Is it the swords? Is it the skill?
No, it's gotta be the shoes!
I suppose I could have gone with "I have the high ground," but honestly, that's not really a big advantage in a sword fight. It is an advantage in a shoving match, though. And traction is even more of an advantage.
Still, it's not that long a fall, and Krylov is made of pretty tough stuff. We're not done with this fight yet.
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Gail might like to keep that saber, but her own katana is not a thing to pass up lightly.
Great tactical approach. Krylov may have great skill with her blades, but it seems she lacking real combat experience.
Two questions:
1. On the "shove" panel, Gail's center of mass is depicted as being just vertical of the edge of the roof, or a smidge past it. With any momentum, she'd be past it and falling along with Krylove in the next split second. How the heck did she stay on the roof?
2. Why did Krylov let go of her sword when she fell? For one thing, a swordsman is trained not to let go of his weapon. For another, when falling people tend to grasp at whatever they can... even if it's their own sword.
It's just over confidence, Krylov has way more experience than Gail.
And she has wings. I don't see how Gail can win this fight. I kind of want her to loose actually, it would be realistic and it would be great to see her and her grandmother again. Meanwhile if the Steel Angels get desperate my favourite Bella gets to shine!
Nandan-
1. Er... yes. Gail is a little over-extended on that panel. If you need an explanation, Gail's strength-to-bodyweight ratio is somewhere in the superhuman scale, so that might account for her being able to recover her balance before falling. If you prefer a more accurate explanation, it's that the artist chose a dynamic pose over a realistic one.
2. As for why Krylov let go of her short blade, that's also... artist's limitation. I sketched a few different versions of that panel with a disarming twist along with a heavy shove. But it all looked sadly confusing. I even tried a version where Gail pulled the knife in and past her abdomen, twisting and lunging forward to knock Krylov off the edge with a low shoulder counter. I couldn't get it to look like anything other than a total mess.
Basically, the writer has been known to write checks that the artist can't cash throughout this series, and here is another example.
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