Smith & Wessons usually have longer barrels and a more streamlined appearance. To me it looks like an old Python or .44 but considering this is a comic strip drawing Paul probably just drew a revolver without any specific model in mind.
It’s definitely a Smith and Wesson. You can tell by the cylinder latch under the hammer and the barrel lug near the muzzle. However, it does have a ramp front sight so it’s no earlier than the 1950’s. It doesn’t have the heavy barrel lug of a Model 29 .44 Magnum. Seeing as Monica is a smallish person, I’m going with a Model 19 .357 Magnum.
I’ve always thought that Yoda’s lightsaber should have a tsuba type handguard (made of lightsaber-resistant material¹) that could be stored folded-up.
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¹Such materials no longer being “canon”, thanks to Darth-Mickey’s bastardization of the Star Wars franchise. As if that wasn’t bad enough; the Disney Media and Marketing Empiire (aka: Darth-Mickey) was more concerned with how “cool” they could make a lightsaber with a cross-guard look (and, of course, how much money they could make marketing stuff based on said “cool” design) than with how much SENSE it’d make to have a LIGHTSABER with a *bleep*ing CROSS-guard! 😡
I’ve had some discussions on this subject and I used to agree with you on the stupidity of the cross-guard saber. I’m not an expert on sword fighting, but this is how it was explained to me. The main point of a cross-guard is to make it easier to deflect attacks when you can’t get the blade up to block and then transition to attack. Having a cross-guard could have possibly saved Luke’s hand(blocking Vader’s slash), Qui-gon’s life(deflecting Maul’s thrust), among numerous others. There were a lot more details I’ve forgotten, but it made sense to me. But, hey, I’m no expert.
The explanation I heard for the ‘crossgaurd’ was that the red sabers used an artificial crystal made by the user, and that in his overpowered basterd sword version the crystal was flawed and suffered from power flares. In order to prevent the flares from damaging the crystal he had to bleed off the power as ‘side flares’. This is why a) the blade lights up THEN the gaurd (the power has to build up before a flare), and b) the blade is normal while the guard wavers/ flares
Now this IS just justification for ‘something cool to sell’, but it does ‘fit’ the original canon reasonably well.
As well as anything else, she should make sure she knows how to handle it safely & practice with it. It does take a measure of responsibility to handle a gun, any gun. The whole problem with guns nowadays comes from people who are already violently aggressive before they even touch a gun, or people who are totally ignorant about guns & their proper use. In the hands of people who know what they’re doing & have any mind towards civic responsibility, guns actually save lives…Indeed, guns in such hands save far more lives than what you hear about in the news, because they entirely focus on the idiots & the criminals who use them.
In my imagination I’ve always imagined her GP carried a Webley revolver chambered in .455, or possibly a Webley-Fosbery Automatic revolver. For some reason these are what I associate with adventurers and treasure hunters. But in hind sight a S&W is a logic choice for an American adventurer.
Enter Chekov’s Pistol, anyone?
A phaser set to stun would be categorically more civilized.
…Maybe an old Smith & Wesson Model 1917? These were chambered for the .45 Auto cartridge and would have still been in use during WW2.
Okay, that you can even is, for someone like me who knows nothing about different gun models, really cool!
Smith & Wessons usually have longer barrels and a more streamlined appearance. To me it looks like an old Python or .44 but considering this is a comic strip drawing Paul probably just drew a revolver without any specific model in mind.
Looks way too detailed to be just a random doodle of a revolver. Almost looks like a photo with a black and white filter over it, even.
Possibly a 1917 S&W modified with a short barrel and a custom ramp?
Custom gunsmiths were around very early on, and somebody had to start using ramp fronts.
It’s definitely a Smith and Wesson. You can tell by the cylinder latch under the hammer and the barrel lug near the muzzle. However, it does have a ramp front sight so it’s no earlier than the 1950’s. It doesn’t have the heavy barrel lug of a Model 29 .44 Magnum. Seeing as Monica is a smallish person, I’m going with a Model 19 .357 Magnum.
DAYAM!!! Is that a handgun or a Death Star turbolaser?
Keep in mind she doesn’t break 5 feet tall. A Derenger would look normal in her hands. 🙂
The gun talk that shows up on this comic is …. astonishingly sexy.
>.>
*shrugs* people who read comics have lives outside their reading of comics. go figure.
Strange how many people know about guns that read a slice-of-life turned mystery-fantasy comic
I’m appalled at the lack of star wars comments here! It’s disgraceful! Shameful, even!
Han shot first.
So you find our lack of comments…disturbing?
Well, here’s where to get the more civilised option
http://www.ultrasabers.com/
So tempted, but not cheap…
Right, my setup (twin sabers with curved hilts and all the extras) will cost around $1200.
I’ve always thought that Yoda’s lightsaber should have a tsuba type handguard (made of lightsaber-resistant material¹) that could be stored folded-up.
•—•—•—•
¹Such materials no longer being “canon”, thanks to Darth-Mickey’s bastardization of the Star Wars franchise. As if that wasn’t bad enough; the Disney Media and Marketing Empiire (aka: Darth-Mickey) was more concerned with how “cool” they could make a lightsaber with a cross-guard look (and, of course, how much money they could make marketing stuff based on said “cool” design) than with how much SENSE it’d make to have a LIGHTSABER with a *bleep*ing CROSS-guard! 😡
I’ve had some discussions on this subject and I used to agree with you on the stupidity of the cross-guard saber. I’m not an expert on sword fighting, but this is how it was explained to me. The main point of a cross-guard is to make it easier to deflect attacks when you can’t get the blade up to block and then transition to attack. Having a cross-guard could have possibly saved Luke’s hand(blocking Vader’s slash), Qui-gon’s life(deflecting Maul’s thrust), among numerous others. There were a lot more details I’ve forgotten, but it made sense to me. But, hey, I’m no expert.
The explanation I heard for the ‘crossgaurd’ was that the red sabers used an artificial crystal made by the user, and that in his overpowered basterd sword version the crystal was flawed and suffered from power flares. In order to prevent the flares from damaging the crystal he had to bleed off the power as ‘side flares’. This is why a) the blade lights up THEN the gaurd (the power has to build up before a flare), and b) the blade is normal while the guard wavers/ flares
Now this IS just justification for ‘something cool to sell’, but it does ‘fit’ the original canon reasonably well.
Blasters… so uncivilized.
A hefty blaster, to compliment her own ‘big guns’… 😉
As well as anything else, she should make sure she knows how to handle it safely & practice with it. It does take a measure of responsibility to handle a gun, any gun. The whole problem with guns nowadays comes from people who are already violently aggressive before they even touch a gun, or people who are totally ignorant about guns & their proper use. In the hands of people who know what they’re doing & have any mind towards civic responsibility, guns actually save lives…Indeed, guns in such hands save far more lives than what you hear about in the news, because they entirely focus on the idiots & the criminals who use them.
In my imagination I’ve always imagined her GP carried a Webley revolver chambered in .455, or possibly a Webley-Fosbery Automatic revolver. For some reason these are what I associate with adventurers and treasure hunters. But in hind sight a S&W is a logic choice for an American adventurer.
One of Indiana Jones’ revolvers was a Webley in .455, that might have something to do with it.