If I'm right, you're being used as a weapon. That's a terrible thing to be. I should know. I was a weapon too, once.
-- Alice
-- Strip 85
At least we know how she's been keeping shooting for so long. Assuming that thing (it looks like something from the Colt-Ingam MAC-10/-11 family) shoots 9mm or 45-calibre pistol rounds, those extender drums probably carry around 400 rounds; enough for 40 seconds continual fire at sub-machine-gun rates of fire.
Why shoot at Alice, knowing that she's bulletproof?
It may just be weird perspective, but panel 2 makes it look like the new character is about 12 feet tall.
Alice said that Ms. Bullet-Storm wouldn't run out of bullets. Either she has a lot more magazines stashed nearby, or that fancy magazine is actually a replicator.
A.L.I.C.E.:psyduck:
Alice said that Ms. Bullet-Storm wouldn't run out of bullets. Either she has a lot more magazines stashed nearby, or that fancy magazine is actually a replicator.
Alice said that Ms. Bullet-Storm wouldn't run out of bullets. Either she has a lot more magazines stashed nearby, or that fancy magazine is actually a replicator.
Or she knows the local bullet farmer, like in Fury Road.
I know Alice denied being friends, but she may have been still been exaggerating when she said "acquaintance".
Just a thought that occurred to me earlier this evening: Alice could be a contraction for A.L.I.C.E.
Autonomous
Life-
Immitation
Combat
Endoform
New comic's up. I wonder what Alice did to get Malice so pissed off at her.I spent way too long trying to figure out when she was named before I figured out it was just a pun. Well played.
New comic's up. I wonder what Alice did to get Malice so pissed off at her.
That looks nothing like an Ingram, and almost everything like a Micro-Uzi, while assembled or exploded.Then it's a Micro-Uzi, what's the problem? Sure, Jeph says otherwise outside of the comic, but even people who put stock in "word of god" don't think that it outranks actual evidence from the canon itself, do they?
...even people who put stock in "word of god" don't think that it outranks actual evidence from the canon itself, do they?
Okay, other question: Do they have super strength to go with their indestructibility?
Look at that smile! She's got issues... and a recoilless rifle.
It's clearly an explosive round, isn't the blast what's knocking Alice back?
It's clearly an explosive round, isn't the blast what's knocking Alice back?
If it is a Boys Anti Tank rifle, she must have been doing something quite funky with the cartridges. I assume the British would not have dropped them in World War 2 for being generally crap and useless (so says Wikipedia) if the rounds carried that kind of energy. Even Tiger tanks would've been quickly looking like 60-ton colanders if shot at with one of those.
Alice said that if the Praeses invaded she could inflict severe losses. To do that she must have long-range offensive weapons.
Actually, you're overestimating the armour penetration here. A 50-calibre bullet that has evolved into multi-mile range anti-light vehicle munition bounced off of Panzer mk.3 armour like soft rubber balls. You needed a three-inch armour-piercing explosive shell to penetrate that.
Alice is well built - lets assume she weights 65kg. Gets knocked backwards at 3m/s.
Where did you get that figure for Alice's post-impact velocity from? She could have just as easily been knocked back off of her feet at an initial veloocity measured in centimetres per second. For an object with a high centre-of-gravity like the humanoid body, that's enough to knock us over.True enough. And I'm only guessing. But it does look like she took a big old thump and was flying through the air, limbs flailing.
What about the flash? Well, the bullet struck Alice's exo-armour, which I suspect is an 'immovable object'. Thus, I suspect that a lot of its kinetic energy may have been turned into thermal energy, so what we're seeing is incandescent copper and lead radiating away from the impact point.I think a hyper-velocity projectile, going fast enough to vaporize on impact, is superficially indistinguishable from being an explosive round, as already postulated. Besides, we probably won't find out if its one or the other as guns aren't really Jephs thing - I get the idea he just finds a reference picture of a cool one, draws it accurately, does some cool explosions, then just leaves it at that.