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Whiskey Bend Page 12
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Whiskey Bend Page 12

on December 17, 2011
Chapter: Book 3: Whiskey Bend
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  1. AsOfSpade
    AsOfSpade
    December 17, 2011, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    Horse killer!

    • My_Little_Annie
      My_Little_Annie
      December 19, 2011, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      Your name is spelled wrong.

      • AceOfSpade
        AceOfSpade
        December 30, 2011, 4:57 am | # | Reply

        Oh. As for Ace. Damn… Even google translation did better than me on this one.
        Thank you. I use this name on several webcomic and you are the only one that actually pointed out that I mispelled it.

  2. Zee
    Zee
    December 17, 2011, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Didn’t see that coming.

    • Squidbunny
      Squidbunny
      December 17, 2011, 7:56 am | # | Reply

      Gotcha!

      Actually this is such an awkward beat to have to wait a week to see the outcome of…. when I let someone read the book 3 script they hit this part and just went “Wait, what? Why would he…?” and stopped reading, demanding that I explain and I was all “Just read further, okay…?”

      • wr4ith0
        wr4ith0
        December 18, 2011, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

        …blood magic?

  3. Max Gladwell
    Max Gladwell
    December 17, 2011, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    something tells me this was only added because after it was implied he cared about diamonds people started questioning his evilness…

    • Squidbunny
      Squidbunny
      December 17, 2011, 7:52 am | # | Reply

      Haha!

      No, Next Town Over is fully written in its 13-chapter entirety (except for minor dialogue tweaks and whatnot as I go). People’s interpretations of goings-on are functionally out of my hands.

      • Lord Tirion
        Lord Tirion
        December 17, 2011, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

        please tell me that was on the site and you didn’t just spoil us the length of the story TT_TT

        • Squidbunny
          Squidbunny
          December 18, 2011, 7:41 am | # | Reply

          It might not have formerly been on the site; I’ve said it in interviews and whatnot previously, though.

          If knowing its ultimate length qualifies as a spoiler then I apologize!

          • Jon
            Jon
            December 21, 2011, 2:42 am | #

            I’m going to stop reading because of this spoiler!

          • dredogastus f
            dredogastus f
            March 5, 2013, 3:53 pm | #

            I don’t believe you for one second Jon.

    • Dogma
      Dogma
      December 17, 2011, 7:56 am | # | Reply

      Unless I’m forgetting something, he hasn’t done anything explicitly evil so far (killing the horse being the worst); even when he burned down the saloon it wasn’t out of malice so much as self-defense. He seems more amoral, or objective driven than evil at this point.

      • Squidbunny
        Squidbunny
        December 17, 2011, 7:57 am | # | Reply

        “Objective-driven” is a great way to put it.

        As an aside, man the avatar randomizer is fond of Jasper Jackson. What gives.

    • My_Little_Annie
      My_Little_Annie
      December 19, 2011, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

      I LOVE horses, and I still question Hunter’s evil-ness after this event. Hunter is wounded, running for his life, aboard a wild stallion that tried to kill him. This wasn’t a nice act, but he doesn’t have any “nice” options. Or in other words, “sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.”

  4. rinalicat
    rinalicat
    December 17, 2011, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    NOOO! NOT THE HORSEY!! WHHHHY?!

  5. Squidbunny
    Squidbunny
    December 17, 2011, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    Oh, man. Cementing my reputation for horse murder … and right after a shoutout in my friend’s horse blog. I seem to have lost inkOUTBREAK followers as of the posting of this page, too.

    I’m really a bleeding heart, guys, I swear. Though not as much as the outlaw stallion, amirite? … er.

    … Okay, but seriously, I’m mostly-vegetarian and I just signed this petition two seconds ago. Ask My Little Annie! She’s let me near her horses several times and none of them has been murdered.

    • Spex
      Spex
      December 17, 2011, 8:02 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, a bleeding horse heart. Because you stabbed it.

    • My_Little_Annie
      My_Little_Annie
      December 19, 2011, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      It’s totally true, Squidbunny couldn’t hurt a real horse even if you threatened to chop off her drawing fingers if she didn’t! In real life, she’s ridden my horses and never once been less than totally nice, even when the horse was acting like a dick.

      Thanks for the link Squidbunny!

  6. Gustavo Campanelli
    Gustavo Campanelli
    December 17, 2011, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    To me he has just admited that the flame he wields comes from inside others. That makes the sacrifice of a horse meaningfull, since otherwise he is loosing an asset. It maybe slower than the other horse, but he’s way slower than the black one.

    So, if the flame he wields comes from inside others, he’s evil.

    • The_Rippy_One
      The_Rippy_One
      December 17, 2011, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      I wouldn’t say that using dying people’s vitality is evil. It’s just a really ungainly tool. I certainly wouldn’t say that it’s an “Evil Power.” I am also opposed to the “Evil Powers, Evil People” trope.
      Now, causing people to die so you can use their vitality, on the other hand…yeah, he’s probably evil in a “I will survive at all costs” sort of way.

      • PantherScott
        PantherScott
        December 17, 2011, 6:28 pm | # | Reply

        I take it as he can use the natural body heat of someone to summon the fire anytime but killing someone gives him more fire to play with, like right now when he needs it most.

        • Shonkin
          Shonkin
          August 9, 2021, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

          In other words, he’s a necromancer. He uses murder to build up his power.

  7. Endegrimm
    Endegrimm
    December 17, 2011, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Hum. Killing the horse in this kind of situation seems pretty pointless at first glance so there h a s to be a damn good reason for his action. My first thought was “necromancy” but I think I’ll just wait and keep grining like an idiot …

  8. ABeth
    ABeth
    December 17, 2011, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    Well, if he did roughly the same thing to Hearts and Diamonds, then that might explain why Diamonds keeps answering his whistle and whatnot. And why Diamonds was able to be turned into a cyborg horse.

    (Also, I gotta go back and see how bleedy his hand was in the prior pages now…)

  9. Lydia
    Lydia
    December 17, 2011, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    What’s this? Did he draw his own blood before stabbing the horsey? What is this fella up to?

    • Ben
      Ben
      December 17, 2011, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, he was shot through the hand a couple pages back.

  10. ThreeDWannabe
    ThreeDWannabe
    December 17, 2011, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    Was he doing a sacrifice to gain power? Hence his “…but you got FIRE…” comment.

  11. Sulucamas
    Sulucamas
    December 17, 2011, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    8U This is INsane! And awesome. ( Did you say 13 chapters?? 😮 )

    Horse-bomb? 🙁

    • Squidbunny
      Squidbunny
      December 18, 2011, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Thank you, sir — and yes I did.

  12. trejsj
    trejsj
    December 18, 2011, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

    Reminds me of those old myths (mostly debunked?) about how Damascus steel used to be forged–annealing the new-made blade in some kind of living flesh. Ughhhh. Jeepers.

  13. Paul Rose
    Paul Rose
    December 19, 2011, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Nice comic. Can’t wait to read more.

    • Ben
      Ben
      December 19, 2011, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      Thank you very kindly! We’ll look forward to seeing you around. 🙂

  14. My_Little_Annie
    My_Little_Annie
    December 19, 2011, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, so we’ve had a black horse, a pale (grey) horse, a red(ish brown) horse… I’m totally waiting for the white horse, and the apocalypse!

    Rest in peace, Outlaw, knowing that you’re probably about to contribute to a major piece of character/plot development!

  15. Gillsing
    Gillsing
    December 20, 2011, 7:29 am | # | Reply

    I speculate that he might raise the horse as a Phoenix, sort of like Vane in the beginning. And that the horse will be faster when all it has left is its fire, with none of that cumbersome flesh.

  16. Johncleric
    Johncleric
    December 20, 2011, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

    Holy smokes!??! what a waste of a wild horse…But I guess since he has fire magic…I think I can think of several uses for a dead wild horse.

    • Johncleric
      Johncleric
      December 20, 2011, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      wait my avatar is the black smith from the last chapters ? cool!!

      • Squidbunny
        Squidbunny
        December 21, 2011, 7:41 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, if folks don’t have their own gravatars the site randomly assigns an NTO character. For some reason though it really favors Jasper…?

  17. Katie
    Katie
    December 23, 2011, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    I’ve been enjoying this comic so far in what I’ve read after finding it linked from another comic (can’t remember what one) recently. It’s fantastic and the art is amazing, Not a lot of the comics I read have art that’s this amazing or this detailed. It’s beautiful.

    • Squidbunny
      Squidbunny
      December 23, 2011, 8:02 am | # | Reply

      Very much obliged, Katie!

  18. marceline
    marceline
    December 23, 2011, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    this comic is ridiculously pretty
    anyways did you by any chance base some off of the movie silverado? markus reminded me of the little brother cowboy. i think his name was jake

    • Squidbunny
      Squidbunny
      December 23, 2011, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      Thank you kindly — and good eye! Mark and Lawrence (named after the Kasdan brothers) were visual homages to Silverado’s Jake and Emmet, which incidentally is what their mules are named (Mark’s mule, Jake, is a paint, too, like Jake’s horse in Silverado).

  19. Squiddy Attack
    Squiddy Attack
    December 23, 2011, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or do the horse’s ribs there exactly resemble Pi upside-down?

    Or is that not ribs…?

    • Ben
      Ben
      December 24, 2011, 7:25 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure I … see what you mean?

  20. Master Vega
    Master Vega
    December 24, 2011, 2:07 am | # | Reply

    Anyone considered chancy pragmatism? He’s already stolen Diamonds from her once. Perhaps he figures he can steal Diamonds again, and doesn’t want her following him on horseback?

    … Maybe?

  21. frandel
    frandel
    March 10, 2012, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    OMG I really hate that woman, is she gonna keep killing everybody but not he guys she wants to kill…

  22. Fjord
    Fjord
    October 13, 2012, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

    I’m starting to think this entire comic is about killing horses >.>

  23. Yuki
    Yuki
    January 7, 2013, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t see the page for some reason…

  24. Wm
    Wm
    February 9, 2013, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    I like the Firefly reference in the second panel.

  25. Shonkin
    Shonkin
    August 9, 2021, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

    “Sorry, bucko.” A headsman’s apology, and about as sincere.

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