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 #48: Synopsis
Don's long search for Chi Yun finally reaches The End of the Road.
It might not be what you expect...
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Re: #48: Synopsis
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Don [Issue #48]
SuperCobra!
That's going to be very elderly helicopter!
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Don [Issue #48]
Nobody is going to believe how we did that!
Even the author who couldn't bring himself to publish it!
Are all your K-Men colonial marines? Is it meant to be ironic?
Great issue, Don seems to have supernatural powers in this on though.
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Don [Issue #48]
SuperCobra!
That's going to be very elderly helicopter!
I'd like to retract that, though most AH-1W date from 1983 onwards the upgrade to AH-1Z standard will not be complete until 2013!
Sorry about the geekism...
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You're right, I don't believe how they did that. Bit of a cop out, wasn't it?
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Don [Issue #48]
SuperCobra!
That's going to be very elderly helicopter!
I'd like to retract that, though most AH-1W date from 1983 onwards the upgrade to AH-1Z standard will not be complete until 2013!
Sorry about the geekism...
I wish I had known the dates for the AH-1Z... ah well, projects never hit deadlines so they could still be using the older model in 2014.
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11/2/2008, 21:11
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Are all your K-Men colonial marines? Is it meant to be ironic?
Not all of them, because I didn't decide on it from the start. Quite a few of them, though.
Wait till I do the bug hunt issue...
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Don [Issue #48]
Nobody is going to believe how we did that!
Even the author who couldn't bring himself to publish it!
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You're right, I don't believe how they did that. Bit of a cop out, wasn't it?
It wasn't supposed to be a cop-out. I know exactly how they did it, and I could have freed up enough pages to show it... I just thought the way I wrote it was more interesting.
When this issue was conceived there were two essential things I wanted to include:
1) Don is trapped in an exploding building and miraculously survives (we don't know how).
2) Don is surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned, and miraculously escapes (we don't know how).
I never intended to show how he did those things. Showing it would make it ordinary, not showing it should make you think... wow, he's good.
Maybe I misjudged it, but when I read it back I still like it.
Maybe it would have worked better if he wore a hat and I showed that he always had it in each scene...
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Anyway, the important thing is to realise that Chi-Yun is irrevocably lost. Sorry about that 
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I always assumed he did wear a hat in each scene; a NASA baseball cap naturally.
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1) Don is trapped in an exploding building and miraculously survives (we don't know how).
2) Don is surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned, and miraculously escapes (we don't know how).
When I read it I thought:
1. That's strange; but he is that good.
2. That's ridiculous.
Later I began to think he may have an as yet unrevealed trick up his sleeve.
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