April 17th, 2008
#59: yes i know i probably made the sights on takako’s gun look all wrong shut up
Sorry this is so late. I’ll try to get up the next comic actually on Friday.
Sorry this is so late. I’ll try to get up the next comic actually on Friday.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am
The modern looking gun she has is an interesting contrast to the style of her uniform.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
That reaction sounds about right for the situation. I’m guessing she hadn’t actually killed anyone before now (now being the flashback-present).
April 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I figure this is a fantasy comic, and that’s a made up gun, so it can have whatever sights you want on it without it looking ‘wrong’, (besides the 2 inch bayonet looks stranger).
The one thing I found a bit strange in this scene though is the way everyone holds their gun by hooking their thumb over the handguard while keeping their fingers parallel underneath. Not because that’s the ‘wrong’ way to hold a gun, but because I don’t think it’s pysically possible to do. If you try to recreate the pose from the first panel, I’m sure you can’t succeed without a broken wrist.
This might seem like a stupid nitpick, and feel fre to ignore me, but it’s more an anatomy issue than a gun thing. If you need some references for drawing people holding guns, try the wikipedia article on the G36, that’s what I used last time I drew something like this.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Different world, Different way of makeing things work…even though their guns look similar to ours that, doesn’t mean it works the exact same way, maybe how they have their gun sights set up is actually more effective?
it’s your comic, draw things how you want to
April 17th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Oh yeah. Either Takako is actually a maniraptoran dinosaur (a bird, for example), or her wrist is… not so much broken as pulled far apart. Try it yourself. Or do half-elves have extra-mobile wrists like that?
April 18th, 2008 at 3:22 am
That scene worked pretty well, actually.
Sort of a modernized version of the first (and only) time she killed someone in the old comic.
I’m curious to see if Takako ultimately reacts the same way Silth did.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Well, she quite possibly killed somebody in the first page of this flashback, although she could dodge responsibility as it was part of a mass fire situation and it is impossible to tell whose bullets hit who.
April 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Yeah, sights don’t bug me, but that tiny little bayonet would be worthless…
April 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Is takao left handed?
April 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Maybe the little bayonet is there for symbolic reasons or something.
April 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I think the little bayonet is there in case of close combat. It’s small and light, so it doesn’t stand in the way or slow you down. Close combat can sometimes come in suprise, so it’s handy to have a little knife there, rather than to take a bayonete up, mount it at the rifle, and then fight….. ur dead long ago mate. It also enables the shooter not to carry a bayonete at his/her back, so it gives more movability and does not weight you down. (Sorry my bad English, forgive me ^^)
April 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Regular gun sights are just a single nubbin in front that you line up with a notch in back. They’re sized so that the front sight appears to fill the notch when viewed from behind so you can sight accurately (some guns, like MP5’s, have a ring around the front sight, but it’s more there to protect it than to aid with sighting). These sights look more along the lines of…perhaps those on an old flak cannon?