As a kind of experiment, my friend and I decided to cross our skills a bit for maximum cognitive dissonance. I sent him the latest HDS page's linework and he coloured it as if he was colouring a page of our comic ATXS.

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The result is pretty interesting, if I do say so myself.

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I can't scan right now, but the page is indeed drawn and inked. Should be up by tomorrow morning. EST: 6:45 AM, PST.

I've been very absent over the past week, even though I planned on doing a couple of HDS pages over the weekend. This is because my mother fell very ill, and had to be hospitalized. I simply haven't been up to it, between going to class, visiting her at the hospital, and taking care of my younger brother at home.

I'm sorry. This should be sorted out in a few days, I promise.

has just done something INSANELY AMAZING:

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Watch him, favourite this, say how awesome he is, because seriously this is the best fanart of HDS I've ever gotten.

The rise of the AEGIS regime and the illegalization of gunpowder, high explosives (except in certain cases, such as demolitions and dam-building), and firearms, has stimulated abundant research, for about thirty or forty years, into non-gunpowder ranged weapons. This is because, due to the vast expanses of territory and population that AEGIS must control, the need still exists for a comparable force-multiplier to that of the automatic rifle, in a political environment that does not tolerate such weapons for fear of mass uprising and guerrilla insurgency.

Thus prompted, and applying twentieth and twenty-first century science to the subject, the scientists and engineers of Hexagon Death Squad's world have pushed several items well in advance of our present world. They are:

The Cartridge-Loaded Rapid-Fire Crossbow

The Pneumatic Spear Gun

and has begun earnest research into

The Electromagnetic Rail Gun



(More later)