Page Commentary No. 142

Note: Apologies for this week's Page Commentary being a few hours late!

Gunwild: It's really important to me that even though we keep having Theira's excellent aim not resolve situations once and for all, she isn't depicted as actually missing a bunch and stuff. That way you're not just hearing all about this one thing that a character hangs on, but when the time actually comes they are unable to do it. I hate when that happens.

Psu: Gunwild has been VERY specific about that. I imagine a close analogy is Worf in Star Trek the Next Generation. He has his thing but he essentially jobs in every fight in that show. What we make sure with Theira is that she does her job and its done extremely well, but other factors out of her control help give the target the slip.

Gunwild: Yeah. Poor Worf, he's so strong and lives to be a warrior... but they always throw him at a threat so that it can toss him around effortlessly, just to say, "This is a Star Trek problem, it won't be solved by force! It'll take thinking!"

Psu: Cassiopeia is certainly thinking about something.

Gunwild: I have no idea what you're talking about. Hey, do you think Salt can shoot cartridges out of his internal bandolier right into whatever weapon he's holding when he wants to reload? That seems formidable. I wonder if he can shoot them using his own arm-gloobs...

Psu: Oh definitely. I don’t have the concept art to prove it but a vanaa trick shot is definitely learning how to launch objects inside them at speed. But it wouldn’t be with the same force as firing it with a weapon. It’s like squeezing something between your fingers and it shoots out, there’s just a lot of friction in the way.

Gunwild: I mean I think the real trick would be triggering the cartridge with equivalent force to the hammer of a gun. After that the cartridge propels itself. As opposed to those Aperture Science turrets from Portal that just chuck the entire bullet, shell and all at you.

Psu: A couple things to talk about, I think this is our clearest shot of Theira’s mandibles in the comic by that point. And I also wanted to ask about the SFX in the first panel. I think I forgot the reference and it’s just another one of those very specific Gunwild sound effects that we don’t have often enough.

Gunwild: Ah, it's after Trowa Barton from Gundam Wing, whose giant robot was eventually tricked out to just open up its shoulders, chest, and even legs and fire an absurd number of missiles. 

Psu: Sound effects are fun!