From the (admittedly rather indistinct) background in panel 1, and Brian wearing a wrist-band and what likes like a hospital gown, he is still in hospital (I hope the DM is paying the medical bills), but it must be a pretty laid-back hospital where you a guy with no face, horns and gloves that don’t have arms in them, a cat in military fatigues carrying a SGM rifle, another cat with a bushy tail in a suit, and a cute girl, but who is green. I blame the Mexican border, who they let into the US of A these days!
Yes, Tealanna is cute, has got cuter and more big eyed. If Bree is with Sark, and Paige is with Finch, I see her and Brian as a couple eventually.
Otherwise, the DM holding forth, and things becoming more complicated and rather mysterious, extra-dimensional…How will this ever tie in with Bree and the dragon (or dragons, who stole the gold Betrys wants returned – incidentally I suggest she comes from the same world as Kel and the Mindripper), or if we ever get back to the High Elves and crazy Sephni and the bloodthirsty ‘Korean schoolgirl’, or Moonblade and her companions… We can, at least, see Sark and the Orcs story arc blending back to the Bree/Blue Dragon cycle. At least we sort of half undrstand the last episode now.
Dude, please don’t use word mashups like “SMG rifle”. It hurts my inner geek. A SMG is a firearm using small, pistol-sized ammo, and a rifle uses, well, rifle-sized ammo. There are more differences, but the bottom line is that a firearm can be either thing, but not both.
You plainly wanted to refer to a rifle able of full auto fire, but that would be a weird thing for Phawkes to carry. He’s sporting (according to the comment section of comic #555) an AR-10 (basically, a full-caliber version of the AR-15) clearly modified for precision shooting, and one that he got in a very short notice. It DEFINITELY would be a semiauto version.
(inb4 gun nuts nitpick that the AR-15 is actually an intermediate caliber version of the earlier AR-10 and not the other way around. Nobody cares.)
Sorry, guys, I come from a country where you don’t see firearms on a regular basis, if at all! I bow to your superior knowledge. Guns are guns, some are long and pointy, but I’m still not sure you can walk into hospitals with one on your shoulder, or am I wrong about that also?
Doublegee, besides the nitpick about terminology (and be glad you didn’t make a mistake about WW2-age fighter planes – that WOULD have truly triggered me) 😉 I have to agree with your shipping of Teal and Brian. That leaves us with only one pressing question – a quite important one, in fact:
Who will Prancy find for Jane?
Ha, ha, I do know some stuff about WW2 fighter planes!! My father was a RAF mechanic at the time, servicing Spitfires, his half-brother was flying them in the Battle of Britain and finished up a Wing Commander. My childhood comics had war stories whose artists would actually have seen the weaponry of that time, if not used it themselves. Plus, just down from where I live now is where the Spitfire was developed and first flown. I have a good collection of ‘cut-aways’ (from the 1960s) of most of the WW2 planes, UK, US, German, Soviet.
Maybe Jane will prefer to be a free independent lady, as I suspect in her world they might not have the (UK) 1882 Marriage Act that allowed women to keep control of their own property instead of it all going to the husband. Their world still looked rather Victorian.
A .22LR match rifle is definitely a rifle, cartridge size is irrelevant, a rifled bore is.
A 7.62×39 AKS-74U has been referred to as an SMG or a Machine-Carbine, the terms are interchangeable, and is closer to that role than it is to a rifle or even a carbine.
The AR-10 was designed by Stoner as was the AR-15, but except for the overall shape there’s a world of difference between them. The AR-10 is classed as a Battle Rifle while the AR-15 isn’t.
Sorry, my professional geekdom as a 20 year military armourer got hurt 😉
Also, different things go by different names in different countries which may be the case here and unwarranted of an ‘ackshually’
Phawkes is carrying a fictional weapon in a cartoon, it’s a fully semi-automatic assault machine-rifle and fires unobtainium tranqulizing darts from a 30 clip magazine…or whatever the artist decides it does.
time for some backstory, Brian
He a blood donor?
I like Teal. She’s cute.
Also, in the Grayside she’s still green. What explains that?
And not-grey.
From the (admittedly rather indistinct) background in panel 1, and Brian wearing a wrist-band and what likes like a hospital gown, he is still in hospital (I hope the DM is paying the medical bills), but it must be a pretty laid-back hospital where you a guy with no face, horns and gloves that don’t have arms in them, a cat in military fatigues carrying a SGM rifle, another cat with a bushy tail in a suit, and a cute girl, but who is green. I blame the Mexican border, who they let into the US of A these days!
Yes, Tealanna is cute, has got cuter and more big eyed. If Bree is with Sark, and Paige is with Finch, I see her and Brian as a couple eventually.
Otherwise, the DM holding forth, and things becoming more complicated and rather mysterious, extra-dimensional…How will this ever tie in with Bree and the dragon (or dragons, who stole the gold Betrys wants returned – incidentally I suggest she comes from the same world as Kel and the Mindripper), or if we ever get back to the High Elves and crazy Sephni and the bloodthirsty ‘Korean schoolgirl’, or Moonblade and her companions… We can, at least, see Sark and the Orcs story arc blending back to the Bree/Blue Dragon cycle. At least we sort of half undrstand the last episode now.
Dude, please don’t use word mashups like “SMG rifle”. It hurts my inner geek. A SMG is a firearm using small, pistol-sized ammo, and a rifle uses, well, rifle-sized ammo. There are more differences, but the bottom line is that a firearm can be either thing, but not both.
You plainly wanted to refer to a rifle able of full auto fire, but that would be a weird thing for Phawkes to carry. He’s sporting (according to the comment section of comic #555) an AR-10 (basically, a full-caliber version of the AR-15) clearly modified for precision shooting, and one that he got in a very short notice. It DEFINITELY would be a semiauto version.
(inb4 gun nuts nitpick that the AR-15 is actually an intermediate caliber version of the earlier AR-10 and not the other way around. Nobody cares.)
Or one of us gun nuts use the much mocked words “Fully semi-automatic,”
It hurts the soul.
Sorry, guys, I come from a country where you don’t see firearms on a regular basis, if at all! I bow to your superior knowledge. Guns are guns, some are long and pointy, but I’m still not sure you can walk into hospitals with one on your shoulder, or am I wrong about that also?
Doublegee, besides the nitpick about terminology (and be glad you didn’t make a mistake about WW2-age fighter planes – that WOULD have truly triggered me) 😉 I have to agree with your shipping of Teal and Brian. That leaves us with only one pressing question – a quite important one, in fact:
Who will Prancy find for Jane?
Ha, ha, I do know some stuff about WW2 fighter planes!! My father was a RAF mechanic at the time, servicing Spitfires, his half-brother was flying them in the Battle of Britain and finished up a Wing Commander. My childhood comics had war stories whose artists would actually have seen the weaponry of that time, if not used it themselves. Plus, just down from where I live now is where the Spitfire was developed and first flown. I have a good collection of ‘cut-aways’ (from the 1960s) of most of the WW2 planes, UK, US, German, Soviet.
Maybe Jane will prefer to be a free independent lady, as I suspect in her world they might not have the (UK) 1882 Marriage Act that allowed women to keep control of their own property instead of it all going to the husband. Their world still looked rather Victorian.
Teal + Jane, obviously
And it’s Breen and Bet, Sark is just another Avatar, nothing more
SMG literally means ‘Sub Machine Gun’ (or at least it did, before words started changing their meanings… )
A .22LR match rifle is definitely a rifle, cartridge size is irrelevant, a rifled bore is.
A 7.62×39 AKS-74U has been referred to as an SMG or a Machine-Carbine, the terms are interchangeable, and is closer to that role than it is to a rifle or even a carbine.
The AR-10 was designed by Stoner as was the AR-15, but except for the overall shape there’s a world of difference between them. The AR-10 is classed as a Battle Rifle while the AR-15 isn’t.
Sorry, my professional geekdom as a 20 year military armourer got hurt 😉
Also, different things go by different names in different countries which may be the case here and unwarranted of an ‘ackshually’
Phawkes is carrying a fictional weapon in a cartoon, it’s a fully semi-automatic assault machine-rifle and fires unobtainium tranqulizing darts from a 30 clip magazine…or whatever the artist decides it does.
Part of me knew I should have leaned harder into that joke.
Well done, sir, well done.
…I hope you know what the LR in .22LR means
Did you mean to write 5.45×39?
Nice incentive, I bid 5 grand.
Regarding the blood: is Brian Jewish?
Eew. I hadn’t thought of that. Hopefully it isn’t so here.
All this meta rationale hurts my mind. I’m sure there’s a subtle joke at the term “Dream Wizards” but I don’t really get it, sorry.