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Golden Son Page 2
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Golden Son Page 2

on August 9, 2015
Chapter: Poor Wayfaring Strangers: Golden Son
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  1. Karyl
    Karyl
    August 9, 2015, 7:37 am | # | Reply

    i spy, he spies, we all spy something VERY suspicious here, it would seem. 🙂

  2. ScholarOfFortune
    ScholarOfFortune
    August 9, 2015, 8:21 am | # | Reply

    A) Mr. Norris is a cheeky little twit.

    B) That’s a really old lieutenant.

    C) Do I see a hint of family resemblance between the two leaders?

  3. Rhee
    Rhee
    August 9, 2015, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    Ehehehe I’m suspecting that one if these is the carefree big brother and the other is the uptight younger brother and it’s going to be this delightful awkward lets-shoot-eachother-then-feel-bad-about-it-later family reunions. I love those

  4. jsfury
    jsfury
    August 9, 2015, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm, the lieutenant bares a striking resemblance to Richard Boone (Paladin). Damn Erin, you do love your westerns.

  5. Piripero
    Piripero
    August 9, 2015, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    Awesome. The “fighting back east”. Can’t mistake the blue sleeves and red cuffs of the Imperials – so the folks in the woods must be Republicans?

    Also I must say I’m really appreciating the art already in Golden Son. Everything feels so real, and there’s so much detail that the deeper I look the more I see – like the different ranks on the Imperials’ collars. I also love that the Republicans (if that’s who they are) don’t have a uniform per se… but it’s still clear from their dress that they’re part of a side. I imagine walking into a town they’d be picked out as surely as if it *were* a uniform.

  6. Emanon
    Emanon
    August 9, 2015, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve never ever really understood the “Line up neatly in rows in plain view to get shot like idjuts” era of warfare. I just kept wondering if there wasn’t one guy with better than room temperature IQ who was going “this is really, really dumb – I’m hiding behind a tree or rock.”

    Carry on!

    • ScholarOfFortune
      ScholarOfFortune
      August 10, 2015, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      Emanon – the need for infantry to line up in long lines was because the equipment and training of the time favored “massed fire” followed by a bayonet charge over today’s marksmanship. Before and in the early parts of the Civil War most troops were issued muskets, which resembled rifles but did not have ‘rifling’, the grooves cut into the barrel that puts the spin on a bullet that allows it to travel in a straight line. Rifling requires a tight fitting bullet and a high degree of engineering; in addition the soldier shooting the rifle required much more extensive training. Muskets were smooth bored, and made to fire quickly. To facilitate this musket balls were generally smaller than the barrel. This allowed the musket to be loaded faster and reduced the danger of the barrel being fouled by the black powder used as the accelerant. (Watch a Civil War reenactment. All that smoke clogs the rifle barrel too.) Civil War marksmanship focused on how quickly recruits could fire; maintaining proper marching order and close combat were considered muck more important.

  7. l33tninja
    l33tninja
    August 10, 2015, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    Panel 5 caption: “Oooh, I hate that guy”

  8. SquallLion
    SquallLion
    August 10, 2015, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    the gag with the hand (hi!) 😀

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