Is that The Loveland Frogman?
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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So that man grabbed the sword from the blade and yanked it out of the mermaid's hand without her realizing? It doesn't add up.
He's wearing tough leather gloves
And he's also been clearly waiting in the middle of the lake for this to happen. Hell, he probably sent the monster.
Fish are slippery, so we can assume mermaids and their hands would be too.
Well that explains why their hand jobs are so good.
No thanks
Nat 20 dexterity
Well if she's swinging a sword through the water then she's already royaly fucked.
Am I the only one who wonders how Kermit got mutated?
Nobody's safe when Disney owns your IP.
Oooohhh burn!
the truth finally revealed
Your first mistake was using a swinging weapon in an environment where only thrusting weapons have any chance, your second was having such a poor grip that despite being able to breathe underwater and being a higher lifeform than man this dipshit was able to take the sword from you...
Which goes back to problem one, as you had no way to swing the sword with enough force to do anything to the fish
I don't know if we need to criticise her choice of weapon as much as his.
It's rocking a fucking flail underwater.
Spent all his evolution points on superfluous eyes that don't serve a purpose instead of points on intelligence.
What are bicep eyeballs supposed to do other than give you a massive case of motion sickness?
A comically oversized flail, that realistically would have drawn him down into the depths
Depends on it's buoyancy, though. Perhaps it's not metal?
It's got other tactical issues. The chain being too long and the handle being too short. Overall it's not going to do much as a weapon.
But that's not really the point
From the angle it looked like the plan was to let the force of the onrushing fish impale itself, rather than time a slash to coincide with its onslaught. As for choice of tools, perhaps it's the only sharp one available to her. As for grip, I don't know what is standard for mermaids or whatever she is. She may have just found that sword 5 minutes ago from a shipwreck, and had no time to practice.
Remember, the theme of the comic is that she's not some super-special "lady of the lake", and instead is more just a girl with a weapon in her hand, or at least she did for a brief moment! So her not being prepared seems to go hand in hand (so to speak) with that.
None of those details are likely to make it into King Arthur's (fishy) tales that he will tell all his friends about "how I became king, once upon a time...", especially as the tail (ah... see what I did there!?:-) grows with each retelling.
Thats some good art right there.
Good art makin'.
Great style! Nowadays it seems that all comics are either stick figure/Marvel/anime style.
I wish current comic illustrators would try to develop a style, and check out comics from non manga/Marvel origins. The Belgian Marcinelle school, or the ligne Claire schools are two great examples.
European comics provide an amazing range of styles, the study of which could be of great value to current illustrators.
She didn’t have a very good grip on it then.
Moist hands.
If I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
She learned a tragic lesson in why spears are the go-to weapon in undersea adventures.
That said, impressive strength on that mutant Kuo-Toa to swing a flailed morningstar underwater.
This scene would have been the perfect candidate for a perfect loop.
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