V09 – Pg22
Akk, Woden, you got a little too close to our boy Die-Blood, who’s a close quarters kinda guy. The team are dropping like flies… and the World kinda needs every hero it can get!
*EDIT – I’ve amended this page to Woden saying ‘Ach, ma belly’ after some confusion if Woden hand suffered a hand or an abdominal injury. Would anyone ever say this? Probably not, but hey, it’s serves the purpose.
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I’ll be down at the London MCM Comic Expo this weekend, drawing for Reynard City. We’ll be at stand CR8 and CR9 there’s loads of free stuff to be had!
Last Wednesday evening, I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Jack and Dan over on the Intercomics Podcast. Wanna listen to me blather on like an idiot about Vanguard and webcomics/comics in general? Check this out!
Dan
MrHades
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Dammit Woden! Body armor, not robes!
Heh, or just stand a few feet back? But yeah, robes are a poor choice to wear into a fight.
Not so sure if body armour would be helping against those blades though. Probably not without getting too restrictive on your movement.
at this rate there wont be a vanguard in just a couple more pages. comic’s gonna need a new name.
They are falling thick and fast and the team roster will be very different from now on. That’s pretty much an understatement.
Damn,
at the rate members are dropping, we may need a whole new team soon! Even the ones who don’t die from their injuries, I suspect will not have much time to recover.
The team roster will be very different from the end of this issue…
That’ll leave a mark
A few stitches ‘ill sort it out
Bad move from Woden getting in that close and not being prepared for a counterattack.
Might come to his advantage though. Seeing as Die-Blood seems to ignore him after the initial slash. Probably believing he took him out for good.
Yet that wound looks nasty but not instantly deadly. Especially if Woden knows some healing mojo. Which would then end up with him below the radar of the enemy troops. Not the worst place to be.
Or of course he could actually be dying here. As was prophesied. And yet he’s probably the only one in the group where that would not necessarily mean the end of him, given the nature of his powers.
Yep, done with speculating now. (At least for the moment.)
Yup, that’s some great observations there! I won’t comment further – ’cause of spoilers and stuff!
So the ranged guy got pretty much killed because he went into melee with the superhumanly strong guy (who’s in the media enough that everybody should know he’s on Kingsword’s level).
Then the TK girl decided that instead of doing anything else she was going to try to hold the super strong guy in place while he walked over to her and murdered her. Instead of… running? Dropping things at him? Hurling him randomly in different directions so he couldn’t just dig his heels in?
Okay, so the Mind Control girl mind controls a guy and then… stands out in the open undefended with no cover.
And the Druid goes down because he decided to close in on the melee guy… while attacking him with birds from a distance.
He had no reason to close in on the guy.
Honestly the team is dropping like flies because they seem to be idiots.
Yeah, I guess it went down so fast/quickly that people were making rash decisions. Godiva was in cover while using her mind control on Die-Blood, but was picked of from a vantage point by X-Bow. With Ophelia and Max, she just reacted and pushed him off of KingSword, trying her best to pin him. If she’d have let up, MaX would have been on her in moments.
But, yes, they could have handled things better, but hey, they’re only (super)humans.
He is against a tree and he is a druid, use the trees lifeforce to heal himself
He must Be The Leaf!
It’s all about be-leaf-ing in him 🙂
Landing against that tree was no coincidence…
Remember… Woden’s powers are based in belief! So everyone clap your hands and say, I do believe in fairies!
Ha ha! Ok, everyone, on the count of three 1-2-3- ‘I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!’
Is that a stomach wound, or a hand wound?
It was supposed to be an abdominal wound, but upon reflection (and the outstretched hand in panel one), it reads as an injury to Woden’s hand. Going to have to try and work out how to fix that… Maybe a ‘Ach, ma belly!’ or something.
if die-bloods spikes are superheated shouldn’t the wounds get cauterized?
Yeah, they would. I figured Gradlon’s accelerated healing would fix it as they were withdrawn.
i meant woden.
Ah yeah, true. You got me there!
“…get in it!”