497 | Disarm

497 | Disarm

October 11, 2010 | 12:45 am, by Pascalle Lepas

Oh, poop. Not again. In Reona’s defense, the last time she took a swing at Naveed, it went better for her.

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Comments

  • Nickolia

    And here I was hoping someone would knock the crap out of Naveed. Guess it's not going to be Reona.

    It's funny. That first landed punch is about when I first started reading ZAP!

  • fairportfan

    Huh. I seem to recall Reona's arm *stopping* Naveed's blade before, too.

    But why is Reona trying to deck her – is (well, “was” – even it it wasn't, it is now) her gun out of order? A quick blast to the back of the head would have been a simply wonderful idea.

    And how's she going to get it fixed?

  • Adam850

    Tsk. Reona sure has a hard time holding on to her arms.

  • Well, she'll just have to find our favorite Stickle, and get it repaired … and perhaps, upgraded?
    ;)

    Speaking of Stickle tech, this high-energy piece of Stickle tech has just suffered catastrophic damage. Catastrophically damaged Stickle tech, as I recall, has a remarkably high tendency to EXPLODE.
    Duck and cover, anyone?

    ;)

  • TalonofElysia

    I seem to remember Reona's arm being able to block that sword also. Hmm, either Naveed got stronger, or she just wasn't -trying- to slice that arm before. Neither of which seem very plausible to me.

    Also, Stickle Tech + Catastrophic Damage = Annihilation Event.

  • Or Naveed just got a sharper sword after their last encounter. Something with a monomolecular edge.

  • Kie

    The first thing that came to my head? Someone watched FMA :) Great work like always

  • Need a hand?

  • Ghalail

    In attempted clarification of the arm slice/blade deflection thing, I believe there is a marked difference between an attack being blocked and a directed attack as showcased here. Naveed is focusing all her power and sword skill into an actual attempt at severing Reona's arm as opposed to her slashing normally and Reona blocking which changes the dynamic of the meeting between blade and arm.

  • Sunphoenix_72

    Well either case…poor Renoa's gonna need a hand in dealing with Naveed.
    {Sorry… had to be said.}

  • MikeScatacchio

    I would've titled this strip as “AGAIN?!?!”

    Seems funnier to me somehow…

  • MikeScatacchio

    What Olivier shoulda done to keep Ed in line, no?

  • Good thing she didn't try for a headbutt.

  • Zepher

    someone needs to grab that arm and smack naveed upside the head with it xP

  • Day-um, Naveed never fails to impress me with her sword skills. :D

  • Naveed got a new sword after Zap destroyed her last one. This one is sharper. It was one of her new sword stipulations.

  • Tresk

    Hit the Deck!

  • Reona has said many times she's not comfortable shooting her arm when there's a chance her friends could be hit.

  • Delta57Dash

    Uhm… I think that the hand in the last panel is backwards… seems to be a left hand going flying.

    Unless it got spun around, and we're looking at the palm.

  • TalonofElysia

    Aha, Monomolecular blade huh… or Sharp as it needs to be, as the trope might put it.

  • Wingnut

    Nope. It happened again. That's the back of the hand there going flying.

  • Wow. That was shocking! Awesome page!

  • Guest

    The hand is backwards…

  • Charelyman

    … So when do the cat girl die?(been hopeing for that for quite some time now) :D

  • Thrudd

    That arm came off rather cleanly.
    Kitty supposedly knows the tech used for the arm, so does kitty have more live left to spend?
    Either our engineer put in some extra surprises or the call for “hit the deck” will be less then adequate.

  • Remember, Reona's arm cannon is powered by a power cell. If the power cell wasn't busted, the arm isn't going to explode.

    http://www.zapcomic.com/2003/12/20040721/

  • Dgeniu

    OH SNAP!! (and believe or not, no pun was intended)

  • SpringLoaded12

    That was Naveed's old sword I think, which was curved despite having the hilt of a broadsword, and was apparently made of tin foil given how she lost it XD

  • lol wut >.>

  • Abd Al-Azrad

    As usual Naveed is a munchkin's dream character who can magically detect all forms of attack coming her way, defend against any form of attack which doesn't surprise her, and has superhuman strength and speed.

    Just call her P for Plot Device.

  • Abd Al-Azrad

    Oh also she goes from standing face-to-face with the Captain to suddenly kneeling alone with a ten foot birth and swinging the sword in that ridiculously wide and overly dramatic arc that would have taken longer than that to swing. And given how she's swinging the blade, her power would be greatly diminished in the sword swing. It's honestly not really a plausible way to swing a sword, it's far too flashy and far too ineffective.

    Physics plox.

  • We call you P for party pooper.

  • This comment is amazing.

  • I should have called it 'Oh, poop. Not again.' It would have been a double-reference! boo on me.

  • her last swoard was kind of a bastardized broadsword. This one is more katana. Everyone knows that science says katana's are sharper than broadswords, ergo.

    *drops it like it's hot* :P

  • She wears her heart on her sleeve. She has a tendency to lose her arm.

  • TalonofElysia

    The catgirl planet just got glassed from orbit. Thanks Abd. Thanks a lot.

    -Now- where are we going to get our tentacle rape porn? :|

  • Abd Al-Azrad

    All I can say to this comment is… Ewww…

  • Gillsing

    Yes, ewww! Who'd ever want to mix catgirls with tentacles? Well, except for that one animated gif of Hello Kitty…

    As for surviving catgirls who weren't on their home planet, I think this might finish them off: In the panel with the sword, the swing seems to be almost parallel to the arm, but the actual cut seems to be at a 90 degree angle instead of say 210 degrees. Obviously Naveed must've held the sword upright during the swing, and then turned it down flat after the cut.Or is the arm already falling off in the third panel, and it was the arm that was held upright (like in the first panel) during the cut? If only I really cared. ;-)

  • Trigger

    Huh. Naveed is left handed? Or maybe ambidextrous? Never noticed this before.

    Also, she doesn't seem NEARLY as upset about her prize being blown up as she might ought to be. Perhaps she knows something we don't, or she still doesn't believe it?

  • Strike_Reyhi

    I gotta hand this one to you, lepas. I think Reona may have just lost her grasp on this situation. You might have some fans up in arms over this page. Given Stickle tech tends to explode maybe this will come in handy in later pages.

    I'm stumped as to what's going to happen next.

  • Hey, now, cut us some slack!
    When you hand us that many puns in one post, someone is likely to give you the finger!

    ;)

  • No, I agree with the Plot device statement. Getting kind of tired of Reona being useless and Naveed not being dead.

  • Reona used to be a waitress. She is not a badass, she's a regular person who got an arm cannon and she's still learning how to use it. She blasted a giant sea monster and saved Holly from the aquarians, but because she doesn't win ALL THE TIME like a badass, she is useless.

    Got it.

  • Jurinjo

    heh yes that's what I was thinking too Trigger. I wish updates were faster! But as long as they are consistent I'm pretty happy C:

  • Zoning-Out

    Arm is like waving

    “Bye bye I am finally free!!!”

    That was my stupid humor

    I love your comic!!
    I really like Naveed in panel 3

  • Actually you bring up a good point. Reona used to be a waitress, but since then she's been through a great deal, but she doesn't seem to be getting any better with any consistency. Whenever she's involved in a fight, there's really no telling how she's going to react. Sometimes it seems that she's learned from her experiences and taken a level in badass, and then just as abruptly she's back in the “can't do anything right” when the plot demands it.

  • People don't improve in a straight line. Reona's fighting usefulness to this point has been her reliance on her unreliable weapon.

    Maybe losing her arm means she'll have to actually rely on herself, hm?

  • Screw the rules, Naveed's sword is sharp enough to cut through physics. :D

  • Faded_Psychosis

    … all I'm saying on this one is that katanas aren't swords, they're very big knives…

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