The muzzle flash of the rifle doesn’t seem to match up with the rest of the rifle. I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate thing, but it means that one frame is a little confusing. Just so it’s been said if it hasn’t already.
It was for some time a great disappointment to me that my Craft did not interest the highest Students of Cutting. Each seemed resigned to carry any old, dull table knife that fit their grip. I understand that they believe sharpness is a quality of the cutter, not of the blade.
I have since learned that I need not mourn their naivety; You cannot hear them speak in any case.
Probably not – a high Master of Cutting as herself would sever the projectile without mishap. I worry for whatever is behind her, as the fineness of the cut will make the weapon unstable in its passage
I suspect Ms. Murder the Thrones and Topple Their Gods cut rather more than just that bullet. I wonder, do any of those soldiers still live?
Also, cutting the bullet in half without exerting the lateral force necessary to separate the halves really shouldn’t do anything to change the trajectory of the halves. Which means cutting the bullet wasn’t the thing she did that actually defended her. And yet she took the time and effort to divide the bullet, among the actions effected by that single cut.
No, I suspect one or more of those guards have been divided.
So did she cut it once and deflect it once, or are be going to still see a hole in her head in the next panel (if she only cut it once, leaving it’s path unaltered)?
I’m guessing she pulled out a hidden weapon and cut the bullet, but for a second I thought the bullet hit her in the face, but bounced off and cracked in half due to her sheer badassery.
That bullet is strange. An earthly bullet would have a lead core, to match that lead tip. This one has a black substance at the tip, but no lead core.
What is it?
Erudite thought leads us to: This bullet is not made of lead and brass. This bullet is made of rose gold, which is an ideal bullet material if cost is no object.
What then of the black tip?
Given that the armies of the Demiurges are not bound by such niceties as the Geneva Convention, it is likely their bullets are tipped by a fatal dose of poison. Arsenic is a classic, Polonium-210 a more high-tech and lethal possibility.
Just because these soldiers LOOK old-fashioned does not mean they are not incredibly lethal.
Bullets of gold and poison! Appropriate for the Demiurges.
Muskets? MUSKETS? An immortal demon-slaying Blade of Want was used by the wielder of the Key of Kings to undermine the bearer of the Word GLORY, not to mention White Chain and Juggernaut Star undoubtedly closing in fast, and let’s just throw in the one and only Meti too.. and they brought muskets. Those guys are gonna have a bad time.
Technically, these look like bolt-actions. Specifically, they look sort of like Gewehr-98’s, the classic German WW1-era rifle chambered in the brutal 8mm Mauser cartridge.
If so, that is a very sophisticated armament indeed.
Can any of the sages here deduce the reason that Mother Om’s soldiers use copper core bullets with soft tips?
Throne’s laws banning advanced firearms won’t apply out here in Mottom’s turf, out of her 111,111 universes, surely someone has invented lead core soft tips and surely money is no object, so why choose these?
If I had mastered smiling in the eighth way, I might be so impertinent as to wonder if these are easier to draw, such that a laymen can still tell what it was before.
Its probably a little difficult to keep up with the cutting edge of munition technology from 111,111 worlds all at once. Plus depending on the methods of production it might just be easier to make copper core instead of tearing down the previous system of manufacturing to get a small boost to shot power. Mottom seems like the type of overlord to have entire worlds dedicated to the production of a single type of bullet.
The technology itself is anything any primitive metalsmith can create and I doubt it would run afoul of any of the laws even in Throne. Such bullets penetrate deep which can be advantageous when trying to pierce the skulls of larger beasts. Because they do not use lead, they do not foul the weapon as quickly and the soft tip forces the bullet to deform into a shape similar to a mushroom which makes it more lethal.
The muzzle flash of the rifle doesn’t seem to match up with the rest of the rifle. I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate thing, but it means that one frame is a little confusing. Just so it’s been said if it hasn’t already.
I think this was done to demonstrate the recoil of the weapon. I don’t think it’s muzzle flash, it’s smoke/dust/residue from firing the weapon.
It’s showing where the projectile emerged while simultaneously showing you the powerful recoil of the weapon.
It’s the recoil.
“Do you feel anything when shooting people?”
‘Certainly.’
“…and that would be?”
‘Recoil.’
It was for some time a great disappointment to me that my Craft did not interest the highest Students of Cutting. Each seemed resigned to carry any old, dull table knife that fit their grip. I understand that they believe sharpness is a quality of the cutter, not of the blade.
I have since learned that I need not mourn their naivety; You cannot hear them speak in any case.
The Death Korps prepare to do what they do best… die.
“It doesn’t matter whether your blade, in actuality, is always out of its sheathe, though you will look like an idiot if it is.”
She’s terribly mysterious!
Plus, she can cut guns in half with her mind!
Did you hear that?
I hadn’t heard that.
And always speaks in chiasmus.
Are those Maia Lead slugs?
possibly
lorimar
iron
instead
(spoilers for Foundation here)
“A man who strikes without thought can cut God.”
oh hey that’s exactly how a godlike character was killed in Foundation. Is this a reference?.
Power through ignorant want is a recurring theme in K6BD, and that line is an excerpt from Meti’s Sword Manual, which deals with similar matters.
In foundation, it’s more of a clever workaround. In K6BD, it’s a fundamental property of the omniverse.
It only took her ten years to learn how to cut bullets.
Anti tank missiles, that was a challenge.
I’d wager my skin that I could cut an anti-tank missile. Well, one anyway.
Question is: will it detonate while cutting it?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably not – a high Master of Cutting as herself would sever the projectile without mishap. I worry for whatever is behind her, as the fineness of the cut will make the weapon unstable in its passage
cleaver girl
Certainly, she has a sharp mind.
I suspect Ms. Murder the Thrones and Topple Their Gods cut rather more than just that bullet. I wonder, do any of those soldiers still live?
Also, cutting the bullet in half without exerting the lateral force necessary to separate the halves really shouldn’t do anything to change the trajectory of the halves. Which means cutting the bullet wasn’t the thing she did that actually defended her. And yet she took the time and effort to divide the bullet, among the actions effected by that single cut.
No, I suspect one or more of those guards have been divided.
It does seem she both cut the bullet, and deflected it, when the former was not quite required.
I personally suspect the guards have until next page to be divided, but we shall see.
Oh, I get it. She cut space as well as the bullet. That’s why the bullet changed course (and maybe teleported?), even though the cut was so perfect.
So did she cut it once and deflect it once, or are be going to still see a hole in her head in the next panel (if she only cut it once, leaving it’s path unaltered)?
I believe she Cut as the bullet passed through her head, and left the bullet the worse off for it.
I’ve cut god. Well gods. Well they were worshipped as gods.
If this works as it looks she’s about to cleave people apart with her forehead. Headbutt chop if you will.
Not very impressive a bullet will shatter even when it strikes water
I’m guessing she pulled out a hidden weapon and cut the bullet, but for a second I thought the bullet hit her in the face, but bounced off and cracked in half due to her sheer badassery.
Is it just me, or do two of those soldiers resemble the Techno Washingtons from the party with a different uniform and a helmet?
That bullet is strange. An earthly bullet would have a lead core, to match that lead tip. This one has a black substance at the tip, but no lead core.
What is it?
Erudite thought leads us to: This bullet is not made of lead and brass. This bullet is made of rose gold, which is an ideal bullet material if cost is no object.
What then of the black tip?
Given that the armies of the Demiurges are not bound by such niceties as the Geneva Convention, it is likely their bullets are tipped by a fatal dose of poison. Arsenic is a classic, Polonium-210 a more high-tech and lethal possibility.
Just because these soldiers LOOK old-fashioned does not mean they are not incredibly lethal.
Bullets of gold and poison! Appropriate for the Demiurges.
No rifling grooves on the bullet? Are these smooth bores?
This is a trifle unusual.
It is possible the rifles use some magnetic or magical mechanism to induce spin in the projectiles.
Or maybe they simply use polygonal rifling, which is much harder to see on a fired projectile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_rifling
Muskets? MUSKETS? An immortal demon-slaying Blade of Want was used by the wielder of the Key of Kings to undermine the bearer of the Word GLORY, not to mention White Chain and Juggernaut Star undoubtedly closing in fast, and let’s just throw in the one and only Meti too.. and they brought muskets. Those guys are gonna have a bad time.
Technically, these look like bolt-actions. Specifically, they look sort of like Gewehr-98’s, the classic German WW1-era rifle chambered in the brutal 8mm Mauser cartridge.
If so, that is a very sophisticated armament indeed.
“I hope she’s on our side” – Allison, probably.
I have that same expression swatting at flies
Can any of the sages here deduce the reason that Mother Om’s soldiers use copper core bullets with soft tips?
Throne’s laws banning advanced firearms won’t apply out here in Mottom’s turf, out of her 111,111 universes, surely someone has invented lead core soft tips and surely money is no object, so why choose these?
If I had mastered smiling in the eighth way, I might be so impertinent as to wonder if these are easier to draw, such that a laymen can still tell what it was before.
Its probably a little difficult to keep up with the cutting edge of munition technology from 111,111 worlds all at once. Plus depending on the methods of production it might just be easier to make copper core instead of tearing down the previous system of manufacturing to get a small boost to shot power. Mottom seems like the type of overlord to have entire worlds dedicated to the production of a single type of bullet.
The technology itself is anything any primitive metalsmith can create and I doubt it would run afoul of any of the laws even in Throne. Such bullets penetrate deep which can be advantageous when trying to pierce the skulls of larger beasts. Because they do not use lead, they do not foul the weapon as quickly and the soft tip forces the bullet to deform into a shape similar to a mushroom which makes it more lethal.
Lead isn’t lavish enough for Mottom, even when it’s clearly more practical.
Works better against wendigos.
That projectile was not cut.
It was merely presented with a logical fallacy and found itself of two minds on the matter.
‘Sword brains are the best brain’
-Nhill Bii, The Science Lord of the Silent Peaks of Om.