They are in the Oval office. 3 seconds after the fight started the room would have been flooded with Secret Service agents with a medical team on standby on the hall. The Secret Service’s first priority would be the president, of course, but once he’s secured they are going to secure everyone in that room for questioning, and that includes medical attention. (corpses are notorious bad at answering questions) Tiki Wiki probably didn’t get past the outer office before being apprehended.
Frankly, the Secret Service of this world is a little too smart to do the thing where they show up and shoot ordinary guns at a gun-invulnerable menace (Link), and then get slaughtered just to demonstrate how useless their guns are. They may be prepared to die to protect the President, but if a nuke hits the Eastern Seaboard they’re gonna spend all their efforts getting him to safety, not trying to kickbox any radiation out of the building. Once they grasped the situation and Julie got the President out, their chief priority was evacuation.
If TW can reach them there’s a chance he can persuade them to go back in, though the last words he said on-panel weren’t exactly encouraging about that.
Elevate her feet. There’s blood in her legs that can flow to her head/heart. You gain a few more seconds at least. And yeah, it wasted Marc if he didn’t save the girl.
Of all the characters who have died in the course of both of Fans’ runs Shanna’s will hit me the hardest if it comes to pass. I’m seriously praying for a miracle right now.
Frankly, once it became clear that Rikk IS gonna die no matter what, then the life of the other characters became pretty much forfeited as well. Now, don’t get me wrong, I will still get enjoyment from reading this fine comic, but a different kind of enjoyment. It’ll be the kind of enjoyment I get when I watch Freddy Krueger’s or Jason Vorhees’ escapades
Part of my point is that there is an Urgent care facility just down the hall from the Oval Office, and a doctor is always just a few feet from the President.
@ Animaniac: i grock you, but this is T’s world. Muppets are actual menaces, heroes talk to god, aliens exist and are all evil dudes, but you can stop doomsday with a song. You either enjoy this kind of work or you dont. Me, i´m taking notes and learning about american idiosincracy with every new page for a decade, and not seeing the end. The comments and the forum are the best part of this comic.
@Animaniac, *I* hear you, but *my* point is that when a giant monster who’s mostly invulnerable to laser fire (let alone gunfire) is in the Oval Office… well, that has never happened before in actual history, but it seems reasonable to me to assume that everyone who can get out gets the hell OUT, and that includes medical personnel. The White House doctors aren’t gonna hang around if a nuke hits D.C., either.
Link is now gone and everyone can return to their normal positions, but that is taking time.
@Drakkin, I appreciate the spirit of your comment, but I’ll never hide behind “hey, all kinds o’ crazy things happen” as an excuse for not thinking through a scene in a rational way. I know some things in my older stories don’t make sense to me anymore, but making sense is always the goal. If you don’t make sense, you can’t ask people to believe in the crazy stuff.
And just to be clear, the Xenochiclets are definitely not evil: their priorities simply aren’t always in line with ours.
Tell me this isn’t as bad as it looks.
I hate these weekend cliffhangers.
you never know. the futures isn’t set in stone after all.
…
…naaah.
Marc saved the girl, remember?
They are in the Oval office. 3 seconds after the fight started the room would have been flooded with Secret Service agents with a medical team on standby on the hall. The Secret Service’s first priority would be the president, of course, but once he’s secured they are going to secure everyone in that room for questioning, and that includes medical attention. (corpses are notorious bad at answering questions) Tiki Wiki probably didn’t get past the outer office before being apprehended.
Frankly, the Secret Service of this world is a little too smart to do the thing where they show up and shoot ordinary guns at a gun-invulnerable menace (Link), and then get slaughtered just to demonstrate how useless their guns are. They may be prepared to die to protect the President, but if a nuke hits the Eastern Seaboard they’re gonna spend all their efforts getting him to safety, not trying to kickbox any radiation out of the building. Once they grasped the situation and Julie got the President out, their chief priority was evacuation.
If TW can reach them there’s a chance he can persuade them to go back in, though the last words he said on-panel weren’t exactly encouraging about that.
But…, but…, Marc saved the girl, damnit.
This week just SUCKS! First Ray Bradbury and now Shanna, the character I most identified with.
Elevate her feet. There’s blood in her legs that can flow to her head/heart. You gain a few more seconds at least. And yeah, it wasted Marc if he didn’t save the girl.
Of all the characters who have died in the course of both of Fans’ runs Shanna’s will hit me the hardest if it comes to pass. I’m seriously praying for a miracle right now.
Frankly, once it became clear that Rikk IS gonna die no matter what, then the life of the other characters became pretty much forfeited as well. Now, don’t get me wrong, I will still get enjoyment from reading this fine comic, but a different kind of enjoyment. It’ll be the kind of enjoyment I get when I watch Freddy Krueger’s or Jason Vorhees’ escapades
When did it become clear that Rikk is gonna die? Animal’s blood is still a viable option.
Rikk’s death, assuming it happens, doesn’t really hit as hard as Marc or Shanna or, potentially, Di for me, really.
Part of my point is that there is an Urgent care facility just down the hall from the Oval Office, and a doctor is always just a few feet from the President.
If this arc doesn’t end with the Spirit of Ray Bradbury setting everything right in the world, then, damn it, T, I’ll be gravely disappointed.
@ Animaniac: i grock you, but this is T’s world. Muppets are actual menaces, heroes talk to god, aliens exist and are all evil dudes, but you can stop doomsday with a song. You either enjoy this kind of work or you dont. Me, i´m taking notes and learning about american idiosincracy with every new page for a decade, and not seeing the end. The comments and the forum are the best part of this comic.
@Animaniac, *I* hear you, but *my* point is that when a giant monster who’s mostly invulnerable to laser fire (let alone gunfire) is in the Oval Office… well, that has never happened before in actual history, but it seems reasonable to me to assume that everyone who can get out gets the hell OUT, and that includes medical personnel. The White House doctors aren’t gonna hang around if a nuke hits D.C., either.
Link is now gone and everyone can return to their normal positions, but that is taking time.
@Drakkin, I appreciate the spirit of your comment, but I’ll never hide behind “hey, all kinds o’ crazy things happen” as an excuse for not thinking through a scene in a rational way. I know some things in my older stories don’t make sense to me anymore, but making sense is always the goal. If you don’t make sense, you can’t ask people to believe in the crazy stuff.
And just to be clear, the Xenochiclets are definitely not evil: their priorities simply aren’t always in line with ours.