Hahaha, the bullet that blows Poulette’s brains in every direction still leaves a neat, circular hole in his tongue. It’s the little touches that make it special.
I love the perspective… we’re on the ground with Poulette, looking at Chuck running away from his cocked point of view. Makes you FEEL the scene. Very cinematic!
I dunno, this latest Krokk segment has gone into Bad Action Movie territory, where the hero is surrounded by enemies who can’t aim and can’t find the trigger.
Actually, the legionnaires are all good marksmen. Top of their class! Chuck was simply designed to be better, faster, stronger.
As for Poulette, well… you have to assume that Chuck has got laughing skulls in his eyes when he can convince Poulette that he could pull the trigger on him at a distance of seven inches and still miss.
@JY I don’t know if he convinced him that he’d miss, more like he either might not have time to make that trigger pull, or that the trigger pull wouldn’t matter – that he was dead whether he hit brown or not. Lets face it, its hard to say just how much of WB is as squishy as it looks – subdermal implants are a pain that way, and its even harder to say whether or not even a mortal wound would stop chuck before chuck did horribly bad things to our suicide victim here.
Scruffy probably has the right of it, which makes me wonder if anyone’s ever tried to catalog ALL of Chuck’s implants and upgrades (I played old-school Shadowrun back in the day, and there were a lot of options for your “Street Samurai” types — both cyberwear and biowear, including subdermal armor and artificial adrenal glands). Though it would be even more badass if Chuck had nothing, and simply BLUFFED Poulette into killing himself.
There’s also the fact that Crokk would probably do something worse to Poulette if he managed to kill Chuck and walk out of it, on account of the whole, you know, “I want him screaming” deal.
@JY: No need to bluff on that. Being that close makes a gun more of a danger to the wielder than to his target; the gun is now only a tool for intimidation. If the target’s not intimidated, the gunman is fucked.
AHHHH YES!!! My birthday brain splatter. what a turn of events. Thanks J
What the FUCK…!
I love it! One of those “Chuck Luck” moments where things go better than he had hoped.
Hahaha, the bullet that blows Poulette’s brains in every direction still leaves a neat, circular hole in his tongue. It’s the little touches that make it special.
Now, Good old Charlie Brown has to get his bionic arm back, and he’ll be on easy street!
Excellent decision.
badass.
Author! Author!
“He chose… wisely.”
I love the perspective… we’re on the ground with Poulette, looking at Chuck running away from his cocked point of view. Makes you FEEL the scene. Very cinematic!
yes Yes YES !
JB continues to surprise, delight and DELIVER THE GOODS with good ‘ol weapon brown…
looking forward to more and helping with that T-drive ;)~
Anyone have any nachos to go with that nice fresh chunky salsa?
Mmm,salsa.
I think someone made the suicide cock-out call dead on,no pun intended.
I dunno, this latest Krokk segment has gone into Bad Action Movie territory, where the hero is surrounded by enemies who can’t aim and can’t find the trigger.
Well whaddyaknow? I CALLED it!
@richard
Actually, the legionnaires are all good marksmen. Top of their class! Chuck was simply designed to be better, faster, stronger.
As for Poulette, well… you have to assume that Chuck has got laughing skulls in his eyes when he can convince Poulette that he could pull the trigger on him at a distance of seven inches and still miss.
I’m glad someone pointed out the nifty hole in the Captain’s tongue (with smoke rising through it!). Is that a shout out to the great Mad parodies?
I’m thinking Starchie. — Yeah, Kurtzman and Elder are definitely among Weapon Brown’s godfathers.
@JY I don’t know if he convinced him that he’d miss, more like he either might not have time to make that trigger pull, or that the trigger pull wouldn’t matter – that he was dead whether he hit brown or not. Lets face it, its hard to say just how much of WB is as squishy as it looks – subdermal implants are a pain that way, and its even harder to say whether or not even a mortal wound would stop chuck before chuck did horribly bad things to our suicide victim here.
Scruffy probably has the right of it, which makes me wonder if anyone’s ever tried to catalog ALL of Chuck’s implants and upgrades (I played old-school Shadowrun back in the day, and there were a lot of options for your “Street Samurai” types — both cyberwear and biowear, including subdermal armor and artificial adrenal glands). Though it would be even more badass if Chuck had nothing, and simply BLUFFED Poulette into killing himself.
There’s also the fact that Crokk would probably do something worse to Poulette if he managed to kill Chuck and walk out of it, on account of the whole, you know, “I want him screaming” deal.
I admire Poulette’s problem solving skills! True, with Chuck’s augmentations trying to stop him with a .30 rifle might be a gamble.
@JY: No need to bluff on that. Being that close makes a gun more of a danger to the wielder than to his target; the gun is now only a tool for intimidation. If the target’s not intimidated, the gunman is fucked.
Thus says the tavac.
Forgot to mention:
Good answer, Poulette.