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Jul 2016

Chapter 10: Page 21 - Point Blank

Posted by / in Comic / 23 comments

Hello crew. Sorry for the delay. Dan is still super busy and I (Nick) was stuck in interminable meeting hell all day. I love this page, let me say though that the title (Instructions Unclear…) is not final. Dan didn’t label the page in Basecamp, so I made this one up.

5 points for the meme I’m referencing, and your conclusions to said meme.

Dan Edit: Oh Nick. Sigh… *renames, leaves rest of comments for fun*

  • Delta-v

    Fully lost all control, or retained less than full control?

    It looks like the armblade didn’t survive the encounter either. It also looks like Tenzin lost part of his visor due to the backblast from that point-blank shot.

    I guess you don’t need a ceiling fan to suffer from “instructions unclear”.

  • DeNitro

    With opinion one ruined,, Jane using arm to break blade and gut Deathbot like fish, Second option is quickly aim gun at it’s vital bits pull trigger and hope you’re right..
    Here’s hoping there’s one less functional Deathbot to battle one handed… 😲

  • PensivePenguin

    Hey! I only discovered the story recently, but I’m digging the this sci-fi art style!

    With regards to the meme:

    Instructions to Deathbot: KILL TENZIN. And don’t get your parts stuck in ceiling fans!

    Deathbot: Instruction Unclear. Got blade stuck in hand; also a gun in my face. New ord-kzzzt

    =LOS=

    • NickDA

      Welcome welcome, glad to have you. Its a fun crowd here (‘cept for that Matt guy… gotta watch out for him)

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        Yeah, I hear he’s crazy.
        Hangs out with rabbits.
        And has some weird thing with thrown bricks.

  • Adriano

    Instructions unclear: sung the Machine Song to a Meatbag.

  • Ian Brown

    looks like composite Armour wins this one. that deathbot now looks angry. if its the same one i think it is.

  • NickDA

    Booo to @Dan’s rename… I wanted a “grenade launcher instructions unclear blew self up meme”… booo… @Matt woulda totally nailed it…

    • Matt [in Middletown]

      Magic Deathbot ball says, “response unclear, try again later”

      • NickDA

        He lives!!!

        • Matt [in Middletown]

          “Matt.exe has performed an illegal operation and has been terminated by Deathbot Task manager. Please consult system administration if this problem persists.”

    • Heh, I left your full comment, and even added the context of the previous title ;P

      • Honza Prchal

        It takes a confident man (to wear that hat). You show many of the classical virtues … now to start trying to root out the failings via the Internets! Kidding.

    • Matt [in Middletown]

      Firing instructions unclear, minimum distance is ten meters and not ten inches. So I lost some face.(mask)

  • Listen: You can hear the exposed cabling on deathbot’s back saying “Slllliiiiicccee Uussssss…!”

  • Matt [in Middletown]

    What it says now: “Chapter 10: Page 21 – Point Blank”
    What Matt read: “Chapter 10: Page 21 – Boint Plank”
    Matt afterwards: O_o???

    • NickDA

      The title was temporarily “Instructions Unclear…” I forgot some of the cruder variants of that meme, which apparently Dan didn’t like (And/Or he always had a different title in mind and just updated it when he got the chance… but where’s the conspiracy in that?)

      • Matt [in Middletown]

        I did see the original title you had.
        However, I have “typo vision” which will obliterate what I am reading in the method described.
        So there I was trying to figure out what a boint plank was and if it was some terrible hint.

        • NickDA

          Ah, I blame smertfoan…

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            The hideous scourge of “smertfoan”, for smertfoan addeth and smertfoan scrambles all day.

        • Delta-v

          As a person who is mildly dyslexic (occasionally mangled numbers, left-right confusion) your description of “typo vision” sounds familiar…..

          • Matt [in Middletown]

            Even better to be reading, skip half of a sentence, read half of an unrelated sentence and yet have it make sense.
            I’ve done that often enough to not read out loud.

  • When all else fails, shoot it in the face. Elegant solution.