That’s enough, Sal.
on June 26, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Characters: David Walkerton, Head Alien, Jennifer Billingsworth, Joyce Brown, Robin DeSanto, Sal Walters
Location: Final battle wasteland
Heh, I think maybe the order of Billie’s lines should be swapped. Like, pretty sure “he’s hurt bad” is pretty redundant once you say he’s lost an arm. But swap ’em, and it’s a ramp-up. Ah well.
And, yeah, Billie, #DontSpoilTheEndgame, all right? C’mon!
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“He’s lost an arm!”
“…he’s had worse.”
“NO, he hasn’t!”
“Tis but a scratch!”
it’s only a flesh wound.
😀
What is he going to do, bleed on me?
. . . Ummm, yes?
Wasn’t Robin supposed to stop Sal from fighting? Doesn’t seem like that worked so far.
Robin as the voice of restraint? I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t just see it.
she has always been that way, it rarely showed because of the situations but under her goofball exterior is a solid mind that knows what to do.
So Robins objective is what? Is she trying to talk strategy or what?
Walky asked Billie, two strips ago, to get Robin to stop Sal before (Sal) could be hurt. Robin is probably one of the few who could place herself between Sal and Head Alien, to attempt to get Sal to see reason.
Which makes me wonder what the heck Billie thought she’d accomplish by telling Sal that Walky lost an arm?
it accomplished exactly what it needed to do, it got Head Alien’s attention off of Sal letting her get a strike in unopposed while also getting him into his usual monologue mentality that usually leads to his downfall…
plus, it also gives her reason to protect them and maybe try to refocus elsewhere so they can rally
Not that Sal getting a hit in here would matter that much, since this isn’t actually Head Alien – it’s just a puppet for HA, whose actual mind and power are centered in the Cheese’s body.
(who has the speed to reach the two and intervene, I mean…)
Oops, this should have been a reply to newllend.
The order is fine, it emphasizes just how badly hurt he is. “Hurt bad” can mean he’s got a bad concussion or been stabbed, losing an arm is a whole other level of life and death situation!
Wouldn’t that be the reverse order?
Here we learn about the arm first and then get told he’s hurt bad. That’s pretty obvious once you know he’s lost an arm.
Eh, everyone’s just staring down Billie’s cleavage at that point anyway.
Not telling the Artist what’s artistic, but, looking at the physics of it, if Sal hit the breaks so hard shouldn’t her hair have kept going & be flying forward around her face, rather than still trailing behind her?
Though I should have said 1st, that I love this strip: composition, the angles on people, poses, expressions. Great stuff.
There’s enough product in that hair it acts like armor.
I wonder, if like Millia, she could also use it as a weapon
Sal’s hair is sentient.
“Walky’s lost an arm” doesn’t make it clear whose arm and what sort he lost, though. “He’s hurt bad” reveals that it’s probably his own.