Ruin their special day
on September 10, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: The Wedding
Characters: Amber O'Malley, Assorted Future Kids, Brock Doc, Charles Walkerton, David Walkerton, Dorothy Keener, Head Alien, Jason Chesterfield, Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner, Monkey Master, Paige Walters, Perry Brown
Location: The Wedding Church
Shooting to wound is something I’m fairly certain is made up for television. You go for center of mass or basically you can expect to miss.
Anyway, they’re all taking this very well, except Joe.
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Happy Walkiversary!
Sadly, unless this wedding goes for a lot longer, I’m pretty sure this is going to be the last Walkiversary on this site. Better make it count.
Joe is still processing banging an android with an alien inside
That’s an odd way to spell “getting raped by”…
Didn’t one of the previous comics establish that Joe specifically wasn’t getting with Fake Rachel?
Maybe?
He complained about infrequent sex. The exact phrasing could have been literal or hyperbole. Plus that was a while ago – it might have happened since then.
The framing of the previous page – HA saying “hope you didn’t have sex with her” and the cut to Joe looking horrified implies that we the audience are supposed to believe that sex occurred.
Since Joe’s horrified-face came before HA’s line there, I took Joe’s revulsion to be coming more from a general place of “oh my god my girlfriend’s face is splitting open in front of me THAT ISN’T RACHEL” sort of thing. Or as Thag Simmons pointed out yesterday, “it’s a little suspicious to suddenly distance yourself from your partner, but not nearly as suspicious as your meat-suit failing to hold up to intimate scrutiny.”
Even if shooting to wound was real, it’s not like Jason has any practice at it. SEMME never seemed to bothered about Aliens getting the one-hit-kill treatment.
Except for the Head Alien. You weren’t allowed to kill him, for some reason.
My understanding is that you’d want less powerful ammunition if you wanted to shoot people non-lethally with any reliability.
Shooting to wound is a real thing, says my ex-IDF fiance. He says maybe US cops are trained to think it’s not a thing, but in the IDF it was part of using as little force as possible.
PS. please let’s not have a flamewar about these potentially hot-button topics, I’m sure we can all agree US cops are trained very badly, this is a fun comic about aliens, thank you in advance.
I’ve done conscription before (though not IDF), and we certainly were taught to aim for the centre of the mass as well. What part of the IDF was he in though, given military is all about lethal force usually?
(provided you can share with us, that is)
Infantry.
If you didn’t want to discuss these topics, you shouldn’t have brought them up.
American cops are not trained “badly”, they are trained deliberately and maliciously.
The IDF similarly is trained very well to cause maximum damage to Palestinians civilians, and is the blunt instrument of an apartheid state. If they are indeed “trained to wound”, this is training they ignore actively and often, usually in the course of using such heavy artillery that averting casualties is literally impossible.
Fuck off.
If big bad Israel wanted to wipe out the Palestinians, they would’ve done it already. Israel does not want that.
It’s almost like this war/conflict is more complicated than your westernized bumper sticker version of world events.
Nobody likes the situation there, but if you want to discuss further, I recommend that you please talk to more people, on all sides, who really live there, to deepen your understanding of one of the most complex situations on the planet.
There’s some nice reactions from the wedding guests in this one. Joe’s stunned silence is interesting; it’s a definite contrast to how everybody else in the cast tends to react to the Head Alien completely devastating them emotionally (the usual reaction, of course, being rage).
Coming off of DoA, it’s interesting seeing Amber think herself less deadly than Amazi-Girl in a fight– especially since, fundamentally, Amazi-Girl as a separate entity does not exist in this continuity. On one level I’m disappointed that we apparently aren’t going to get AG in this story, but at the same time this is ultimately an IW!/J&W! story with Amber and Leslie as guest stars, so it makes sense not to have her steal the spotlight. In any case, Walkyverse Amber is probably one of the few characters who’d get utterly curb-stomped by (either of) her Dumbiverse counterpart(s) anyway.
Third, somebody finally managed to actually piss off Charles, the guy who has basically done nothing in this entire series, to the point that he’s willing to throw down with an army of people all stronger than himself. Color me impressed.
For those who didn’t read Shortpacked! (Why? What is wrong with you?) Amber’s desire for a corn popper is a reference to the child’s toy, that this universe’s version of Amazi-Girl wields as a blunt weapon.
Jason: “‘Wound.’ Right.”
“Set phasers to ‘Stun’.”
With all the rest of the high-tech goodies at SEMME’s disposal, why were they still using ordinary run-of-the-mill firearms anyway??
Do you not remember Joyce’s gun?
“Shoot to wound” makes sense if you have weapons with a non-lethal stun setting like phasers. Not so much when you have guns that can easily kill someone no matter where the bullet hits. Even if you successfully miss any major organs, you could still easily hit an important artery and the person you’re trying to “shoot to wound” could still die from blood loss.
In fairness, Jason is like a highly trained special agent, right? In this universe with aliens and child abductee supersoldiers, I’m willing to buy “child of interdimensional crimelord who has been a secret agent for many years has a superhuman level of firearms proficiency”.
Shoot to Wound .. sure, makes sense. Isn’t that what you always do with a gun? I mean … lethal wounds are still wounds, right?