- Tibor: Follow me! We have to get away from here!
- Soldier: Reva?
- Soldier: Reva!!
- Soldier: Bastards!
The Machine of Eternal Summer 029
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- Tibor: Follow me! We have to get away from here!
- Soldier: Reva?
- Soldier: Reva!!
- Soldier: Bastards!
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21 thoughts on “The Machine of Eternal Summer 029”
Crystalgate
It’s Tibor. It should not have been, but it is. Anyway, aiming is harder when you’re targeting a main character and not an NPC.
HKMaly
It shouldn’t and the previous page actually CHANGED to make it at least little more plausible.
They really want to rush through this part.
And to be fair, they are further away and running and I still think hitting the father was luck. Also, being angry is generally bad for your aim.
Sekhmet
Yes, good point. Tibor’s hand is drawn in a different color, making it clear that it’s not a glove. And we see a “real” eye.
For the miss, yes being angry can ruin your aim, and we know that the soldiers missed Scarlet once before, so that’s plausible. Maybe these weapons are powerful but have terrible aim?
Crystalgate
They had no problem hitting Scarlet’s parent though, hence my main character vs NPC comment. Anger is a plausible explanation though, but not for the other shot that missed Scarlet.
BlackDragonSlayer
Two things:
1. Scarlet has that “hey wait aren’t you the fox who robbed us?” look on her face 😛
2. It’s entirely possible that Reva has a tag simply because another character says their name. However, I’m still hoping we get CyborgFox at some point.
yodal_
Sure, curse the civilians who you were murdering in cold blood for defending themselves and running.
Einarr
That was my thinking too. “Damn you for ruining a perfectly good war crime!”
FuryoftheStars
Yup, but that is completely believable.
Werwolfe
“Grab on to my big colorful fluffy tail if you want to live”
Intrebute
I was wondering if the whole comic was going to censor blood in all forms, but I guess that was just a result of magic pew-pew not instantly spraying the stuff everywhere.
Vicious Sand
The previous page’s changes include a better look at Mr Knife’s face (part of it), and finger-claws to make him more animalman.
Are there two doors to the shed? Easily possible, but Tibor showing up out of nowhere uses up a lot of “possible.” Scarlet running into him, finding Tibor slightly lost on the trail is loads more plausible. But why start being plausible now? Why would Tibor know where the Caroluses live? HOW would he? He doesn’t just happen to find them, he appears in the middle of the action to preform a heroic rescue of a girl who wasn’t being shot at by soldiers 5 minutes ago.
Sekhmet
My guess is that he found the house after a bit of search. They are not hidden. He knows in which village they live (he observed them quite a while before the robbery). He can just go into the village, have a look at the farms, ask in which one is a little girl name “Scarlet” (her name was revealed during the robbery”. No reason why it should not work.
Then what happened? He went close to the house, and started seeing the soldiers before the farmers. So he hid himself in the nearest possible place: the barn. Then he saw the soldiers killing the parents, the girl going close to him… he took the chance he had, the soldier was distracted and alone, good timing.
th009
He’s standing in front of the same door that Tibor entered through.
frigid
So speaking as a guy who served in the Marines, Tibor picked the worst way to stab the guy. Don’t reach around someone like that, if their back is to you, stab them in the back. Usually, I’m against that, but these guys just shot two unarmed people without so much as a “hands up” and one of them was going to shoot an unarmed child who was basically curled up into a ball. So you know… Screw ’em. Backstabbing is fair play in such a situation.
Crystalgate
Speaking as a guy with no combat experience or training, I can not see how an untrained person would attempt that stab even if not knowing better. If I approach him from behind and want to stab him before he shoots a person I don’t want shoot, the natural approach would be a backstab, I have to get closer to him and then stop before I stab in order to reach around him. I can only imagine someone who doesn’t know what he’s doing attempting this stab if we remove the approaching the target elements, somehow you just already are behind the target. This is probably what happened here though, Tibor was just drawn standing behind Reva.
doclbn
Reva’s backpack is covering all of her back – nowhere to stab, I’d say…
Crystalgate
Unless Tibor happens to stab something hard in the backpack, said backpack will just squish, allowing Tibor a near full stab. Assuming a plasma knife is far more powerful than a knife made of steel, Tibor also has the option to just move the knife around inside Reva’s body a lot without facing the resistance a steel knife would have. All in all, I have a hard time imagine that reaching around would be safer than a backstab.
Banjomike
Should have taken Reva’s rifle. And where did Tibor leave his knapsack/bag?
Agnarr
This is where Tibor redeemed himself. He could’ve run or stayed hidden, but he risked it to rescue someone.
Frith Ra
I’d want to grab his gun, just for self-defense, but I don’t know how much actual noise they make and the other fox landed full on top of it.
I guess this will be a plot point later.
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