Oh My God, It's Full of Speedlines

There you go -- another strip with action in it -- this time a sustained sequence over the course of several panels. This turned out a lot better than I hoped, since I usually plan these things and then take the Cowardly Artist's Way Out by having the action happen off-panel or just show the build up and the aftermath. Action sequences are a lot of fun to draw, but time-consuming if you're trying to do a very fast-paced, plot driven storyline like I am. (Notice that I got around this by having him narrate over the top of the action.)

We've evidently moved on from Sin City to the Matrix now. Just be glad I didn't have the shotgun pellets missing them both in bullet-time freeze-frame. (I say that in the full knowledge that I've done bullet time before, way, way, back in the strip's history.)

For anyone who counts that sort of thing, Holly's using an Amiga -- although Amiga never released a laptop, it can be assumed that she's using either a 1200 or 4000 base with a Power PC chip, mounted into a generic laptop case. Why she'd end up with this in Russia is beyond me -- it's much more a German kind of thing, despite the obviously Spanish name. It's also the old Amiga tick logo that's been painted on the case, which by 1997 had been popularly (but, I think, unofficially) replaced by the Boing Ball.

Henri Paul was the guy drunk off his arse driving the car the night Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi, Prince of Harrods were killed. Or died. Take your pick.

Best bits: Halifax's acrobatic gun-dodge; the speed lines.
Worst bits: Halifax's wonky glasses in the second panel; the somewhat dubious computers in the last two panels.