Originally posted by Borbarad
It's not needed to paint down afterimages to convey motion. Look at the fights in the DE comics - with the exception for the "disarm movements" or killing moves - you don't have such hints of movements. Same with the TOTJ comics (mostly). I don't see why they should have switched their way to convey motion. As well as I don't see why the Sith would prefer Sith swords over lightsabers when they lack speed using them.Kressh breaks his sword by swinging it on a table, yes. Still...it's a metal sword and technically he shouldn't be able to brake it that way, especially not when he has put it into a wall before. That doesn't only require sheer strength but also control (as much as not hammering the blade into the table but instead break the weapon).
And look at the comics. Ragnos appears to be quite huge compared to Kressh and Sadow. Same when he approaches Kun and Ulic in DLotS. In JK:JA it's even more obvious. His sceptre and his sword a larger than Tavion. And somebody who always carries a sceptre around with a Sith sword hidden inside, both approxematly 2 metres long and crafted out of metal must have some very great physical strength.
Well...Sadow's mutated Massassi did pocess enough physical strength to floor a Cathar Jedi with bare hands. Kun did push down Sylvar with his left arm only in ther duel in DLotS #1. And sorry...going by physical appearance Kun looks weaker than Nadd (physical strength) who is a joke compared to Ragnos.
Going by this Ragnos natural strength might already be a match for Shimrra and it can only get worse for the Overlord if Ragnos boosts up his speed and strength with his force powers. And that's not even thinking about the idea that Ragnos might destroy the entire enviroment when they fight in a "neutral" area.
It's not one set artist, though. Every artist is going to have his own way of conveying motion...Frank Miller prefers to go without the motion silhouettes, most of the DC comics have them and I am utterly certain other SW comics have them besides TOTJ-I recall seeing some in Republic, I think. I could name a few comics that use the same to convey motion.
When Kressh's sword breaks, it looks a lot like a different material than plain metal-it's the floor, too, not a table...and this time, he's swinging it flat down, not edge. Usually that's gonna seriously damage your blade no matter how good the edge it.
We don't see Ragnos alive. just statues and his ghost, so there's nothing to go on...and Ragnos's sword would probably fit someone six to seven feet tall...I mean, it's big, but it's not so big as to only be weilded by a giant, especially when Tavion lugs it around no problem...hell, Shimrra's own weapon is...about six feet? My memory on his amphistaff is off.
And in some fairness, Kun lashed out at Sylvar's face and knocked her back...hell, by just looking at them, Kun is probably the stronger guy, even if Syl's a Cathar....and once more, this is physical strength and there's rarely an end all be all. Also, the Massassi who floored Sylvar wasn't a normal Massassi. He was massive and mutated
if Ragnos does destroy the environment, is that really a smart move? Shimrra is extremely fast, agile, smart and with a flexible, manueverable weapon, plus, if the two lock, Shimrra has numerous weapons built into his own body.
It's a 'might', but all we have there on conjecture when it comes to the actual size and strength of Ragnos in comparison to Shimrra
Lightsnake, stop arguing with facts ok? I'm getting tired of effortlessly destroying your weak arguments. We can also say that in DLOTS that the Dark Lord doesn't look like Ragnos at all. What are you going to do, argue with the scan because the artwork is piss poor? Please.. I tell you what, take another 6 months off and come back when youre ready..
Veneficius, thanks baby..
Originally posted by Lightsnake
Who cares about what the actual comic shows?
Td, you are something else
They don't seem to use afterimages to convey the movement of the Jedi in Fall of the Sith Empire, which is by the same author.
Also, as Rex mentions, Sith Alchemy isn't use of the force, it's use of Sith practices that produces something tangible. For example, Sith Alchemy produced a Leviathan; you damn well believe a Leviathan can hurt a Vong.
Sith Alchemy would make the swords razor sharp, possibly poison-tipped, and slice through the air with relative ease. Something like that flying at your head with great velocity AND great power, will cleave through stuff. So unless the Vong armor is immune to trauma and physical damage, I fail to see how a slayer, or even Shimrra, would last very long against someone like Ragnos.
Because Vong armor isn't designed just for sabers and blasters, which they have zero knowledge about beforehand? Vonduum Crab armor is supposed to be top of the line and has proven to be incredibly durable. There's also the factor that the swords are powered by the dark side, so it's possible the sword would repel instead of striking the Vong. Hell, the way you just described them swords could apply to razor bugs and Vong armor repels them very easily. to quote: One will cut you, two will cripple you, three will leave you in pieces."
And I doubt the Vong will stand there and let them hit, especially with weapons like an amphistaff when a single bite can kill an opponent. We've still got no idea how Sith weaponry stands up to Vong weaponry either, the amphistaff was designed for combat in many situations and has often been put to the test.
And Fall of the Sith Empire, unlike GAotS had no mano a mano duels to my recollection, at least none taking center stage like Naga vs. Ludo. At every point And I'm not sure how much control the author actually has over the minute details of the art.
And Td, dear? Take a good look at Korriban in GAotS...look at it in KOTOR, and then in JA, and finally back in DlotS...then look at the sword in JA, the swords in GAotS and the swords in KOTOR-Ludo KRessh's war sword- then try to tell me those things haven't been redesigned to hell and back.