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Now to kick off this shindig we have our very first fan mail:
Then send in your fan mail (or hate mail) to 00120vc@gmail.com
I'll put your fan mail up at the The Confessional and I'll even answer your questions!
Now to kick off this shindig we have our very first fan mail:
Hello, I was very pleased to find your online version of Evangeline this weekend; I remember the comic back from the 1980s (unfortunately, I was only ever able to find the first issue; I wandered away from comics shortly after that.) Welcome back. Thank you for making the older comics available again, and I am looking forward to reading the new stories.
Do you have any plans to include the background/equipment pages from the back of the first issue in the archive?
I'm also particularly curious to see if there were similar background/weaponry info in the later issues, like there was with the first. Just call me a gearhead, but I always loved those little bits of crunchy goodness after the stories ("Tigers of Terra", for example, was great for that.)
Hi Rod!
Thanks for the comments!
It's nice to see that fans of Evangeline are rediscovering the series now that its online!
And for thanks for reminding me about that equipment page, Rod. For those of you who have just started reading Evangeline online, in the first printed issue of Guns of Mars there was a page at the end of the first issue called Evangeline's Guns.
Do you have any plans to include the background/equipment pages from the back of the first issue in the archive?
I'm also particularly curious to see if there were similar background/weaponry info in the later issues, like there was with the first. Just call me a gearhead, but I always loved those little bits of crunchy goodness after the stories ("Tigers of Terra", for example, was great for that.)
Sincerely,
Rod B.
Hi Rod!
Thanks for the comments!
It's nice to see that fans of Evangeline are rediscovering the series now that its online!
And for thanks for reminding me about that equipment page, Rod. For those of you who have just started reading Evangeline online, in the first printed issue of Guns of Mars there was a page at the end of the first issue called Evangeline's Guns.
This page has some very cool stuff. Sadly, Evangeline's Guns did not show up again after the first issue.
But rest assured Evangeline fans! Evangeline's Guns will make appearances in the future releases of Evangeline! As a big fan of technical gadgetry and firearms, I've always enjoyed seeing this kind of stuff in comic books. My personal favorite were the Punisher Armory issues.
I used to dig through the dollar bins every week at the local comic book store in the hope of scoring an issue about a vigilante and his passion ofpopping boners over giving detailed descriptions of firearms.
But rest assured Evangeline fans! Evangeline's Guns will make appearances in the future releases of Evangeline! As a big fan of technical gadgetry and firearms, I've always enjoyed seeing this kind of stuff in comic books. My personal favorite were the Punisher Armory issues.
I used to dig through the dollar bins every week at the local comic book store in the hope of scoring an issue about a vigilante and his passion of
Ahhhh...The days of my misspent young!
So without further ado allow me to present:
TA-DA!
So without further ado allow me to present:
Disclaimer: This is only a high-res scan from the above mentioned issue
with a bit of graph paper texture thrown on top.
I have not found the original art. Yet.with a bit of graph paper texture thrown on top.
The reason why I have not made this available until now is because of the some of technical descriptions that Chuck Dixon had written for these guns.
Chuck has always been awesome when it comes to writing hi-tech comic book weaponry and hardware. And he really shines when it comes to the topic of firearms!
But teflon coated? Um, yeah... that's like thee worst subject to drag into anything gun related next to the Chauchat.
Chuck has always been awesome when it comes to writing hi-tech comic book weaponry and hardware. And he really shines when it comes to the topic of firearms!
While this has some that Chuck Dixon shine, it also has a couple of unpolished details that I disagree with.
Browning-Marata
Special Safety Load. Hmmmm... I think Chuck was tying describe a heavy duty Glaser Safety Slug.
Which would've been fine except for the gold jacket. Gold is soft. A gold jacket would fall apart the moment the round was fired. The load that it failed to contain would end up doing more damage to the inside of the barrel then to the bad guy.
Now here's a rifle that I'm sure that Blondie would love to have! And the ammo in a sabot configuration is excellent choice!
For those of you aren't avid gun nuts, a sabot is a specially shaped, two-stage cartridge. It has an outer jacket sleeve that partially envelopes a bullet that is smaller than the bore diameter.
Bullets and their sabot sleeves
The advantages of this is:
-The life of the gun barrel is greatly enhanced as the sabot resin material causes less frictional wear against the rifling. Therefore, the barrel rifling would not build up copper or lead residues from bullets due to the fact that there is no physical contact with the barrel during expansion.
-The muzzle velocity of the bullet is substantially increased due to less drag during expansion of the barrel.
-And lastly, the bullet will travel longer distances and a flatter trajectory!
Great for target shooting, small game hunting and shooting up bandits on Mars!
Styer-Daimler Sting PistolWhich would've been fine except for the gold jacket. Gold is soft. A gold jacket would fall apart the moment the round was fired. The load that it failed to contain would end up doing more damage to the inside of the barrel then to the bad guy.
Savage C600 Lever Action Rifle
Now here's a rifle that I'm sure that Blondie would love to have! And the ammo in a sabot configuration is excellent choice!
For those of you aren't avid gun nuts, a sabot is a specially shaped, two-stage cartridge. It has an outer jacket sleeve that partially envelopes a bullet that is smaller than the bore diameter.
Bullets and their sabot sleeves
The advantages of this is:
-The life of the gun barrel is greatly enhanced as the sabot resin material causes less frictional wear against the rifling. Therefore, the barrel rifling would not build up copper or lead residues from bullets due to the fact that there is no physical contact with the barrel during expansion.
-The muzzle velocity of the bullet is substantially increased due to less drag during expansion of the barrel.
-And lastly, the bullet will travel longer distances and a flatter trajectory!
Great for target shooting, small game hunting and shooting up bandits on Mars!
Hide-away guns are traditionally last ditch, but in the right hands they can be pretty lethal. And the ammo for this hide-away would easily spell trouble for any baddie wearing Kevlar armor. 100 Stainless needles? Ouch! I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that gun anytime soon!
But teflon coated? Um, yeah... that's like thee worst subject to drag into anything gun related next to the Chauchat.
However these needles would be just has lethal (if not more) if they were made with a little tungsten carbide. Armor or no armor, that would ruin a bad guy's day for sure!!
I realize most of what I have pointed out in this post is from hindsight and reliable sources on the internet. A very unfair advantage considering to what resources Chuck Dixon had in the 80's which were gun shops, books, and firearm enthusiast magazines.
Back to work! Thanks again for the email Rod. Stick with us because I can guarantee that you'll love the new hi-tech gadgets and firearms in new upcoming issue of Evangeline! I plan on making the weaponry in the book a combination of the gadgets from James Bond and the Bourne Identity flicks...really nasty and really cool! You'll wish it was available at local Gun shop or Radioshack!
-Ben Dixon
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