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GIANTninjaR0B0T In reply to ManFromSun [2007-09-20 14:17:51 +0000 UTC]

Okay, here's the background story that you would never be able to figure out from just these pages....

The girl is a former assasin who gave up her profession after falling in love with this relatively weak guy (whose photo is in her pocket watch/necklace). But the guy wanted to prove that he was strong enough to protect her so he entered this sporting event called "Death Match" which is essentially Thunderdome ("two man enter, one man leave"). (The photo in the girl's pocket watch is the guy's promotional photo, which is why the Death Match logo is behind him.) The guy was killed which pissed off the girl something fierce. So she decided to take it out on the guy who directly killed her boyfriend (the big guy on the first page who wears the championship belt), the guards who facilitated the event, the audience who cheered, and the executives who run the event (the suits behind the mirrored glass). Finally she just blows up the who frigging place, because ... well, she just doesn't do anything half-assed.

So there you go. Hopefully that clears everything up... And no, I'm not insane.

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ManFromSun In reply to GIANTninjaR0B0T [2007-09-20 15:57:11 +0000 UTC]

Everything all cleared up, and I can't thank you enough for writing this, it was a really nice read and made everything clearer than crystal. No thoughts of you being insane, perhaps insanely cool, but otherwise, no.

I totally suggest you put the descriptions under the comics, so everyone else will have the benefit of you writing all this too them.

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GIANTninjaR0B0T In reply to ManFromSun [2007-09-20 14:08:30 +0000 UTC]

The next two panels are from the exact same point-of-view as the last panel on the previous page: a close up of mirrored glass.

Panel 1: Reflection of girl landing in front of the mirror (she jumped off the fence in the previous page). Her pistols are holstered on her thighs and she has slung the big gun (I used to know the exact type but not anymore -- it's the same kind that the soldiers use in the movie "Jin-Roh") around and has it pointed at the glass.

Panel 2: Notice the sfx in the bottom of the panel? That's the girl shooting at the glass, which shatters, killing the suited men behind it. She needed to use the big gun because the mirrored glass is "bullet proof" against normal guns.

Panel 3: Girl walks through the mirrored glass. Two body guards were waiting to ambush her on either side, but she pegs them anyway. A window to the outside is on the other side of the room (closest to the viewer), which has been shattered also since the bullets she fired were so strong as to penetrate through the mirrored glass to the window on the other side of the room.

Panel 4: Girl is now standing in front of the window leading to the outside. She flips open the pocket watch which she wears around her neck and at the same time pegs the guy on the ground. You also see a close-up of the pocketwatch which has a torn photo of some dude (notice the faded logo behind the dude is SUPPOSED to be the same one as on the big-guy's belt on the first page). Nine mini-clocks tick on the face of the watch.

Panel 5: This is supposed to be the same hall that the girl walked out of on page 1. Remember the glint that was behind her on page 1? That was this bomb. The nine mini-clock in the previous panel are supposed to imply that there are 9 total bombs scattered throughout the arena.

Panel 6: View from above the arena which explodes. (Did she escape, or was she killed as well? It's up to you to decide.) Part of a blimp can be seen in the bottom right ("Ad Blimp"), advertising the "Death Match" Tonight between "Champion" and "Challenger". (Note that I based this scene of of the "point" in downtown Pittsburgh, where my wife is from.)

(Story background in next reply....)

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ManFromSun In reply to GIANTninjaR0B0T [2007-09-20 15:55:10 +0000 UTC]

It all makes so much sense now. The story really helps the pictures to a better understanding and makes it whole, I really liked it before, but now I love it.

I had no idea that those were mini-clocks in the pocket watch, I just thought it was some kind of futuristic device which she released the bomb with, and that the mini-clocks were buttons. I also did not notice at all that the logo behind the dude (who I assume is her old boyfriend or possibly brother and that's whom she is avenging) was the same as the big guy had.

Oh, and of course I think she escaped, she's too cool to die like that (even though it would make sense, she wanting to join her boyfriend/brother in the life after this)

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