Actually common misconception.. anyone that plays with blades will normally get splattered .. its a well known Forensics factoid .. its almost imposable in close work to remain pristine >_< or so my sources tell me... ^_^
Wonder what scared the teacher most;
Being tied and threatened with death.
Covered in arterial blood spray.
Malati standing behind his captor covered in blood and smiling like a very happy cat.
I actually think number three is it. He is now wondering who this is and is he going to get out alive. Doubt the citizenry see the cassians out of uniform very often,
It's an android--going by the eyes--who isn't wearing a visible inhibitor and just killed the person who was about to murder him. Not hard to make a good guess at what she is*.
I remember saying it back in "Malati's Mission episode 5" about those glowing eyes, but here it's even kewler (scarier? more disturbing?) seeing that effect when she's covered in blood like that. Awesome!!!!
Oh, one more thing... Luv ya Mali, but you NEED a shower!!!
The way ol' Spooky Eyes gave those Voice terrorists a second grin is a sight to behold. It's interesting that she knows the Nova Roma fish is indeed rotting from the head and yet her programming won't let her do anything about it. I wonder which way she'll lean when the crap hits the fan?
Usually, when I write scripts or summaries for Cent to follow, I give a general idea of the effect I'd like to achieve. With this one, I was very specific about this bit in particular--I really, really wanted the effect of having the terrorist fall down to reveal Malati standing behind her. When I got this page and the previous one, I was absolutely jazzed, because Cent actually outdid my expectations by a long shot--it could have wound up looking as if Malati somehow teleported behind the woman. Instead, you can SEE that Malati is standing there without detracting one bit from the reveal in the fourth panel, thanks to the camera angles that Cent chose to use.
Rose gave me pretty clear cut ideas when she wrote this segment - yeah actually working with a script *GASP* I REALLY enjoy it when I can knock Rose's socks off .. :D it happens so rarely and she does it all the time to me :D
Scripts are a good thing. They help keep everything tight and focused. Improvising is fine too, but better in small doses. A story is like a little kid, it will wander off on you when your back is turned. =P
Well technicly the whole comic is " warning voilence / nudity / language / sexual situations / blah blah .. Im not that great a coder but if you mean the page title?
I know malati is bloodthirsty, but didnt know she was stupid.
Seems like a stupid thing to do, to kill someone who is right in the middle of "revealing all"...
See the thing is the Cassians already know the Silent voices plans .. they dont need to interrogate her also Mal took her out quickly to prevent her from triggering the bombs OR killing the guy ( and she was about to put a bullet in his skull... )
Note that Malati let her spew her rhetoric right up until the point where she was about to reveal the hostage's brain all over the floor. Noctis authorized lethal force against all hostiles, indicating that none of them were required for later interrogation. What we didn't bother to show is that Malati has a facial-recognition program running, ready to flag anybody who might actually be of greater potential value than the low-level "soldiers".
Its actually rather difficult to behead someone Malati's blades are not that long the part that extends past her closed fist is only about 5 or 6 inches ..
It looks like the teacher and Malati got lucky: nothing Malati did actually prevented the terrorist from killing him in her death throes. (Or from detonating the bomb, if she had a detonator.)
Chopping off the gun hand or at least controlling the gun before killing her would have been wiser. Or decapitating her. Or doing worse to her head (bullet into it). Anything but leaving her time to realize her throat is cut and do something nasty before she shuffles off the mortal coil.
Well, to be frank, I don't think most people have the presence of mind, when they notice their throat has just been sliced open, to attempt doing much of anything.
So that's the actual language in the background there? (We never really see it spoken, since the comic's all in English.) Is it completely made up gibberish, or is it actually Roman/Greek/other language words?
Yep .. "Lamaod" or "Modern Latin" or just "Roma" is a bastard child of actual Latin and google... the letter set used is English. or ( standard ) Generally when you see English in the comic its eather "Standard" or in rare cases actual English.. at various points you will get to see other languages :D
Being tied and threatened with death.
Covered in arterial blood spray.
Malati standing behind his captor covered in blood and smiling like a very happy cat.
(*FUCKIN' SCARY is what)
Oh, one more thing... Luv ya Mali, but you NEED a shower!!!
So. Awesome.
That look - priceless...
Wow, I like how you did the page - especially panel four :D
Good work, Mali!
PS: Maybe you should put a graphic warning on top of the page - for those faint hearted that might stumble upon this page...
Seems like a stupid thing to do, to kill someone who is right in the middle of "revealing all"...
Classy lady -- knows to look her best on an important day.
Chopping off the gun hand or at least controlling the gun before killing her would have been wiser. Or decapitating her. Or doing worse to her head (bullet into it). Anything but leaving her time to realize her throat is cut and do something nasty before she shuffles off the mortal coil.
So that's the actual language in the background there? (We never really see it spoken, since the comic's all in English.) Is it completely made up gibberish, or is it actually Roman/Greek/other language words?