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Post by KMar on Mar 17, 2014 7:00:48 GMT
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Post by Gotolei on Mar 17, 2014 7:04:03 GMT
Tom you f-
XD
I guess this is one of the more SFW ways to show it anyways.
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Post by secondofnone on Mar 17, 2014 7:04:57 GMT
So quick, you don't even realize what happened. The best way to go, after "in your sleep of old age."
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Post by Gulby on Mar 17, 2014 7:05:12 GMT
Oh well. Poor Mort. é_è But very nice nice art. Now waiting for wenesday.
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chaosvii
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Post by chaosvii on Mar 17, 2014 7:05:26 GMT
Seems like pretty important context to know when you're dead.
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Post by Chancellor on Mar 17, 2014 7:09:58 GMT
A tasteful way of going about it I think.
If he does in fact immediately meet Jones after dying, that first conversation will be interesting. Maybe Jones' implacable bluntness will lend itself well to the boy's coping process with learning he's been blown to bloody bits well over half of a century before his time.
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Post by freeformline on Mar 17, 2014 7:12:15 GMT
Now taking bets one how many pages it takes for young Mort to die. My guess is next Wednesday, seven pages after the chapter title page. Off by one update. I'll take it. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Mar 17, 2014 7:12:26 GMT
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meltea
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Heavy rain of snow
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Post by meltea on Mar 17, 2014 7:13:27 GMT
It still might be a dud...
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 17, 2014 7:13:49 GMT
Death by design!
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Post by wombat on Mar 17, 2014 7:15:38 GMT
Shhh, clearly young Morty just took a nap on a sunny afternoon and had a strange dream All this n-n-non-sense about him dying is making me emotional.  |
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melkior
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Post by melkior on Mar 17, 2014 7:28:55 GMT
I was wondering how on this Earth Tom could possibly draw the (very messy) death of a child tastefully.
You know what? He did it.
*Bows respectfully in Tom's general direction*
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Post by Lightice on Mar 17, 2014 8:03:23 GMT
Next page: Jones covered all over with poor Mortimer.
...Too soon?
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Post by philman on Mar 17, 2014 8:19:20 GMT
Ah, I knew it wasn't a V1 rocket, the general tone of the people seemed to indicate it was much earlier in the war than that.
Still, well done Tom for how you handled this, I wasn't sure how it was going to happen, but this is far more sad than anything more graphic.
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Post by Señor Goose on Mar 17, 2014 8:30:33 GMT
Next page: Jones covered all over with poor Mortimer. ...Too soon? And the asphalt, and the buildings, and the glass, and the dirt, and fifty meters away... |
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Post by foresterr on Mar 17, 2014 8:47:36 GMT
Next page: Jones covered all over with poor Mortimer. ...Too soon? And the asphalt, and the buildings, and the glass, and the dirt, and fifty meters away... I think Jones' general immunity to everything includes immovability by external impacts. If so, and she keeps standing pretty much at the point of impact, the blast wave should scour her clean of pretty much everything, right? (yeah, I know, clothes too, somebody mentioned it already  ) Anyway, I like this page. Reminds me of the one with swords for some reason. I hope somebody manages to do the research Tom is asking for. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Mar 17, 2014 9:30:16 GMT
Only 110 lbs? Poo. I was hoping for something bigger. SC50 is the lower limit of Nazi air-dropped munitions.  " This picture immediately above gives the relative sizes of the bombs. From front to back are the 50k, the 250kg, the 500kg (in the wooden frame), the 1000kg (nicknamed by the Germans "Hermann") and the 1800Kg (nicknamed by the Germans "Satan"). The bomb right at the back appears to be a 50kg variant. "
Some interesting history on daisy cutter fuses:
"The concept for the fuse is attributed to an Air America employee who grasped the idea during a night of drinking. Shortly thereafter, his drinking buddy, a Royal Lao Air Force airman at Louang Phrabang, gathered the needed materials for the prototype and started welding used aircraft gun barrels directly into the nose fuse cavity of bombs."
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Post by agasa on Mar 17, 2014 9:37:03 GMT
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Post by freeformline on Mar 17, 2014 9:52:46 GMT
And the asphalt, and the buildings, and the glass, and the dirt, and fifty meters away... I think Jones' general immunity to everything includes immovability by external impacts. If so, and she keeps standing pretty much at the point of impact, the blast wave should scour her clean of pretty much everything, right? (yeah, I know, clothes too, somebody mentioned it already ) Anyway, I like this page. Reminds me of the one with swords for some reason. I hope somebody manages to do the research Tom is asking for. It seems to me that she is movable, just very heavy: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1108So she'll be unharmed by the bomb, but she might be in a different place after the dust settles. Honestly, I am more interested in how Mort and Jones get to know each other after the explosion than the mechanics of a Jones-bomb interaction. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Mar 17, 2014 10:26:15 GMT
Huh!
Very classy, Tom. I'm impressed.
Also, I bet Jones has had the ability to see the ethereal beings the entire time, she just doesn't have any power herself.
And she leads Mort to the court.
Heh.
Mort Court.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 17, 2014 10:38:44 GMT
My thought when seeing this page: it looks like Morty experiences the same "disassembly insight" as Kat on the roof here. Only 110 lbs? Poo. I was hoping for something bigger. SC50 is the lower limit of Nazi air-dropped munitions. A piece of dark irony, evidently: the only variant from which Jones could shield Morty with good probability of success if she knew what it is and where it falls. |
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Post by philman on Mar 17, 2014 10:49:05 GMT
That seems to be full of phosphorus, which would make it an incendiary device rather than an explosive bomb. i.e. it was designed to start fires rather than blow things up. These were indeed used a lot by the Germans bombing the UK, but usually alongside normal explosive bombs (Blow things up with the explosive bombs, then drop incendiary devices on top to start fires in the wreckage) |
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Post by Gotolei on Mar 17, 2014 11:02:33 GMT
I think Jones' general immunity to everything includes immovability by external impacts. If so, and she keeps standing pretty much at the point of impact, the blast wave should scour her clean of pretty much everything, right? (yeah, I know, clothes too, somebody mentioned it already ) Anyway, I like this page. Reminds me of the one with swords for some reason. I hope somebody manages to do the research Tom is asking for. It seems to me that she is movable, just very heavy: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1108So she'll be unharmed by the bomb, but she might be in a different place after the dust settles. Honestly, I am more interested in how Mort and Jones get to know each other after the explosion than the mechanics of a Jones-bomb interaction. Hm..how far might the bomb be able to move, or maybe propel her? *imagines a Jones-shaped hole through a few buildings |
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Post by agasa on Mar 17, 2014 11:07:52 GMT
philman : Does that mean that Mort was burned alive? By fire? Could that somehow connect him to Annie's Fire Elemental's nature? The only other person that she helped as a psychopomp did die in a fire. EDIT:Ok, except for her mom, but that's a special case.
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Post by temnoc on Mar 17, 2014 11:35:16 GMT
One thing for certain: that doesn't look like a kangaroo.
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Post by goldenknots on Mar 17, 2014 11:44:15 GMT
Mort looks quite peaceful. I agree, Tom chose well in his approach to this. Looking forward to how he handles the aftermath, though.
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Post by Xan on Mar 17, 2014 13:35:38 GMT
Yeah, Agasa, it's the incendiary variant. SC50 type bombs were filled either with powedered or cast explosives, the second possibility more likely. So, molten TNT or similar high-explosive (yes, it's safe to melt it) is poured into this metal shell, and just cools down to be a uniform solid. Something like that:  As for interior, it's just a flat metal wall, something like this:  Also, today I learned that "fuze" is a correct spelling. |
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Post by agasa on Mar 17, 2014 14:07:34 GMT
Ah, and here i was drawing a nice, interesting theory like -
"Annie is destined to be the fire-related psychopomp, caring for beings like her mom, or arson victims."
That can still be true, right?
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Post by thedoctor on Mar 17, 2014 14:19:34 GMT
I think Jones' general immunity to everything includes immovability by external impacts. If so, and she keeps standing pretty much at the point of impact, the blast wave should scour her clean of pretty much everything, right? (yeah, I know, clothes too, somebody mentioned it already ) Anyway, I like this page. Reminds me of the one with swords for some reason. I hope somebody manages to do the research Tom is asking for. It seems to me that she is movable, just very heavy: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1108So she'll be unharmed by the bomb, but she might be in a different place after the dust settles. Honestly, I am more interested in how Mort and Jones get to know each other after the explosion than the mechanics of a Jones-bomb interaction. "The Mechanics of a Jones-Bomb Interaction"; a doctoral physics research paper in three parts. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but that made me laugh pretty hard! Also, for those of you from Great Britain/Queen's English regions, is fuze the standard spelling there? I know it is an alternate spelling (we 'Mercans done spelled it "fuse"), but is that actually a British thing, or just an older spelling? |
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 17, 2014 14:21:24 GMT
What if Mort is already familiar with the Court? Maybe that's not a schematic, but Mort closing his eyes and using his ability to disassemble it.
Otherwise, things aren't going to be pretty. Mort may be brave, but looking at one's disembodied parts can't be good for you.
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