Nice!

great work

Thanks!

very awesome. Your attention to detail is superb!

Thank you! I'm glad that folks do factor detail and precision into their tastes.

Absolute chaos.

That's what happens when the government runs for the hills!

He wants to defend himself with a silenced MAC-11? Good for close quaters, but that thing is so inaccurate that you have to spray a magazine on your enemy and hope that you hit and then again, in 3 seconds you have crapped all 30 rounds out of the mag. And its only 9mm so anyone who wears body armor just laughts at you.....I could go on.

Why didnt he get at least an AK-74U or something like that?

Compactness and portability, mainly. Plus, even a 9mm is quite lethal if used properly, and Fred is a proper user. He won't spray all 30 rounds in a single burst, he knows most of his adversaries can't afford body armor, and he doesn't plan on charging anyone headlong. Plus, the MAC-11 is affordable and available in the story's timeline, and perhaps one of few suppressed submachine guns that mercenaries would have access to, others possibly being the Sterling L34A1 and the Uzi.

The MAC 11 possesses entirely adequate accuracy at the ranges it is meant to be used. It was designed from the ground up for quite close-in work. It is not meant for engagements beyond fifty feet, much less fifty yards. While it does not compare to the silenced H&Ks in use today for accuracy, at the time it was designed, the big advantages that made it useful for special operations were its portability/concealability, its high rate of fire (yes, this is a negative for the average soldier) and its designed-in compatibility with Werbell's Sionics suppressor. The latter was such a significant feature that supposedly various other countries cancelled orders for the MAC 10 when the suppressors became unavailable.

For room-clearing and close encounters, in hands with good trigger control, it's quite the efficient little monster. I've fired its big brother, the MAC 10, and it is nothing like so inaccurate as requiring emptying an entire magazine at a man-sized target to 'hope' for a hit. Particularly with the shoulder strap looped to provide bracing against the forward thrust gripping hand, three to six round twitching bursts on silhouette targets were not difficult to keep in roughly center of mass. No, you don't get pretty little cloverleafs at 20-30m like a modern H&K MP5SD6 with the three-round will give you, but three rounds in the area of a salad-plate at 15m is entirely adequate.

Most soldiers wear flak vests and helmets meant to stop shrapnel...NOT to stop bullets, like police body armor, and even police body armor only recently reached a point where non-trauma-plated areas would stop NATO ball 9. NATO ball 9 will punch through a chicken vest just dandy and will slip multiple layers of kevlar. In the 70s (when this story is set), with not a lot of trauma plates around, it did just dandy service.

Love it. Love it. Love it

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I just love the badgers/clerks face. Just 4 that shallith favith!

Tendjew, tendjewberrymud!

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Dude......I love this comic already......After seeing that Mac11 with the silencer, you just earned yourself a fanatical fan xD

Personally I think that the Mac11 is a good choice but I think the PP200 would have been a better choice :D

I'm happy to hear that! the Mac11 may ultimately become Fred's signature weapon but I haven't thought out enough of the story yet to say whether he will even have such a thing, since he's not picky. Mark my words, though, someone- or several someones will be splattered by this thing in the coming pages.

Good to hear! Does he also have a pistol as a side arm if his Mac goes kaput on him? Or is he a lone gun gunney?

Normally he carries a pistol, but in some cases his weapons are seized by customs and he has to worry about replacements. In the interim he also carries a trusty special forces knife (a Wittingslowe, derived from the famous Fairbairn-Sykes) and will use any local ordnance he can lay hands on.

Nice! What type of pistol does he normally carry? Cus to me he seems like an M1911A1 guy.

You hit the nail right on the head!

Nice! XD

I love Elise's uncannily timed sense of humor.

I think you're the only person so far who has made the connection between "E" and "Elise"

I had thought of spelling out her name, but then considered the implications that might have with customs and law enforcement officials if the package was intercepted.

Indeed. Besides, somehow this shows Elise has a more feminine side, writing something witty that happens to be particularly hilarious when the package is open.

Well, I have been paying attention the last couple times she's shown up.

I absolutely love your page layouts... and the characters! :D

Thank you very much! I'm flattered!

i love this comic awesome work man

Thanks!

Bla, Bla, Bla gun disscusions.. The artwork is fantastic.. "why didn't she send a bazooka?" SHUT-UP! ARTWORK! Fantastic detail...."why are the mags empty?" Can't anyone just admire your talent for what it is.. the time and hard work and long hours that go into these has to be staggering. I'm just trying to knock out a 36 page comic in B&W and it's taken me months.. you've got to have done alot of these and all in full color.. if you don't print this when your done... your missing out. fantastic. keep it up!

There will always be dissent and disagreement among gun aficionados, and while they can come off easily as obsessive it's also often a good idea to hear them out and weigh their words. I'd say about a third of what I've learned about guns in general comes just from the words of enthusiasts, though I try to get varying opinions and fact-check a little.

In any case, I'm happy that you appreciate the artwork! I don't know if I can make every page work out this nicely, but with all these artists stopping by to compliment me I have to say I'm quite flattered. Thank you!

There's a civil war going on, it's much too far to anywhere safe, all I have is a silenced submachine gun, and I'm wearing a red Hawaiian shirt.

Hit it!

Niice, decent choice on weapon too.

hmmm just like how the old CIA was equipped =3 before the new rules and such. LOL XD

Ah hell, an uzi and several clips! This is definitely turning into my kinda comic!

Very nice! What's the comic about? And what the heck is going on in the scene? Where does it take place?

Very nice! What's the comic about? And what the heck is going on in the scene? Where does it take place?

The comic is about a mercenary who is rudely awakened by a coup d'etat in a fictional country in West Africa. In this scene, the other tourists at the hotel are understandably a bit on the frantic side- this coup has managed to catch just about everyone by surprise.

If you want to know more, take a read through what I've got so far! I'm confident you won't be disappointed.

I certainly have, and am not Disappointed one bit! xd