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The modern looking gun she has is an interesting contrast to the style of her uniform.
That reaction sounds about right for the situation. I’m guessing she hadn’t actually killed anyone before now (now being the flashback-present).
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
Yeah, sights don’t bug me, but that tiny little bayonet would be worthless…
Is takao left handed?
Maybe the little bayonet is there for symbolic reasons or something.
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 ^^)
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?
What kind of sight is that? Mot like an Ak or any of that.
I just keep thinking ‘well, magic!’. I vaugely remember one of the soldiers in midlands mentioning that her boots had a mass production spell on them to reduce the noise of footsteps. It makes it hard to speculate on why things are the way they are.
Also, it looks more like the ’sniper’ is a regular soldier who managed to get his hands on a scoped rifle than a trained sniper, who would never do anything so silly as silhouette himself in a window, for exactly the reasons seen here.
Well, as far as the gun sight (if you’re actually using a gun that has a crosshair-lookin thing) I get the feeling that the MIDDLE of it would be a smaller circle instead of the metal cross, because with that on the end you can’t see precisely what you’re aiming at, and that crosshair is big enough that this might make a difference. I wouldn’t trust me on this though, so go with whatever gun design suits you.
If we’re being nitpicky though, I’ll mention that the sniper always seems to aim at people’s heads and hit them in the chest area, which maybe reinforces Frank’s theory, but is kind of amusing regardless.