Explosion marking the birth of a super powerful 3rd party, whom the 2 groups will have to unite against to stand a chance at avoiding ultimate global destruction…Cue HR in the body of Payet Best!! ;D
War. War never changes lanes. I have seen war make a left turn across seven other lanes of traffic because it refuses to get out of the right lane. I still don’t know how it pulls that off.
I’m archive diving for the first time so this is NOT a spoiler. I don’t actually know.
But it seems so obvious that Best is in the other game world H.R. opened the cultist portal to that its really odd that folk keep expecting him to show up. He is going to show up when some of these characters go to the cyber punk world or whatever it is.
And if I am totally wrong, cause I haven’t read ahead so its possible, these opinions would still surprise me cause its been so heavily foreshadowed that direction. So much so my jaw is going to hit the floor so hard it will bounce back to the ceiling if it proves that Best is NOT in that world. I’m just going to assume having your first read be an archive dive makes this more obvious than to regular snail readers somehow?
No need to take it so seriously, fellow archive-phantom.
The comments of these comics have more to them than just pun-offs. There are quite a few internal memes circulating too. This, in a manner of speaking, would be one of them.
But yeah… I’m pretty sure Best will come back FROM the other world… eventually.
The rocket motor seems like a needless complication. Explosives could have been dropped on those blimps from higher altitudes to accomplish the same thing with minimal risk of failure. Or hell, just ‘some buckets full of lava’ would have done the trick. There seem to be a lot of that about.
But considering evasive maneuvers, in the time it takes to reach that altitude, your “bucket full of lava” would likely cool into a bucket-full of solid rock. It could still cause damage from impact, but not quite as catastrophic as some would hope for.
in-fact they where – their slow compared to planes, but your average zepplin (and might I remind you these are magic powered) still moved at about 60 mph
try dropping something on a moving car for me would you please? :P then come back and make the same comment
This, of course, assumes that the avians can fly high enough to evade the airship defenses in the first place. Even mechanical aircraft have a maximum height they can fly to, and the avians have the additional complication of a need to breathe and a need to account for their own stamina.
If they can get as high as they did (with no apparent difficulties save the arrows and spells being shot at them), another 50 feet would be nothing, and the bag of the zeppelin would provide cover.
I guess that making the blimp fly as high as most avians’ limit would be a sensible design choice (muh air superiority).
With already limited maneuverability, leave to the wizards to toast whatever tries to fly above, which is no mean feat even if we get a theoretical ideal avian who needs no breathing, can use their wing-hands and fly at the same time, has no air friction, infinite stamina, constantly outspeeding your above-average unladen swallow…
You know what? Goblaurence was right from the start. He wanted to strap rockets to avians and fling them at enemies. Probably, after the first or second thousand of avians flung themselves without payloads at the gastonians, Penk noticed the rocket idea as a really good and sound idea.
Relevant piece of history regarding bombing zeppelins which is also pretty interesting.
“On the night of 6-7 June 1915 Rex Warneford, a lieutenant in the RNAS, flying a Morane-Saulnier, was on a bombing mission against the Zeppelin sheds at Evere. When he spotted a Zeppelin returning from a bombing raid against London he decided to attack it. He tried shooting his carbine at it, his only armament, but he was driven off by the Zeppelin’s defensive machine guns.
The airship began climbing, leaving the little plane behind, but Warneford, unbeknown to the Zeppelin crew, continued the pursuit, climbing slowly over two hours to an altitude of 13,000 feet. At this stage the airship began to descend in the direction of Brussels, and seizing his opportunity Warneford, now above the Zeppelin, dived towards it and from about two hundred feet above he dropped his six bombs on its roof.
The resultant explosion destroyed the Zeppelin, and almost destroyed Warneford’s fragile monoplane.
He was forced to put the plane down, behind enemy lines, but he managed to make sufficient emergency repairs to take off again and return to his base. LZ 37 was the first Zeppelin brought down by an airplane.”
Pretty sure magic can in some way do a better job of healing that just setting something and letting nature do its work, it is you know, MAGIC after all. But that said, she might be out of Mana or equivalent energy having been casting healing spells on soldier all day long.
Given that hammerhead seems entirely unfazed by / possibly to have healed up from the storm of axe-cuts and sword-cuts he experienced (plus the daggers in the back), is there anything in the Peacekeepers’ arsenal that can hurt him? Seems like the fighters need to go for nothing short of decapitation… or, at the very least, the eyes.
Hard to imagine that he has simply healed all the damage, there is no mention of Land Sharks having a Healing Factor like that of trolls. More likely LS have some kind of biology that allows them to clot very fast and stop bleeding. Perhaps there is some kind of damage-reduction effect at work. Nevertheless, there’s no way he can be at full capacity, so he’d better pick his fight carefully.
Actually sharks heal from wounds remarkably quickly, more specifically their bodies replace damaged tissue at an incredible rate. The example most of us know would be the fast regrowth rate of their teeth, but it applies to FLESH WOUNDS as well. For more info this is a decent start.
Dense hide plus thicker hide due to greater than regular humanoid size advantage makes sharkie a tough boy?
To take advantage of their speed and stay out of his hands they went with slashing attacks hoping to bleed him I suppose. Buuuut now you would think he’d have been hamstrung a little in there somewhere.
That, the old X-Men cartoon intro, and every other time you see a scene like the last panel of this comic all have one thing in common: it’s where they end. You never actually see the fight. You just see the characters all running into one spot and then it fades to white.
Tomorrow: battle interrupted by HR falling from the sky, or end of chapter?
Helping the Peacekeepers: Fr’nj actually doing something, Scipio is on his feet, Rachel is still fired up for battle, Penk doesn’t have his drum, Magda is out of spells, Bandit is here
Helping the Champions: Penk’s fire is lit now, Scipio’s arm is broken, HAMMERHEAD and Auraugu are now back in the battle (if a little worse for wear), Frigg and Syr’nj are both out of commission, Byron has run out of speed potion
The results are still up in the air for now, and the bigger picture could also go either way depending on whether that missile hits or not. I’ll say the results are “a draw until deus ex machina”
My only question: Where are Gravy and Company? And why do I keep expecting them to interrupt the fight screaming “IT’S A CULTIST PLOT GUYS!!!one1eleven”
HR’s mini-me pops into the world of Arkerra, and delights in his bird’s-eye view of the battle… from his perch atop a Gastonian zepplin. Seconds later –
These tag-team fighting games are getting out of hand. The metagame is a complete mess.
Massive explosion interrupting climactic battle in 3.. 2… 1…
This is not Gangs of new york…thank christ.
Explosion marking the birth of a super powerful 3rd party, whom the 2 groups will have to unite against to stand a chance at avoiding ultimate global destruction…Cue HR in the body of Payet Best!! ;D
Good thing it’s not Friday.
Seriously. We have a few more days to watch them FIGHT!
Somebody get Scipio a stogie! Cigars + him = Popeye + spinach!
Bandit gets it. War is hell. And stupid.
Are you saying Bandit will … *gulp* … get it?
Noooooo!
Totes inappropriate avatar…
Inappropriate avatar makes it even better
War. War never changes its diapers. Someone else has to change them for War, because War is just sitting there drooling.
War. War never changes lanes. I have seen war make a left turn across seven other lanes of traffic because it refuses to get out of the right lane. I still don’t know how it pulls that off.
Goodness, it just keeps going on, doesn’t it?
Looking forward to the earth-shattering kaboom. Anyone else think that the exploding airship is going to cause the battle to end in a draw somehow?
Maybe it will crush both sides and they’ll respawn.
…and then the airship lands on them!
Blame the engineer for not bringing two level 3 teleporters and a sentry nest under a minute with just 200 metal.
Where I saw that before?
This is *totes* the time for Payet Best to make a stunning reappearance.
Just sayin’…
I’d love to but I’m expecting HR to pop in.
Best shows up and saves the day…. pull out to SepiaWorld, and Best’s tube empties, and it’s HR….
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s about time to pull a Warcraft 3 Intro Movie, with HR playing the part of the Infernal.
I’m archive diving for the first time so this is NOT a spoiler. I don’t actually know.
But it seems so obvious that Best is in the other game world H.R. opened the cultist portal to that its really odd that folk keep expecting him to show up. He is going to show up when some of these characters go to the cyber punk world or whatever it is.
And if I am totally wrong, cause I haven’t read ahead so its possible, these opinions would still surprise me cause its been so heavily foreshadowed that direction. So much so my jaw is going to hit the floor so hard it will bounce back to the ceiling if it proves that Best is NOT in that world. I’m just going to assume having your first read be an archive dive makes this more obvious than to regular snail readers somehow?
No need to take it so seriously, fellow archive-phantom.
The comments of these comics have more to them than just pun-offs. There are quite a few internal memes circulating too. This, in a manner of speaking, would be one of them.
But yeah… I’m pretty sure Best will come back FROM the other world… eventually.
The rocket motor seems like a needless complication. Explosives could have been dropped on those blimps from higher altitudes to accomplish the same thing with minimal risk of failure. Or hell, just ‘some buckets full of lava’ would have done the trick. There seem to be a lot of that about.
But considering evasive maneuvers, in the time it takes to reach that altitude, your “bucket full of lava” would likely cool into a bucket-full of solid rock. It could still cause damage from impact, but not quite as catastrophic as some would hope for.
their moving. its very, very hard to drop a bomb on a moving aircraft. like nigh impossible
especially since it means the avians need to get even closer to it’s many, many defences.
which would have been a stupid choice
Yeah, Zeppelins were known for their speedy manoeuverings and aerodynamics
in-fact they where – their slow compared to planes, but your average zepplin (and might I remind you these are magic powered) still moved at about 60 mph
try dropping something on a moving car for me would you please? :P then come back and make the same comment
Is the car actually the size of six 18 wheelers and I’m a flying birdman? If so, then hell yeah, give me a rock.
Also, it’s not like ballistics is rocket wizardry or anything.
Aren’t rockets a type of ballistic?
Indeed, and they make a loud whoosh.
It isn’t difficult to drop something onto a moving car from above… and an airship is a LOT bigger than a car.
If birds can crap on a moving car, dropping a bomb on one shouldn’t be much harder.
I just wanna know how they can do the math to land their crap on the windshield, right in the center of the driver’s field of vision.
I guess they calculate it on the fly.
This, of course, assumes that the avians can fly high enough to evade the airship defenses in the first place. Even mechanical aircraft have a maximum height they can fly to, and the avians have the additional complication of a need to breathe and a need to account for their own stamina.
If they can get as high as they did (with no apparent difficulties save the arrows and spells being shot at them), another 50 feet would be nothing, and the bag of the zeppelin would provide cover.
Uh, I think that, actually, they had problems.
Many, many problems.
I guess that making the blimp fly as high as most avians’ limit would be a sensible design choice (muh air superiority).
With already limited maneuverability, leave to the wizards to toast whatever tries to fly above, which is no mean feat even if we get a theoretical ideal avian who needs no breathing, can use their wing-hands and fly at the same time, has no air friction, infinite stamina, constantly outspeeding your above-average unladen swallow…
You know what? Goblaurence was right from the start. He wanted to strap rockets to avians and fling them at enemies. Probably, after the first or second thousand of avians flung themselves without payloads at the gastonians, Penk noticed the rocket idea as a really good and sound idea.
Relevant piece of history regarding bombing zeppelins which is also pretty interesting.
“On the night of 6-7 June 1915 Rex Warneford, a lieutenant in the RNAS, flying a Morane-Saulnier, was on a bombing mission against the Zeppelin sheds at Evere. When he spotted a Zeppelin returning from a bombing raid against London he decided to attack it. He tried shooting his carbine at it, his only armament, but he was driven off by the Zeppelin’s defensive machine guns.
The airship began climbing, leaving the little plane behind, but Warneford, unbeknown to the Zeppelin crew, continued the pursuit, climbing slowly over two hours to an altitude of 13,000 feet. At this stage the airship began to descend in the direction of Brussels, and seizing his opportunity Warneford, now above the Zeppelin, dived towards it and from about two hundred feet above he dropped his six bombs on its roof.
The resultant explosion destroyed the Zeppelin, and almost destroyed Warneford’s fragile monoplane.
He was forced to put the plane down, behind enemy lines, but he managed to make sufficient emergency repairs to take off again and return to his base. LZ 37 was the first Zeppelin brought down by an airplane.”
Also the Zeppelin crashed into a convent school and killed two nuns. One of the Zep crew did survive. That is some Axel Higgs level sh*t right there.
Hyes. Schmott guy.
Roll for initiative.
Peacekeepers vs Champions: FIGHT!
90’s X-Men theme song playing in the background…
My first thought was “Meanwhile, at the HALL of JUSTICE!!”
…Ted Knight is the voice in my head….
Oh yeah, that, can totally see that now (thank you :P)
For some reason, last panel reminded of the end of Blake’s 7
… and now I’m watching Blake’s 7, which I’ve kept meaning to do, and which actually seems well-written and intelligent, so far.
So, thanks.
Glad to have turned someone new onto it :D
Not much of a spoiler to say that Avalon was the true leader (because, afterall, what did Blake do? spent countless years locked up :P)
For battle purposes, Fr’Nj’s aid counts as one Scipio arm.
you’d of thought she’d have cast a healing spell on his arm.
scip’s arm is shattered. thats aggravated damage. need to set the bones and bandage it up just let time do its work.
Pretty sure magic can in some way do a better job of healing that just setting something and letting nature do its work, it is you know, MAGIC after all. But that said, she might be out of Mana or equivalent energy having been casting healing spells on soldier all day long.
ITS TIME TO PARTY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xemLz_fR1Ac&feature=kp
Or, as Bandit has pointed out, party until you’re stupid.
Given that hammerhead seems entirely unfazed by / possibly to have healed up from the storm of axe-cuts and sword-cuts he experienced (plus the daggers in the back), is there anything in the Peacekeepers’ arsenal that can hurt him? Seems like the fighters need to go for nothing short of decapitation… or, at the very least, the eyes.
Hard to imagine that he has simply healed all the damage, there is no mention of Land Sharks having a Healing Factor like that of trolls. More likely LS have some kind of biology that allows them to clot very fast and stop bleeding. Perhaps there is some kind of damage-reduction effect at work. Nevertheless, there’s no way he can be at full capacity, so he’d better pick his fight carefully.
I doubt Hammerhead does anything carefully.
Actually sharks heal from wounds remarkably quickly, more specifically their bodies replace damaged tissue at an incredible rate. The example most of us know would be the fast regrowth rate of their teeth, but it applies to FLESH WOUNDS as well. For more info this is a decent start.
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/p_wound.htm
Yeah, if the actual animal has pseudo healing factor and pseudo berserker mode, then fantasy world spinach makes HAMMERHEAD the juggernaut, bitches.
Dense hide plus thicker hide due to greater than regular humanoid size advantage makes sharkie a tough boy?
To take advantage of their speed and stay out of his hands they went with slashing attacks hoping to bleed him I suppose. Buuuut now you would think he’d have been hamstrung a little in there somewhere.
Anyone remember the first Super Smash Bros intro?
That, the old X-Men cartoon intro, and every other time you see a scene like the last panel of this comic all have one thing in common: it’s where they end. You never actually see the fight. You just see the characters all running into one spot and then it fades to white.
Tomorrow: battle interrupted by HR falling from the sky, or end of chapter?
so, phil, which champ is cyclops?
Don’t you mean chump?
“It’s party time?”
No, it’s HAMMER time!
Wouldn’t it be more efficient for Fr’Nj to fix Frigg’s fried feet, instead of fighting?
Let’s tally up:
Helping the Peacekeepers: Fr’nj actually doing something, Scipio is on his feet, Rachel is still fired up for battle, Penk doesn’t have his drum, Magda is out of spells, Bandit is here
Helping the Champions: Penk’s fire is lit now, Scipio’s arm is broken, HAMMERHEAD and Auraugu are now back in the battle (if a little worse for wear), Frigg and Syr’nj are both out of commission, Byron has run out of speed potion
The results are still up in the air for now, and the bigger picture could also go either way depending on whether that missile hits or not. I’ll say the results are “a draw until deus ex machina”
My only question: Where are Gravy and Company? And why do I keep expecting them to interrupt the fight screaming “IT’S A CULTIST PLOT GUYS!!!one1eleven”
Cut to sepia world in 3, 2, 1…
HR’s mini-me pops into the world of Arkerra, and delights in his bird’s-eye view of the battle… from his perch atop a Gastonian zepplin. Seconds later –