Page Notes
Episode published on Sunday 15th of June, 2008.
This strip was delayed (by about six months) due to my participation in an original character tournament called "Steel Nation". Looking back I am surprised that I managed to juggle university, the tournament and Detulux in the manner I did. I had a lot more free time back then, I guess!
I vaguely remember that Sam was still shading the comic at this point, and then when I came back to working on it off of Steel Nation I felt happy enough with my airbrush shading so I got back to just doing everything myself. You can see the shading transition around the large panel where Pain declares "smeg!".
There's also an offhand reference to the miscarriage storyline from Ctrl-Alt-Del, which was in fashion at the time. I'm not particularly proud of it, I was just jumping on the bandwagon.
Tagged:
The Captain,
Jack Bauser,
Location - Burdener Island,
Location - Spain,
Max Valerion
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Transcript
Title - 61: "Occupant Sin 4"
Subtitle - xlii. "Guns Akimbo"
(Pain and Captain approach a set of crumbling ruins. Captain sweats profusley.)
Pain: Hmm...an ominous maze of ruins. Bauser's guaranteed to be waiting for us here somewhere. But don't worry, we have the-
(The Captain calls out into the ruins, shaking a fist.)
Captain: ALRIGHT BAUSER! COME ON OUT! WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!
(Pain adjusts his glasses, annoyed.)
Pain: -element of surprise. We had the element of surprise.
Captain: Oops, my bad. Sorry, Boss, I really can't think straight right now. My head's buzzin'-
(Pain begins counting things off on his fingers, the Captain is enthusiastic.)
Pain: Yes, yes. Fine. Let's evaluate the situation. Bauser has a maze he's probably quite familiar with now, and in the time it's taken us to get here he's also probably got ahold of a cache of weapons he'd stored somewhere. He's a crack sharpshooter, a master of combat with the agility of a commando on steroids and he's disbanded or outright killed more foreign terrorist groups than we've had hot dinners.
Captain: Right!
Pain: We, on the other hand, are tired from running all day, hungry since we haven't eaten anything since breakfast, suffering from general exhaustion and one of us has the shakes due to a ten-minute nicotine deprivation.
Captain: (suddenly less enthusiastic) Oh.
(Pain and the Captain pause to think. Captain pulls out his Uzis.)
Captain: Ah, but we're armed!
(Pain removes his .41 Magnum from his jacket.)
Pain: Yes! Good point! Due to your slightly disturbing kleptomaniacal urge to search every corpse between Pubelo to here, we now have so much ammunition that we can afford to waste bullets and fire blindly if we need to.
Captain: Damn straight!
Pain: Yes! So let's see...we have guns, and there are two of us to his one, and Bauser-
Bauser: -Has been standing above you for the last two minutes.
(It's revealed that Jack Bauser has been stood on a wall behind Pain and the Captain listening to the entire conversation.)
Pain: Smeg!
(Bauser leaps for a ruined building opposite as the Captain opens fire.)
Captain: Hey Bauser! Why don't you ever get the point...of my bullets!
SFX: DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!
(Bauser expertly rolls across the rooftop into safety as the Captain's bullets fly overhead. He runs out of ammunition.)
SFX: CLICK CLICK CLICK
Pain: You know, there's a difference between not needing to conserve ammunition and unloading two full Uzi clips into the side of a poor, defenceless, unarmed building.
Captain: But it looked cool, right? With the awesome one-liner?
Pain: Actually, you should only ever use "get the point" while stabbing someone. Don't worry, next time I need to intimidate the broad-side of a barn, I'll know who to call on.
(Bauser rises, returning fire from his rooftop with a machinegun.)
Bauser: Sorry to interrupt!
SFX: BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA!
(Pain drags the Captain into antoher ruined building to escape the gunfire. Captain reloads his Uzis.)
Captain: Don't sweat it Boss, I've got this guy covered!
(The Captain leaps sideways from cover firing both guns at Bauser.)
Captain: GRAAAAAAAAAAAH!
SFX: DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!
(Bauser stands on his rooftop vantage point nonplussed as the bullets hit everything but him, including an unlucky crow and a random farmer standing on the mountainside in the distance. The Captain lands on his face.)
SFX: CRACK!
(In the distance, Bauser throws up his arms and yells.)
Bauser: What the hell is wrong with you? I'm standing right here! F*ck. Moron.
(Pain calls out to the Captain as he lies on the floor, concussed.)
Pain: Just for future reference, that's why nobody ever really does stuff like that!
Captain: Ah bif mah tongf.
Episode tagline: Jack Bauser is so manly that he can impregnate a woman just by glaring at her. Adversely, his glare has been known to upset certain pregnancies...oops, sorry Lilah.
