I suspect she read his intent before he knew it himself…
Nice last panel. “Oh. You aren’t human either.” We’ll see whether Lingen is clueful enough to realize that it’s time to re-evaluate his assumptions about his surroundings.
BTW, the action swoop seems very unreasonable given everyone’s relative position in frame 1. I know drama requires some sudden movement there, and something more reasonable in the way of breaking grips is harder to draw, but.
As is the fact that the gun hand goes from held to unheld to held to grip-broken.
Actually, the gun stays in the same hand at all times. The third panel is the odd one out as that “swoop” is far too exaggerated. Mr. Lingen could not have moved 270 degrees like considering the sword and gun’s previous positions. In fact, the comic could do well without the third frame entirely.
Actually, the swoop is not as exagerated as it seems. I know for a fact (and by experience) you can easily break free from a grip by surprising your opponent with a clever sudden change of direction. If the opponent’s grip is pulling you left to prevent you from going right, go left then : you’ll use your opponent’s strength against him.
That’s exactly what Linghen did here. his swoop was nothing more than a sudden change of direction, although a very quick and agile one. Also, i don’t think he intended to shoot a second time here, he mearly wanted to underline he was not accepting the idea not out of being outnumbered.
The gun doesn’t change hands — but the only way it gets from where it was to where it winds up is either a much smaller motion, or a complete spin (which I don’t think he’s competent to do with the Lady standing there; it’s about as awkward a move as possible, and the swoop doesn’t indicate it), or a jerk back and then forward again (which might be appropriate to free the sword hand, but which again isn’t indicated.)
Or someone put in the dramatic move without thinking about whether it was needed. Which is what I suspect is more likely.
However you slice it, it’s unclear as shown. Not a disaster, but worth pointing out as an opportunity to improve.
(If we didn’t care about this being the best it could be, we wouldn’t comment.)
I wonder how this vampire thing works in this world. If those fools shoot him, will he heal and heal quickly?
I wonder how Lingen managed to wrench his sword hand from The Lady’s grip. Lingen is so out of her league… right?
I suspect she read his intent before he knew it himself…
Nice last panel. “Oh. You aren’t human either.” We’ll see whether Lingen is clueful enough to realize that it’s time to re-evaluate his assumptions about his surroundings.
BTW, the action swoop seems very unreasonable given everyone’s relative position in frame 1. I know drama requires some sudden movement there, and something more reasonable in the way of breaking grips is harder to draw, but.
As is the fact that the gun hand goes from held to unheld to held to grip-broken.
Work on continuity, please.
Actually, the gun stays in the same hand at all times. The third panel is the odd one out as that “swoop” is far too exaggerated. Mr. Lingen could not have moved 270 degrees like considering the sword and gun’s previous positions. In fact, the comic could do well without the third frame entirely.
Actually, the swoop is not as exagerated as it seems. I know for a fact (and by experience) you can easily break free from a grip by surprising your opponent with a clever sudden change of direction. If the opponent’s grip is pulling you left to prevent you from going right, go left then : you’ll use your opponent’s strength against him.
That’s exactly what Linghen did here. his swoop was nothing more than a sudden change of direction, although a very quick and agile one. Also, i don’t think he intended to shoot a second time here, he mearly wanted to underline he was not accepting the idea not out of being outnumbered.
About the swoop, it still should be more like 360°, rather than 180° or 270° here, that’s maybe why it feels odd to some people…
I took some pretty close looking to see why there were THREE hands holding the pistol in panel 2.
I’m not even going to comment about panel 3
The gun doesn’t change hands — but the only way it gets from where it was to where it winds up is either a much smaller motion, or a complete spin (which I don’t think he’s competent to do with the Lady standing there; it’s about as awkward a move as possible, and the swoop doesn’t indicate it), or a jerk back and then forward again (which might be appropriate to free the sword hand, but which again isn’t indicated.)
Or someone put in the dramatic move without thinking about whether it was needed. Which is what I suspect is more likely.
However you slice it, it’s unclear as shown. Not a disaster, but worth pointing out as an opportunity to improve.
(If we didn’t care about this being the best it could be, we wouldn’t comment.)
Whether panel 3 was poorly done or inappropriate is of little importance compared to the result in panel 4.