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Redridge Express Page 18
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Redridge Express Page 18

on May 18, 2014
Chapter: Book 6: The Redridge Express
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  1. the cj
    the cj
    May 18, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    shit just got real O.o
    That blood splatter–man, this page is epic

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, cj!

  2. Tie Toter
    Tie Toter
    May 18, 2014, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Ooookaaaay…

    Wasn’t expecting that…

    It is gonna be a LONG week waiting for the next update!

    Thank’s Erin. You keep the suspense at a killingly high level!

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      Thanks so much, Tie.

  3. Jordan
    Jordan
    May 18, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    I’ll believe he’s dead when I can see his corpse with my own two eyes. Then I’d prefer to see it cremated so he can’t resurrect himself or something. Just in case.

    • Luris
      Luris
      May 18, 2014, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      Not sure that cremating would be the right solution for him 🙂

      • Jordan
        Jordan
        May 18, 2014, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

        True, that would probably just help him.

      • wingsofwrath
        wingsofwrath
        May 20, 2014, 2:52 am | # | Reply

        Like I was suggesting a few pages earlier, cut his head off, stuff it full of garlic and bury him at a crossroads with a silver tipped stake through his heart. And even then, there’s a 30% chance he’ll come back…

        • AceOfSPade
          AceOfSPade
          May 24, 2014, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

          I suggest drowing him and keeping the corpse in a wartertight casket filled with… well… water… Thought water can be burned if you know how to (water is oxygen + hydrogen so in fact it make great fuel for a fire… eh, one of my character once made a fireball from his spit because he had both hand bound so he couldn’t point were it was going and it was the most flamable thing around)… so maybe something else than water… concrete?

          • Phasma Felis
            Phasma Felis
            August 6, 2014, 1:59 am | #

            Small problem there–concrete is made out of cement powder and…water.

  4. Bex
    Bex
    May 18, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    God, Hunter… if you didn’t want her to shoot you, you shouldn’t have thrown her off of a train.

    • vanquishedValiant
      vanquishedValiant
      May 18, 2014, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      Judging by her face in that last panel… I wonder if she even intended to shoot him at all…. Or at least is having second thoughts about it.

      But it almost looks to me like she’s staring incredulously at her weapon. Like it went off without her approval?

      • Bex
        Bex
        May 20, 2014, 12:21 am | # | Reply

        In addition, she’s looking for him after he falls– hoping he survived, or simply confirming a kill? I agree that she seems to be looking at her weapon in surprise/disbelief, but she probably pulled the trigger without thinking. I mean, look how much her eyes are glowing when she comes back at him from her fall. When she shoots him, the glow goes out. That’s probably significant.

        • wr4ith0
          wr4ith0
          May 21, 2014, 8:43 am | # | Reply

          she seems… conflicted about this turn of events. I’m not sure she actually shot him. Though this might explain just why the chase has been going so long, if she doesn’t actually want to kill him.

  5. Scholar of Fortune
    Scholar of Fortune
    May 18, 2014, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    “Do not count human being dead until you seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”
    -Bene Gesserit saying (Frank Herbert, Dune)

    • Talewinds
      Talewinds
      May 18, 2014, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

      That should a cautionary posted at the beginning of every episode of every soap opera.

  6. order99
    order99
    May 18, 2014, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Hmm…

    Vane points gun towards Hunter’s torso, and he gets shot in the neck?

    Vane’s gun does not appear to be smoking?

    The gun is supposedly loaded with Vane’s ‘Wizard-killers’, but the wound seems to be a normal, if messy, neck shot?

    This train has one or more armed men aboard.

    Conclusion-Vane’s gun, loaded with ‘flesh-asplode’, didn’t go off at all. I suspect that some folk are rapidly getting sick of the’ Hunter and Black Ignore the Fragile Civilians Tour’ and are going to see about putting a stop to this private little war…

    • Dchil
      Dchil
      May 18, 2014, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      Exploding rounds are in the pistol with the brass receiver.

    • ReaverZ
      ReaverZ
      May 19, 2014, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      There is smoke, look closer.

    • Lleyn
      Lleyn
      May 19, 2014, 4:38 am | # | Reply

      It’s not clear that he’s been shot in the neck. As we only see his back, and Vane’s rather close to him, the blood could very well have splattered upwards. If someone else took the shot at him, he would’ve needed to be located somewhere behind her or to the side of her, and then she surely would have turned around to locate the shooter, not have looked to the side of the train where Hunter disappeared.

      • Dchil
        Dchil
        May 23, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

        Not necessarily. If she didn’t hear the shot but only the crack then it would be very hard to locate the shooter.

  7. jsfury
    jsfury
    May 18, 2014, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. This is a beautifully done page Erin as always. The action is uber incredible. Really young lady, this needs to be fully animated. Please, find an agent.

    An observation. Vane’s determination to put an end to John Henry is nothing sort of monumental. The fire eyed, and hair little vixen seems unstoppable. her grace of movement, even with all that equipment on, and the way you draw it is, well breath taking.

    How the hell did she get the grapple gun out so fast after the “PTONK” on the side of her head???

    Hunter’s arrogance and cockiness are his down fall, seemingly. And in my gut I knew it would eventually catch up with him. At least at this juncture. Is he, in deed, really dead? Hmm.

    In panel seven where Vane is looking at her gun, smoke still rolling from the barrel, the look on her face is so amazing. To me it’s saying, “Wow, did I finally do it? Did I just shot that son of a bitch?” Erin, your talent in capturing human emotion is award winning in my humble opinion.

    There also seems to be a strange calmness in Vane’s eyes. Like life is coming back again. This has been an amazing chapter to read and view. Bravo Erin. Molti bravo!

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      Thanks so much for all your thoughts and kind words, js!

      Looking at all the comments, I’d say you’re closest to my intended read on the 7th panel. 🙂

    • ReaverZ
      ReaverZ
      May 19, 2014, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      She seemed confused and a little upset to me, more what happened? I am wondering if when her eyes are glowing if she is in control of her body.

      • wingsofwrath
        wingsofwrath
        May 20, 2014, 2:56 am | # | Reply

        That’s my read on her expression also, that she’s thinking to herself “It was too easy, this is not over yet”. That’s experience talking right there…

  8. Archimedes
    Archimedes
    May 18, 2014, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    JJH: Hubris much?
    That page is excellently drawn.

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, Archimedes. 🙂

  9. Mustachio
    Mustachio
    May 18, 2014, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    Love love love that last close-up on Vane.

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Much obliged, Mustachio.

  10. Souvraya
    Souvraya
    May 18, 2014, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm… Her eyes have been glowing up to that second to last frame… Now they don’t, and she seems confused/is staring incredulously at her gun. Hmm…

  11. Torn
    Torn
    May 18, 2014, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

    Um, why is the damage to his glove (and his hand) from her shot earlier missing now?

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know what you’re talking about.

      (Like most pages I drew this tired, at the last second, and plain flubbed my continuity. Fixed now, though, and thanks for the catch.)

  12. Melynda
    Melynda
    May 18, 2014, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

    Sure, it’s all fun and games untill someone gets hurled off a train, leaps back in and then shoots someone.

  13. Shadow-Mimi
    Shadow-Mimi
    May 18, 2014, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    NOEEES! Not Hunter! DD=
    That poor little bastard ;__;

  14. That Guy
    That Guy
    May 19, 2014, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    Did she finally stop loading plot bullets and end this?

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      May 19, 2014, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t count on it Guy.

  15. XMinusOne
    XMinusOne
    May 19, 2014, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

    In Panel 5. Devlin’s throwing himself backward and that’s why he’s shot in the neck and not the gut. He knew what was coming and tried to minimize the damage.

    In Panels 6 and 7, Vane appears to be coming out of a trance or a possession and is amazed she shot Devlin. Maybe her guns are cursed.

    In Panel 8, what’s the red stuff on the cliff wall by the engine? It can’t be Devlins blood.

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 19, 2014, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

      … D-Devlin?

      • jsfury
        jsfury
        May 19, 2014, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

        No Erin, don’t try to analyze. Just keep drawing and writing. And get some rest mother, okay.

  16. jsfury
    jsfury
    May 19, 2014, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

    Far be it for me to second guess Erin’s work and plots, but there seems to be a lot of that going on here in the comments section. Especially regarding where Vane Black shot John Henry Hunter. The current consensus is she shot him in the neck. And indeed, while it looks that way, I don’t thing she did.

    In panel four note the placement of Vane’s gun. It is virtually point blank to John Henry’s chest. As he leans in to try his charm once more, and starts up with the monologue again, Vane simply fires her weapon.

    Now knowing how much you like westerns Erin, you no doubt took in a few Sam Peckinpah movies. Sam had a thing about blood spatter, and with out fail it was always going the wrong way of a bullet wound.

    So if I may make my humble observation. Vane shot John Henry point blank in the chest. The blood spatter is for shock value. That’s all. If our wonderfully creative artist did the actual bullet wound, you’d see an exit hole the size tea cup saucer coming out his back. That’s why he did NOT get shot in the neck. Okay, I’ll shut up now.

  17. Mustachio
    Mustachio
    May 20, 2014, 7:39 am | # | Reply

    It’s understandable to think “neck”, because the neck is where we see the blood. But a gunshot to the chest, if sufficiently bloody, would send blood spatter in the same direction/location because of the viewer perspective. The blood is coming up from the chest, spraying upward. And because both the train and Hunter’s body are in motion, the moving blood spatter is going up and over his shoulder, toward the viewer.

    Something I didn’t notice at first, but Hunter has fallen off the train, as evidenced by the curving path of the train on the tracks, and by Vane’s appearing to be looking for Hunter in the last panel.

  18. Dan Bowman
    Dan Bowman
    May 20, 2014, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    Simply epic…

    • Ben
      Ben
      May 20, 2014, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks so much, Dan! Always appreciated.

  19. BadDesperado
    BadDesperado
    May 24, 2014, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

    Umm… Just realized this after reading it again. But where is the “krack” coming from? I don’t think that the gun could keep that kind of noise…

  20. Hex
    Hex
    August 24, 2014, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    Looks like she’s superseded the gone went off in the 7th panel

  21. Hex
    Hex
    August 24, 2014, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    I meant surprised

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