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2019-04-12

by shaenon on April 12, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 12, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    If only Tip carried an extra extra clip…

    • John Campbell
      April 12, 2019, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t help much, because Alice is a revolver.

      • ahruman
        April 12, 2019, 3:13 am | # | Reply

        So it would be a moon clip.

        • thedoctor55
          April 12, 2019, 3:40 am | # | Reply

          That sounds rather cheeky.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2019, 12:11 pm | #

            It may indeed sound cheeky (lol), but moon clips are actually a great solution to the time it usually takes to reload a revolver. The only downside is that if you have a revolver that is set up for moon clips, you can’t reload it without them.

        • Xerxes Aragon
          April 12, 2019, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

          Speedloaders would be preferable in a firefight situation. Moon clips are rather clumsy and slow. With a speedloader you can be reloaded in just a few seconds. I carry 2 speedloaders when I have my .357 on me.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2019, 1:19 pm | #

            Moon clips are only clumsy and slow when you’re reloading the clips themselves, but so are speedloaders. That’s why you have them pre-loaded ahead of time, just as you do for a semiautomatic pistol. I’ve used both speedloaders and moon clips, and the moon clips are a lot faster going into the gun. And since moon clips only cost a few cents apiece, you can drop the spent ammo on the ground without worrying whether you’ll ever see it again. And they take up essentially no space, so you can carry twice as much ammo pre-loaded in moon clips as you could pre-loaded in speedloaders.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 12, 2019, 7:56 am | # | Reply

        Is that established? It doesn’t look like one.

        • Dr. Steve
          April 12, 2019, 8:11 am | # | Reply

          Shannon’s super powers are balanced by one weakness. Her Kryptonite is her difficulty in drawing decent handguns (perhaps due to a deep psychological confusion between drawing and drawing).

          • Robert Nowall
            April 12, 2019, 8:37 am | #

            I dunno. I really liked Shelby’s “don’t make me pretend I know how to use this” over the shoulder rocket launcher.

        • M. Alan Thomas II
          April 12, 2019, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

          Alice is a Colt Commando service revolver, per Tip.

          • M. Alan Thomas II
            April 12, 2019, 7:13 pm | #

            That being said, this might not be Alice.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 12, 2019, 11:30 pm | #

            Maybe it’s Trixie.

  2. Barbara K
    April 12, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    We’re still trying to figure out where he stows “Alice”. Maybe if he roots around a bit, he’ll find another clip there, too…

    • awgiedawgie
      April 12, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      He said it’s a different place every time. Maybe he’s forgotten about some of the spare ammo over the years.

  3. awgiedawgie
    April 12, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    It seems that Sweetheart doesn’t understand that this is not a “peaceful conclusion” kind of situation.

    • Candace
      April 12, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart’s never really been into violence. It’s why her creator’s plan to make her his general leading his American invasion force didn’t really work out. She’s just not that kind of girl.

      In this particular case, though, I think she’d probably better let Unity have her head, distasteful as that may be.

      • Towering Barbarian
        April 12, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        Within reason. I’d say the main reason to veto berserker rages would be that it’s good to have somebody you can question after the fight and taking prisoners isn’t the sort of thing you’d expect berserkers to be good at. @_@

        • Sparks
          April 12, 2019, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t know if “let Unity have her head” is the best way to phrase things; that seems like a really effective method to end up with headless corpses. And while that does technically solve the problem, it also introduces a whole new set of problems.

          • Eva
            April 12, 2019, 5:50 pm | #

            Unity having _her_ head and Unity grabbing everyone’s heads off their bodies for fun aren’t quite the same thing, y’know?

      • felbloodreaper
        April 16, 2019, 6:59 am | # | Reply

        Unity’s head,

        or Sweetheart’s? ;P

  4. thedoctor55
    April 12, 2019, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    They may be with the tournament,they may be Ira’s people,but don’t call me Shirley!

  5. Leslie
    April 12, 2019, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    just guessing….Alice is likely light-weight, a five-shot revolver with about an inch and half of barrel. Fits anywhere, never goes off by itself, has no safety. Left in any
    convenient hiding place for years, ALWAYS there and READY.
    If Tip ever meets a smart woman with Alice’s name and dependability, he’ll marry her. She’s his only long-term relationship.

    • Carl Fishman
      April 12, 2019, 4:12 am | # | Reply

      Not sure, but I think it was stated that Alice is Tip’s service revolver from his Air Force days. So I’m guessing 6-shot, .38 caliber, double-action.

      • John Campbell
        April 12, 2019, 4:36 am | # | Reply

        Alice is a .38 Colt Commando. Six-shot, double-action revolver. She looks to be the 2″-barrel “junior Commando” model.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 12, 2019, 7:58 am | # | Reply

          Then the gun he’s holding right now can’t be Alice.

          • =Tamar
            April 12, 2019, 10:24 am | #

            Alice with a silencer, maybe?

          • Pygar
            April 12, 2019, 10:48 am | #

            Aside from bad TV shows, there are no silenced revolvers.

          • warpzone32
            April 12, 2019, 11:41 am | #

            Maybe he had a “gown” custom-machined for alice?

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2019, 12:19 pm | #

            It may not always look like Alice, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t. As reminded above, Shaenon’s weakness has always been the ability to draw convincing firearms. I kind of have the same trouble trying to draw automobiles. I try to draw a Corvette, and it comes out looking more like a cross between a Chevette and a Volvo… and a Mack truck.

          • DonRCamp
            April 12, 2019, 1:40 pm | #

            Hard for me to believe her handgun weakness extends to drawing a slide in place of a cylinder . . .

          • DonRCamp
            April 12, 2019, 1:39 pm | #

            Holy S**T! I had to magnify the first panel to actually *see* the gun, but he seems to have traded his revolver for a 1911! Still a service sidearm, but *not* a revolver.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2019, 6:16 pm | #

            Don, I don’t know the last time you actually looked at the front end of a 1911 from that angle, but what I see in that first panel looks very similar to the barrel on my .357 Colt King Cobra. The 1911 I have doesn’t have a step in the middle of the slide.

  6. nebulousrikulau
    April 12, 2019, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    Of COURSE berzerker rages are never okay.
    NEVER tip over my coffee cup, Sweetheart!!

  7. warpzone32
    April 12, 2019, 11:35 am | # | Reply

    To be fair, nothing de-escalates a situation quite like a Snowball bezerker rage.

    • Barbara K
      April 12, 2019, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      …a berserker rage which, at its rabid height, would involve making three, rather than four copies of a form (the correct form, however), and placing the staple in the wrong corner.

  8. Bruce A Munro
    April 12, 2019, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

    Unity is open minded: she’s always open to interpretations of reality than allow rampages.

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