TriMax 6 Chapter 1

Chapter One - The Gunslinger

I was good. I restrained myself from scanning all the wonderful pages of Vashiness. I only scanned a few....

Sumire's take on things.

Page 5. Meryl's nightmare.Some Zazie, and a whole lot of Vash.

Page 8. Wolfwood and Meryl talk around the big winged Vash thing. Neither one tells what they actually know.

Page 11. Vash at Marlon's range. The revolver needs a service.

Page 14. Meryl remembers her father teaching her to shoot. She also remembers how she felt the first time she shot someone.

Page 16. Vash at Marlon's range again. He's shooting off an awful lot of rounds with Marlon's loaner gun.

Page 17. Marlon watches. Vash shoots until his hand bleeds and shakes.

Page 18. Vash's target with a few areas of neat little holes. And the arrogant, bolshy idiot of this little tale who gut-punches him.

Page 27. Vash takes on the heavily armoured bad guys unarmed in typical style, relying on speed, and gets a bullet in the shoulder. We notice he has the Cross Punisher behind him as he jumps in, and we wonder....

Page 28. The bullet in the shoulder doesn't slow Vash much. That's a very weird, half-crazy look he's got, gritted teeth and almost grinning....

Page 29. Meryl watches and remembers seeing Vash's memories of violence and death. She wonders if he'll still be able to shoot his borrowed gun. "Vash-san!!"

Page 33. When Marlon tosses Vash his own refurbished gun, it's DOOM for the bad guys. Meryl remembers again her own feelings after shooting someone and screams.

Page 34. All the armoured bad guys are down and out, and Vash takes off the ugly new glasses and he's just Vash again. Love that little panel at the bottom, with Wolfwood flipping out because Vash nicked his Punisher and borrowed parts from it! The sin!

Poor Meryl. She's having such a hard time here, between Vash's memories and her own. Weird that she's still underestimating Vash, though. I would have thought she'd have seen enough from his memories to realise that he's done emotional trauma a time or two before, and it hasn't stopped him shooting yet. I guess she's tying it up too much with her own feelings of guilt and regret.

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tiggymalvern.livejournal.com

It's a pity we don't get more background on the girls. We really know very little about either of them.

yma2.livejournal.com

Oh that's wonderful! It's so nice to see Meryl flashed out a little. And I loved all of Vash in this, again it's that fun, crazy, goofy, gentle yet oddly dangerous side of him which is always so wonderful to see! And that last little panel was just priceless. Bless that poor priest! (:

Meryl's really struggling here emotionally. All the bad stuff with Vash has brought up some unpleasant memories of her own on top of everything else she was dealing with.

Vash in this one looks somewhat crazier than usual. Less of the goofy and more of the genuinely cracked.

sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com

Yes, a nice chapter, still. The nexts issues are more dark, but....at last I will know what happens between vash and Wolfwood!!! >__<
thanks !!

From Max 5 onwards, the whole manga just seems to keep getting darker and darker, with little blips of relief here and there. But it's a long downhill slide overall.

andmydog.livejournal.com

BUG! He's a giant bug! With the buggy eyes and the antennae and BUG! Or possibly Nny after he came back from Hell.

How do I know you've been drinking this evening? XD

Me? I'm the sober. I've just been rereading all of the Alas comics, and my JTHMs, and Vash looks like a bloody big bug!

He does! Really! It's not just me, is it?

Dude, you were the one defending those bloody awful glasses yesterday! XD And honestly, I can't think of too many bugs I'd be as willing to shag....

Defending? No no no... commenting on their effect, yes, but not defending them (believe there was a comment about how his normal glasses are infinately superior, not the least reason being the W hovering at the edge of his line of vision) :D

And, while Vash is utterly shaggable, ManicGrin!Vash is not. It's the grin - the "I's gonna eat you FACE" grin... disturbing, that.

Plus... with the big eyes and the spiky hair he looks, if not like a bug, then definately like Nny, which is also strange and unusual.

I have no patience. Are all the books translated yet? How about now?

I is forbidden! I cannot see the Nny! *sniff*

I'd be pretty much willing to shag Vash as long as he's still got pupils. Unlike Angsty, I draw the line at the lethal version XD. The grin is disturbing, but I like him that way - if he wasn't prone to little moments of flippage, he wouldn't be Vash, he'd just be dull do-gooder hero, and I don't go for those. I like the contrasts in him, the guy who's theoretically against violence but sometimes really enjoys kicking butt. Unpredictability is fun!

Unpredictability is fun! I love Vash when he flips out just as much as when he breaks down and when he goes hysterical and SD flailing (although the ball-with-mouth-suction thing was a tad disturbing)... and yeah, the shots when nobody's home definately have their appeal (I'm with Angsty on that one!)

But you can't see the Nny? Sad! Ah well... this is closer to what I was thinking of anyway. (Bug. Big black bug.)

although the ball-with-mouth-suction thing was a tad disturbing

But think of the possibilities, what with the tongue and all... XD

The Nny is strange, and would be most insulting to Vash if I didn't see what you mean!

And Vash hotness DUDE.

I missed out so much so I wouldn't spoil your upcoming mangagasm. I *love* Vash when he's right on the edge of freaky, and this does it so many ways for me. He goes on for page after page....

where were you for this entire book, Wolfwood?

I think his absence this chapter was not random.

Next chapter, yo.

I can see the page of andymydog, about johnny. Really, Vash doesn't look like a bug....just crazy, nothing more. And Wolfie boy has his own problems, yeah, really bad problems to come....;_;

just crazy, nothing more.

I love the way you say that like it's such a minor thing XD But then we wouldn't love Vash like we do if he wasn't batshit insane half the time!

Yeah!!! XD

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