Volume 2 Page 16
Posted June 27, 2016 at 12:01 am

Panels 1-2: A serious wheelgun aficionado of my acquaintance assured me that this sequence was indeed semi-plausible, as a uncocked double-action revolver can indeed be stopped by seizing its cylinder like so. (With its hammer cocked, I gather that a very different story might possibly unfold.) Needless to say: Kids, don’t try this one at home!

(Sad to say, I’m old enough to have seen the television show that spawned and popularized the still-extant “Kids, don’t try this at home” meme: ABC’s 1980-84 reality-TV extravaganza That’s Incredible!—don’t forget the exclamation point!—which featured so many dangerous and imitation-inspiring stunts that the hosts were eventually forced to remind naive and weak-minded 80s youths such as myself to avoid replicating the show’s cheerfully dunderheaded daredevilry.)

I was about to comment that Thugboy was displaying proper gun safety by keeping his finger off the revolver’s trigger—but, as we see in panel 2, he appears to be pointing the wheelgun directly at Ninjette, which is most assuredly not proper gun safety. (Though the gun might actually be pointed just clear of her, but the camera angle makes this unclear.) What can I say, urban and suburban folks? As the proverbial hick from the sticks, I grew up in a firearm-intensive environment in which gun safety was drilled into my head from wee ladhood on. I have a vivid recollection of catching Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction on its premiere night and, during the in-car scene during which Vincent turns around—with gun in hand—to address the ill-fated Marvin, found myself feverishly thinking, “Poor gun safety! Very poor gun safety!” (Lo and behold, I was certainly proved correct in this insight.)

Panel 2: Enjoy Ninjette’s sports-bra top on this page, as I completely forgot about it until a few months ago; in the modern era, this garment will make a triumphant return—at last!—in Empowered vol. 10. For the record, I should probably clarify that Ninjette sewed that shuriken logo on the front of the sports bra herself, lest readers think that ninjutsu is so widespread in the Empverse that sports-gear manufacturers produce specific, niche-market “ninja-wear.” (Though I do find that idea rather intriguing, on second thought…)

-Adam Warren

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