Wheeze Pant Gasp (08.18.06)

Kitwulfen · Post by **Kitwulfen** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:48 am

I dunno. Postin' cause I can.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:51 am

Dany tricky Elf, and now looks like he has to leave the area. I don't think those humans will want to help him much.

Squirrelly61104 · Post by **Squirrelly61104** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:26 am

Classic stragety.
Spray and pray.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:04 am

I am so having flashbacks to that one halloween. I hate it she just made off like that. did she still have his backpack? if so that really is what makes it bad. I hate it when stuff like that happens.

Anthony Lion · Post by **Anthony Lion** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:08 am

Unless he has two backpacks, then no...

On the last picture he's wearing what looks like a backpack.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:29 am

that could just be Wildcard's scabbard (I think that's the word I'm looking for)

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:31 am

So that tosses the theory that may not be a theif. She's a full-fleged willfull thief. And he lost her again. He's probably close to being out of lux so he can not run after her, after he used his needler (get it?) to create a distraction.

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:35 am

No, he has his backpack, a scabbard wouldn't be that wide.

Poor Quentyn... At least he learned a valuable lesson: People are gonna stab ya in the back.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:44 am

Yeah, I'm thinkin Quintyn's faking his departure... like when parents PRETEND to walk away but are waiting just around the corner.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am

Perhaps, but it is usually not a very effective strategy to try and fake out someone who running away from you and happens to be going in the opposite direction.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:21 pm

Looks like he doesn't use very often his sense of smell for tracking, but at least he got his backpack.

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:57 pm

The JAM wrote:Looks like he doesn't use very often his sense of smell for tracking, but at least he got his backpack.

It's unclear to me that he's going to quickly give up.

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:58 pm

Rokas wrote:No, he has his backpack, a scabbard wouldn't be that wide.

Poor Quentyn... At least he learned a valuable lesson: People are gonna stab ya in the back.

Also look at the second to last panel. You see both the the scabbard strap and the back pack straps....

TGIF · Post by **TGIF** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:49 pm

Did he just kill a bunch of humans?

TGIF

Persephone_Kore · Post by **Persephone_Kore** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:54 pm

TGIF wrote:Did he just kill a bunch of humans?

TGIF

Judging from the established characteristics of both Quentyn and the weapon he was using, no. But he appears to have caused some pain and probably freaked them out a lot.

Dapple · Post by **Dapple** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:57 pm

udging from the established characteristics of both Quentyn and the weapon he was using, no. But he appears to have caused some pain and probably freaked them out a lot.

They now know what it is like to roll in a cactus pach.

Atarlost · Post by **Atarlost** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:04 am

I'd say yes. That isn't a toy. The bolts will penetrate flesh, if they didn't the thing wouldn't stop a pigeon. Given his height some of those bolts will wind up going into peoples' intestines and without antibiotics such wounds almost invariably lead to fatal infections.

There's no such thing as a nonlethal weapon.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:33 am

If so, I hope Q never finds out. Remember how he felt about the Gragum?

Zobeid · Post by **Zobeid** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:35 am

Atarlost wrote:I'd say yes. That isn't a toy. The bolts will penetrate flesh, if they didn't the thing wouldn't stop a pigeon. Given his height some of those bolts will wind up going into peoples' intestines and without antibiotics such wounds almost invariably lead to fatal infections.

It's not impossible, but I suspect it's much less likely with that weapon. From what little I understand about how it works, the lux bolts should be sterile, non-toxic, and dissolve away soon after firing.

I don't know if it would even penetrate deeply enough to puncture somebody's intestines. If it did, then they might have a problem. . . But even then you're looking at a small puncture that will soon close, it's nothing like the havoc that an arrowhead or bullet can inflict. The closest comparison with a real-world weapon would probably be a blowgun dart.

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:26 pm

Might I suggest looking at the previous comic and noticing how short Quentyn is? It seems pretty obvious to me that given his height and the angle he's holding his pistol at, those darts are going to strike (and this makes me wince!) the groin-al area on the humans.

I dunno about y'all, but the thought of even one of those little lux-darts getting me in the family jewels makes me wanna reach for kevlar boxer shorts...