Comic for Wednesday, October 27th
I’m going to assume this page was a little predictable – but I suppose I have to be predictable sometimes to be unpredictable other times. This scene has seemed very reminiscent of Jayce Myer’s first appearance; combined I think they’d be onto something – Myer had a spell that grossly accelerated his reflexes, but didn’t make him particularly stronger – Otte has one that makes him vastly tougher, but he can’t keep up with Naomi at all. Maybe if they pool their resources, but it seems that Otte will have to find a new toy wristband before then.
I think we can see more of what I was referring to the page bacgkrounds. Some of them are slightly higher detail. Some of them are… yeah. Well, we’ll get a balance than slowly improve. Or something like that. That thing that passes for improvement around here.
Wtf is happening to her piece of re-bar through-out the page? That’s pretty weird.
Will Otte’s cavalry arrive in time? Will Naomi get her airship? Will we ever get to see what that weird yellow magic thingee Otte keeps trying to use on Naomi does?!
All these questions and more will be answered someday*
*maybe.
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Bad time to mention that i think he has no choice but to learn from this encounter since from where she was holding the re-bar in Panel four … he now has his arm pinned to the building through his auto-caster … and between both forearm bones if I am not mistaken …
Probably 😛 One could say the point of the lesson has been driven home at this point… hammered in… okay I’ll stop 😐
On the bright side, medical technology in the setting is pretty advanced 😉
So maybe this will be addressed later, but if you have already cast say magic that makes you stronger with the autocaster, and the autocaster is broken, are you suddenly weak or does the spell continue because it was already completed?
If it doesn’t involve physically transforming the subject, it would stop immediately since without the spell/autocaster sustaining it.
The same is true for Naomi if she were to fall unconscious; while probably pushing human limit naturally, she would still be human while asleep/unconscious/sufficiently distracted.
While you can technically actually change your physical form with magic – this would be vastly more complicated and problematic for reasons that would turn this comment into one of my long rambles 😛
I think that’s the round! ^^
I have the feeling more fireworks are to come… but there are so many potential sources!
PS: <3 the new chibis populating the sidebars!
I’d offer a betting pool on the various outcomes, but if I gave the odds that’d probably be spoilers 😉
Thanks! 😀
Also Niome plainly knows that the rebar is only an object like an autocaster or a gun it is a tool. the real thing you need in a fight is a brain. What I wonder though is where the large chunk of concrete went that was on the end of it. After she broke his hand with it, it should still be attached. The concrete, possibly the hand too.
There are a few flakes of it left, but it’s a fair question. Maybe the magic effecting the rebar broke it off. I’m going with that one. 😉
She has improvised combat down to an art. And most other versions.
I would like more trees! they could even be spruce if you thought they would be easier to draw.
I really need to work on how to draw the backgrounds a little better; we’ve seen in some shots the school is actually seperated from the city by a lot an area of trees, but I usually go to great lengths to avoid drawing it…
That said, there should definitely be more trees inside the school grounds than I’ve drawn 😉
Aaand Nick goes back to school for “Naomi Fighting 201”, in which he learns that watching Naomi mop up his henchmen isn’t the same as being mopped up himself. ^^
It also looks like she either recognized or figured out his Boost Engine. I played around a bit with the results that may follow her smashing it: A. It simply goes dark. B. It emits a fountain of sparks/light beams, and goes dark. C. A catastrophic cascade of containment field failures releases a burst of super energized psions which takes Nick’s arm off at the elbow and sends Naomi flying. D. The energy release stuns/damages/electrocutes Nick. Afterwards, Nick, or the largest portion of him remaining, surrenders. 🙂
Outside of a certain, um, elasticity of dimension, the rebar looked pretty good.
Really I think Otte is probably still on 101; I don’t really think he got a passing grade last time.
Jayce was a considerably bigger threat than the Otte, and he fared debatable worse though, so Otte at least holds onto his D imo.
I have to say your guessing strategy seems pretty safe as that covers pretty much the whole spectrum 😉 Well – I suppose it could keep working like it was, but that’s just silly 😛
My she’s welding that re-bar like its a thrusting sword there and likely effecting it with her magic… I have the feeling if you put a real sword in her hands she’s be extremely scary to face… correction she’s already scary, a real weapon like a sword would be terrifying. 🙂
She would probably like to have a sword. It seems like the sort of thing she would like. It’s probably a bad idea to give her one. At least with the punch approach people unusually only get a little busted 😉
Rebar is turning out to be dangerous enough 😀
Did he learn nothing from their last encounter? I feel like he should have known that wouldn’t work. Unless her attacking his bracer is some sort of trap.
Nothing is such hard evaluation. He just didn’t learn much. 😛
He made a handful of miscalculations to get here, but ultimately he probably believed he had the upper hand last time as well. Her wiping out the rest of his squad was one thing, but they were pretty poorly armed. She was interrupted before clashing with him directly, thus he was more concerned by Tyler than her.
The only thing he really knew was she is boosting herself with magic – which is something he can do as well as evidenced by him taking fairly little damage from being hit (compared to say… Jayce who got fairly messed up when hit by Naomi), but he is way less experienced fighting like that than she is.
Nick Otte is competent enough, but is out of his league and refusing to acknowledge it; that more than anything is probably the part of this that’s getting in his way.