The Tumbling JHH page 36
In script form it was not at all weird that Vane just resumes talking to Crawford here but read months apart as I’ve posted it it’s just incredibly janky.
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In script form it was not at all weird that Vane just resumes talking to Crawford here but read months apart as I’ve posted it it’s just incredibly janky.
Oh, Vane is sliding. And the last Hunter still draws breath.
Marvellous work as always Ben!
Vane can diagnose her injuries with precision, yet she’s prioritizing talking. This is grim and engrossing.
I feel so bad for the poor Pinkerton and perhaps therefore fail to understand the motive of our black-clad sharpshooter … at least in Grosse Pointe Blank I understood the guy.
I think he at the very least respected Vane and he made it quite clear he was only part of the entire thing cause his boss took him along. While it’s a strange point to make morally it’s most likely been a thing of pragmatism for him. He was being paid to go along with no actual interest in the bounty (he most likely would’ve gotten only a small part of it anyway), so he went along. Now his boss is dead, so is his paycheck and the situation changed from „it’s a job, nothing personal“ to „it’s nothing personal, but I kinda respect the lady.“
So him shooting the Pinkerton is just a last sign of respect for Vane, before he leaves and washes his hands of the entire affaire.
Plus it’s not deserting if the one remaining lawman is dead.
Correct me if I am wrong (like I normally am) but if memory serves the late pinkerton was a less than good person and quite teh piece of work. But I could be misremembering things.
Well, he was a *Pinkerton*. Given that they seem to be the same Pinkertons as we got in RL he is most likely the closest thing to a corporate mercenary someone can possibly be.
When he was introduced he even straight up admitted that he was there cause some rich schmuck (aka his employer) ordered him to hunt down Vane and Hunter – most likely cause of the entire deal with the train a couple chapters back.
As Gouhl says, inspecter DeFoix being a Pinkerton implies he’s a really horrible person. Even today Pinkertons are less law officers and more mercenaries. But as far as in the comic itself, we haven’t seem him do anything besides introducing himself and saying all the others were persons of interest for his employer.
They’re not law officers *at all*. They’re just corporate thugs, full stop. So yeah, safe to assume few people had any real respect for the guy
She has diagnosed her injuries and knows she’s dying. Now she’s hoping Amaranth Crawford might be able to save her and might possibly be willing to, especially if he has his grimoire back. At this point, though, he’d rather have the reward money (and his revenge).
I tried to go back and count the bodies. Jasper’s still unaccounted for, isn’t he? And I’d forgotten that Stone Hears Nothing and Cyclonedance are still en route. I’m glad Flint out got though. Had to go back and do a reread, but yeah, Flint was definitely the smart one. I wonder how much he’s pieced together of what’s really going on. (Still not over poor Diamonds though. ☹☹☹)
There were 13 gunslingers at the beginning of the chapter.
Diamonds killed two of the old timers (Jasper and the other old guy)
JHH blasted the old veteran then summoned the undead herd.
The herd stomped the two maimed prostitutes and Laurence.
They chased away Ms.Dautrieve and JHH let her live because he was fond of her aunt.
Vane shot Sister Sledge, Lee VanCleef and blew up Mark by shooting Diamonds.
Flint shot the Pinkerton and walked off into the sunset (this is the way).
Amaranth is now the last vigilante (as well as the last airbender). Vane is out of bullets for him, but the Suntouched duo should be able to take him on.
I can’t wait to see how this ends!!!
There were 14 to start though, not 13. Diamonds got Eli (Flint’s coworker) and Fairfax (Emma’s father from Diamondback Ridge), not Jasper (the blacksmith whose fingers Vane shot off that joined Marcus and Lawrence in Sun Prairie). I think he started the ambush off with Faraday, Marcus, Lawrence, and Flint (you can see the back of his head on page 4). He wasn’t with Faraday on 17 or with Flint and the brothers after that. I would also guess, being a blacksmith, he probably didn’t hang back with the sharpshooters. So he probably moved up when Faraday did but peeled off before Faraday met up with the Pinkerton.
You’re right. Jasper is still unaccounted for.
Jasper’s probably not a major threat, since Vane crippled his hand so badly.
It really was a shame seeing Fairfax join up and dying. Hunter gave him a chance to avoid Fairfax’s wife becoming a widow in addition to losing her daughter, but the fool ended up getting himself killed anyway.
Good ole’ Flint, he knows which side of the bread is un-buttered… BOTH sides are dry as a bone, and he’s not fool enough to take a bite of that! I do like that he kills the Pinkerton before he walks off into the sunset, that man gave even the worst criminals the creeping Williamses.
I can’t wait to see what’s next… but wait we shall! <3
The Inspector is, thanks to Flint, no longer a “Person of Interest.” Right before Flint shot Him, a well placed shot, by Vane, resulted in a Shower of Purple Electrical Sparks, and the exact same “Sssplode-ing” sound of a Distressed Boiler that Diamonds made!
In that moment, He was revealed to Vane AND to Flint, as Not to be, Entirely HUMAN! The Deep Cord, in the Vibe I get From Flint is:
“What IS This! This isn’t What I signed up for. It’s Not a Hunt! It’s Murder! of ONE Damned Infernal Engine by ANOTHER!”
I believe the purple sparks are the color of a flame of burning potassium.
Going back 11 years or so, Vane was ostensibly making potash lye. Now potassium hydroxide (“caustic potash”) gets a little hot and dissolves when mixed with water, but it doesn’t S-S-Splode. However, potassium metal does catch fire and, in gram quantities, explode when it touches water. (That was slightly bad chemistry in the strip, because you can’t make potassium metal using water! Anyone who had high-school chemistry knows that.)
No, Inspector DeFoix is human. He is an employee of a private detective agency who was after the people who wrecked a train and killed an undetermined number of RR crew and passengers. He may not be a nice person, but he’s not doing evil by tracking down JHH and Vane, both of whom are murderers.
Point Taken! It’s a little Late in the Story to introduce Another Big Bad Steam-Punk Cyborg Engineer. It IS a tempting Sequel Segway…. But that would require Either Hunter or Vain Surviving, and is Entirely TOO Rambo XXVII !!
it does, put Flint’s Actions in a Different light.
I found this comic a couple days ago from an almost decade old comment left on another, unrelated comic, and boy am I glad to see this one’s still going!
Looks like we’re up to the part in the western where everyone dies, neat. Can’t say they didn’t deserve it.
If you’re bothered by the jankitude of the final panels where the professor’s conversation with Vane resumes, then the final panel could be flipped with Vane off screen and a close-up of the professor answering while hiding against some cover.
I love it all either way.