10/06/2013
Careful there, Jemini. The Miscreants may be squabbling butt-heads, but they’re still armed, violent, amoral butt-heads! How will she work her way out of this one?
Careful there, Jemini. The Miscreants may be squabbling butt-heads, but they’re still armed, violent, amoral butt-heads! How will she work her way out of this one?
Two cool heads are better than three hot ones, I say!
And come to think of it, how do the pilot and co-pilot fit in all this? Shouldn’t they be trying to discreetely get back to earth by this point?
Ohh, the Miscreants are ‘hot-heads’, you mean! Gotcha. For a second I thought you meant ‘hot’ in the other sense, and that would be…well, kinda weird!
Never mind.
I’m guessing the pilot is busy doing his/her job (and if there’s a co-pilot, s/he’s doing the same); they’re probably not paying too much attention to the idiots yelling in the back.
Cockpits now are now sealed from the rest of the plane in most planes because of the various hijackings in the last couple decades. So the pilots could have a chainsaw massacre back there and honestly unless someone hit the intercom, nobody in the cockpit would notice. Besides, half of them are asleep through the bulk of the flight, they’ve recently found. Oh, autopilot.
Nothing is shocking. If there’s a way for people to slack off on the job and have no one disturb them, they’ll find a way!
Yes, I was afraid the “hot” phrase would be confusing, but I am lazy and posted the comment as it was anyway, because I can be slacking even on THAT simple job!
Hey, don’t sweat it! There may be a lot of women who find the Miscreants hot (and men, too…so look out, Homophobe). They ARE musicians, after all, and musicians always seem to attract tons of groupies (even awful musicians, who look awful, act awful, and do awful things).
Hmm. Where there is chaos, there is opportunity.
A credo which has served crooked governments worldwide for ages now.
Jemmy can use this to her advantage by subtly pitting them further against each other until Homophobe give her a chance to grab his gun during the ensuing fistfight. I’m wondering who hired these nitwits to kidnap her in the first place? They must not have asked for references.
Tonio asked Noah Sevradu to provide him with expendable assassins (and these guys are asses AND assassins), so I’d say he got his money’s worth.
What is Jemini plotting in those two devious minds of hers? We’ll find out this week!
Even scumbags have quality standards. And, shockingly, resumes. It’s called ‘Street Cred’, and if you don’t want screw-ups you’d better check into it. You want cannon fodder? You get these guys, or worse.
Now I’m just imagining what the Miscreants individual resumes would look like. Bad resumes are always hilarious (unless, of course, they’re your own).
Wooly has some of the best dialogue in any comic on the internet. There’s just something wonderful about well written, nearly illegible pseudo-English.
He’s the single hardest character to write (yeah, even harder than Dadaman or Inverto), since it requires my searching as many Australian slang language sites as I can find and try to form something of a coherent statement out of the various bits.
Meanwhile, I’m sure any actual Australians reading this comic are wondering what the hell he’s supposed to be saying!
Could be worse, I guess. Could be a Scottish guy, speaking Doric – even most other Scots can’t understand that dialect, and it’s got no slang at all.
I considered after the fact that Wooly Rhinoceros might have worked better if I had made him Scottish or Irish instead of Australian. Not sure why (maybe because actual wooly rhinoceri lived in cold climates…does that work?).
He makes me think of that scene in Austin Powers: Goldmember where Mike Myers and Michael Caine start talking in “‘English’ English” in order to avoid eavesdropping.
That was a good scene. Then again, doesn’t Michael Caine talk like that ALL the time?
I love it when a plan falls apart
Unless it’s a pension plan. That’s just plain not good (especially for the Miscreants…they’ll need help if they ever live to see old age).
So, word to the wise, don’t fire guns in planes. It’s bad. For the uncertain, punching a hole in the cabin causes decompression. This is bad, it drops the temperature rapidly, makes it hard to breathe because of the moving air, and most importantly it seriously screws the handling of the plane. Plus if something then covers the hole after the plane has already partially decompressed, there are examples of the plane actually losing whole sections due to pressure variance.
That’s worst case scenario. Best case scenario either the bullet doesn’t penetrate (not going to lie, a pistol like that doesn’t run TOO many risks, but there’s always a chance). Or the cabin becomes windy. Another perk of the pilots being separate from the rest of the plane, it doesn’t affect the guys flying.
I’ve actually been issued special handgun rounds whenever I fly in case I gotta shoot someone on a plane. 2 types: one fires basically a spread of low velocity pellets (like a shotgun shell in a bullet) and one is low velocity and shatters into pieces on impact with anything solid. There are also various nonlethal rounds that have extremely low chances of causing damage by spreading the impact over a huge area (gel and pancake rounds, bean bag rounds, etc). Or of course there’s the taser. Or a knife, or fisticuffs. You have options. So DON’T SHOOT ON A PLANE!
Oh yes, and firing a pistol in an enclosed, echoing location (like a tiny plane) without ear protection HURTS. Trust me.
I swear, I will never get tired of Lady Jenn’s encyclopoedic knowledge of all things violent. Seriously, start your own webcomic about the trials and tribulations of being a professional ass-kicker!
An airplane is just a bad environment for a hostile situation like this one (and lots of other types of hostile situations that I could mention but wont for fear of the FBI monitoring this site…and if they are, thanks for reading and buy some SCAPULA books!). Jemini not only has to keep the Miscreants from killing her intentionally but also keep them from wrecking the whole damned plane!
I swear if I could draw I would hun. Well, if I could draw and wasn’t always y’know, on shift or in the hospital……..
A plane is what I think of as a ‘no win’ zone with a gun. At best, people survive. There’s no other outcome that doesn’t involve serious injury and death. Calm negotiation and psychology are the best tools in a flying plane. Too many people start trying to intimidate an attacker by daring them to do something stupid…… NO. Don’t do that. calmly inform them of the hazards and try to find a peaceful resolution. You can make them eat concrete when the plane has landed.
Always happy to provide a few helpful hints hun! *Tips hat*
Tell the criminal on the plane to lie on the couch and talk about his childhood. If psychology is the best weapon, then make like Frasier Crane and deal out a therapeutic smackdown!
“I swear if I could draw I would hun. Well, if I could draw and wasn’t always y’know, on shift or in the hospital……..”
What were they always telling Mannix? Oh, Yeah, “Don’t get hit on the head!”
I only know of Mannix from comment on MST3K. Watch the ‘Swamp Diamonds’ episode to hear them rip on Mike ‘Touch’ Connors!
i am placing 10 bucks on the window to murder everyone inside the room once they start shooting 😀
Homophobe fires a shot, which ricochets like crazy and plows through everyone. Four with one shot! G’night, folks!
I don’t think the odds are in favor of the Miscreants here!
Place your bets, folks! Who is walking away from this one without any “owies”?
…10bucks on scap… he’s no on the plane or annywhere near it’s flightpath right? he’s bound to walk out of this one unharmed….right????
…unless the goddamned plane lands on him!
A hundred bucks on Moonie surviving this plane ordeal!
I just saw someone stupid enough to shoot someone on a plane… it was in the movie, Goldfinger… the doof who kidnaps Bond at the end… stupid doof got sucked out the window…
And nice tooning… love the last panel.
Bond movies bend the laws of physics (and reason) more than a bendy soda straw…that’s the best analogy I can come up with. If I think of something more clever later, boy, will you be the first to hear it!
I can tell by that last panel she’s really putting her heads together to formulate a plan. I’ve got faith in the old gal, though.
Maybe she’ll pull through! Maybe…if not, well, there’s always a spare.