet away in about 3 seconds.
It’s not a super soaker– it’s basically a water cannon. What it loses in precision it makes up for in sheer volume.
Is it bad that I initially thought that the brunette in the second panel was Luna before I noticed that she’s TOO round of figure to be her?
“You are about to enter a world of pain with which you are not familiar!” 😉 🙂 🙂
This is so lovely… Reminds me of stargate episode where Tialc is saved by a little girl so he gives her a new water gun… With better range firepower and ammo supply
Is this about to be a ‘clever girl(boy)’ moment?
@ MarqFJA87:
What do you think?
One of two things will happen in the next panel:
Cutting to an unrelated happening,
or
Cloud’s retaliation leading to something insane happening.
I have noticed that the comics from the latest arc seem to come in pairs. Setup then payoff.
This may be one of the most adorable strips of Sandra and Woo I’ve read.
Yes! This is arc is what Sandra and Woo is (for me at least). I’m tired with tiny black holes indoors, anti-gravity and such. This is spot on. Slice of life, with a bit weird but believable teenagers. The talking raccoon should be the fantastic element. A little “out of reality” once in a while is fun too but this arc is right up my alley. Thanks Novil.
Well I’ve expressed my opinion and am aware that others may feel different. Have a nice day 🙂
ClawHeart wrote:
Then there are the primary rules for assassins. Like getting tunnel vision on your target, checking for bodyguards and preparing escape routes. Probably. You see, I’m no assassin myself…
Paeris Kiran wrote:
Ahh, yes… I remember this episode. I also remember that after the girl had run off (having first shot T’ealc), T’ealc pulled a larger version out of his bag, before setting off in pursuit.
Poor, poor Larisa… 🙁
Hitboy to the rescue!
Cloud has clearly been planning this for a long time if he took the trouble to label his bucket of ice water.
@ 627235:
The rules for assassins depend on the mission parameters. In some cases the assassin is considered expendible provided the target is eliminated.
Psiberkiwi wrote:
Shooting Daniel…
@ Paeris Kiran:
Everyone wants to shoot Daniel.
Big Bucket O’ Ice Water for the win. ;D
@0m3t14
That’s not a super-soaker; look how he’s loading it.
That’s one of those slurp-2-fill & squeeze-to-shoot style water guns.
Super Soaker specifically avoids those types for the most part because…
1. They don’t look as impressive.
2. You’re stuck where the bucket is.
3. Their reload-rate is lousy (less of a gun and more of a grenade launcher)
4. They’re way more impressive depending on your arm strength (maybe too impressive for Super Soaker’s legal team!)
I used to have one like that, but it had the added advantage of instead of filling from an icebucket, there was a water-backpack you could fill it from that had a tube connecting. (ZX-2000 if I recall). Granted, you could only get about full-blast shots out of it, but dagnabit it you could get a whole opposing team at once with that thing.
Oh sweet, thread has devolved into discussions of water gun stats!
Is it just me or does “squirt” sound a bit inappropriate in this situation?
@ 0m3t14:
Ha ha! I actually had a CPS 2000, it was the bazooka of water cannons, but had a long recharge time. I could soak a target across the yard – but I had one shot and as a kid and I missed most moving targets. Paper wasp nests were particularly static, so I blew up one or two of those. Sadly I also hit a friend in the eye once, too… That was a miss that lost me a friend :(.
Larissa seems to be deploying something akin to an Super Soaker 30, which was horribly under-powered. I personally preffered my XXP 175. It was a very well designed water gun, and while it didn’t have the power of the CPS 2000, it was faster to recharge and deploy and while the charge gauge on the 2000 said how far the blast would go, the XXP 175 gave you some idea of how many more shots your could deploy. Consequently it was my tool of choice for water gun fights… once I invariably missed.
Sandra: Immune to Precision Damage.
@ Psiberkiwi:
…and adjusting his shades to “badass”.
For a contract killer, she’s really lousy.
No setting up a kill zone.
No care of her surroundings.
No escape route.
No checking her weapon.
She does have great ammo, though.
That fiendish Dihydrogenmonoxide has killed thousands of people.
Gleb McYartho wrote:
Plus, squirting someone who’s fresh out of the pool and literally dripping wet seems a little counterintuitive. Just sayin’
@ ClawHeart:
Problem is not that water doesn’t work, but that it is a waste of effort to use a water gun on someone already soaking wet. Should have waited for her to be sunbathing. Warm and dry, the effect woukd have been more dramatic.
Greywolf1963 wrote:
And downright hysterical!
1oldbear wrote:
But then Cloud wouldn’t be defending Sandra’s honor– he’d be retaliating, because if she was sunbathing she’d be snorgling Cloud and he would get wet too.
Much more romantic for Cloud to climb onto his white horse and defend her honor with a super soaker.
Paeris Kiran wrote:
Don’t forget the sunglasses.
Am I the only one who’s like “They know each other’s invented aliases?”
@ ClawHeart:
Who cares if it works? What’s the point in using a water launcher on someone who’s already soaking wet? Sure, bring a knife to a gun fight; you might possibly score some damage. Shooting water at a wet person? Pointless.