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The Tumbling JHH page 35
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The Tumbling JHH page 35

on March 22, 2023 and modified on March 24, 2023.
Chapter: Book 13: The Tumbling JHH
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  1. Amanda/OwlBear
    Amanda/OwlBear
    March 22, 2023, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

    well those look like a lot of lethal gunshot wounds

    • DrunkenNunStumbles
      DrunkenNunStumbles
      March 23, 2023, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

      Shot through the leg *might* be survivable. She got a tourniquet on very quickly, and given some of the weird ass surgery she’s done like turning her horse into a steam punk cyborg I could believe she might survive it.

      That one through her torso? Yeah, that’s right through the liver, renal aorta, spleen, the works. That’s way worse than catching it front on because all of the organs it passes through (not that’s great either.) That’s 100% lethal, she will need a literal miracle or some sort of supernatural assistance to survive this one.

  2. JD
    JD
    March 22, 2023, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    Oh geeze…

  3. JefLebowski
    JefLebowski
    March 22, 2023, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

    Well, Bolivian army ending is kind of a classic for western?
    Though I believe two people and a horse are incoming.

  4. JuaSaysHi
    JuaSaysHi
    March 22, 2023, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

    Alas, o ignominious fate

  5. gyffes
    gyffes
    March 22, 2023, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

    Dear Ben,

    Don’t have a lot to say other than “Good Heavens I love your art!” and that I really just wanted to use your name.

    Signed, Longtime appreciator of your work.

  6. Honzinator
    Honzinator
    March 23, 2023, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

    The detective gave her a double pneumothorax … in hindsight it’s obvious he should have simply walked around the corner and kept on waling out of sight. Our anti-heroine is clearly dead again, but didn’t know it yet.
    I wonder if her reanimating demon will inhabit someone else now?

  7. Shonkin
    Shonkin
    March 24, 2023, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

    The first panel shows a light brown glove grasping at dry grass. That would be Mark. (The Inspector’s gloves are much darker.) Mark may get in one last shot. Flint was knocked over by the concussion, but he’s still in the game, unless he just walks away. Amaranth may approach close enough to take Vane’s air away and suffocate her — but she’s a goner anyway.
    Stone Hears Nothing and Cyclonedance are coming aboard Eagle’s Eyes, but they owe her nothing. For their separate reasons they’re looking for Coyote/JHH.
    Meanwhile I think Jasper is around somewhere; we never saw him die or run off.
    The end is near anyway!

    • jeflebowski
      jeflebowski
      March 25, 2023, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      I think that’s less grasping and more “lying on the floor, weapon konlonger in hand”
      My my guess, Mark’s dead.

      • Manabi
        Manabi
        March 27, 2023, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        Mark’s definitely dead, largely turned into a pinkish mist when Diamonds had a RUD event. (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.) That hand may be all that’s left of him in solid form. Ironically his rifle may have prevented his hand from disintegrating.

  8. Brent O'Gara
    Brent O'Gara
    March 27, 2023, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    Oh dear… that’s a nasty hit. Hell of a shot to take right though the torso, I do hope Missus Hunter has a Deus Ex Machina up her rolled-up sleeves… 😮

  9. wingsofwrath
    wingsofwrath
    March 27, 2023, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

    Welp, that don’t look good.
    At this point there’s a morbid fascination to see wherever any of the characters will survive. Lord (coyote) only knows none of them are nice people, but it’s still kind of a bummer to see them slaughter each other witch such reckless abandon, even though we knew this was coming for a good while now (roughly from page one of the first volume).
    Of course, there is also the magic JHH did on the last page of “Short End”, and who knows what that one does…

    • Manabi
      Manabi
      March 27, 2023, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

      That magic is likely what he used to pull the demon out of Vane to have a chat with Coyote on page six of The Tumbling JHH.

    • Zach
      Zach
      March 28, 2023, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      Miss Black was a nice lady. The father of the boy she killed was a good man. Amaranth hasn’t done anything immoral that I know of, and may be an ally to the reanimated woman because she’s a curiosity. Mark’s only sin was being a soldier, and his brother, too. Their livelihoods were stolen from them by serial killers.

      JHH is the only monster I see, besides that man in spectacles.

      • wingsofwrath
        wingsofwrath
        April 3, 2023, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

        While I agree that JHH is pretty much the most monstrous of the lot at this juncture, I stand by my assertion the others are not especially nice – nice people do not go in for bounty hunting and/or revenge…

        When it comes for Professor Crawford, sure, he hasn’t done anything immoral yet and that we know of, but also there must be a reason he’s here and I bet it’s not due to an overwhelming urge towards charity and goodwill towards man.

        Finally, Miss Black absolutely was not a nice lady in life either. Nice ladies do not operate on their significant others against their wishes nor engage in unethical experiments…

        • wilddeath
          wilddeath
          April 15, 2023, 8:10 am | # | Reply

          We have met entirely different nice ladies in our lives. I for one greatly enjoy the mechanical augmentations that were forced upon me as I lay face down on an operating table needing to scream but being too paralyzed to do so. It’s either that or a slow descent into insanity as my cyborg ass slowly kills all humanity…

  10. slinky
    slinky
    March 31, 2023, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

    last frame is just a good stand alone picture of a myriad of emotions! could be a great avatar or somethin’

  11. BØmar
    BØmar
    March 31, 2023, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    OK! I’ missed a Beat Here! Why is No One Commenting on the Inspector’s Wound? I notice a few Things:

    o His Weapon makes a “POP-ing” Sound [more like High Pressure Steam than a Chemical Explosion.]

    o His Damaged ….. Undercarriage made the Identical “SssPLODE” Sound as Diamond’s Ruptured BOILER.

    o It was not Vane’s Ammo that Exploded, Her First Shot Grazed His Shoulder, and Zipped by without Detonating.

    o The Inspector’s Innards are GLOWING with Something, that is the Worng Color for Cherenkov Radiation, but may
    be This World.s Analog.

    Taken Together, The Inspector may be Another of Vane’s Lab Rats, or a Spark, on her Level, and not a Poser, who is too
    Heavily Dressed for This Abominable Heat.

    • Shonkin
      Shonkin
      April 4, 2023, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

      Abominable heat? There’s still a little snow left on the ground. (See Tumbling JHH page 3.)

      • BØmar
        BØmar
        April 7, 2023, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

        Um …. Short End took place entirely in the Desert, so there’s no way to tell from that. All of The Tumbling JHH, the White is in the Sky! It looks, to me, like Morning Mist. I could be Wrong. I’m as Likely to loose track of the Season, as I am to think Everyone in this Story is Overdressed. I’m still curious about what the Inspector’s Regalia are Concealing.

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      April 12, 2023, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      Great analysis, but that place looks kind of cold. The clothing and vegetation are clues.
      Not all semi-deserts and deserts are in South Texas (welcome to Manitoba! … or North Dakota’s Badlands or China’s Flaming Mountains!), and even Texas can get chilly.

  12. Shonkin
    Shonkin
    April 2, 2023, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Dayum! If DeFoix had had a double-action revolver it would have been all over, and he’d still have two good legs. As it is, Vane got off two shots with her automatic while he was busy cocking his piece.

  13. Huuma
    Huuma
    April 8, 2023, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

    Too bad she didn’t get to enjoy her new life for long.

    The art such a treat.

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