page 714 – New Toys
Remember when I complained about Astrid’s gun and said that I oughta go back to copying guns form other Sci-Fi sources and calling it “homage”? Well, here we go! Every single one of those guns is from some other, better known work. Let’s see how many of ’em you guys can identify! …or more accurately, let’s see if anybody can see through my sloppy art and tell what the heck I was trying to do. And speaking of revisiting earlier ideas, the new Voting Incentive is a more elaborate take on one from a few weeks ago (and also a return to form after Tuesday’s shirtless boy fest)
(Historical Notes: The old comments got ALMOST all of the guns right. Left to right, they’re the Sentry Robots’ guns from The Black Hole, the Stormtrooper gun from Star Wars, the Klingon disruptor pistol from Star Trek, Han Solo’s blaster from Star Wars, a Cardassian disruptor riffle, a stun gun from Space: 1999, and a Colonial blaster from classic Battlestar Galactica. The only one nobody got was the Cardassian riffle, and even then they still could tell it was SOME kind of Star Trek thing.)
re: Alt-text: Also, we learn from TV that guns are best fired when held sideways, contain unlimited numbers of bullets, and despite the fact that guns themselves have no recoil at all, being hit by a bullet weighing less than an ounce will nearly always be sufficient to launch a 200lb adult up into the air and across the room. TV physics works on very similar principles to Mad Science.
Also, you can TOTALLY bullseye anything while holding a firearm in just one hand while running… as long as you’re a main character.
Unless you’re shooting at the Main Antagonist, in which case you can’t hit him (or at least not with a kill shot) even at very close range no matter how many times you shoot unless it’s within the last 10 minutes or so of the show.