Fri, 24 May 2013 00:27:54 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185510#Comment_185510 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185510#Comment_185510 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:04:17 -0700 Ariana we're back to FREAKANGELS.

G'morning, Whitechapel. I love costco. I've got a flat of red bull in my fridge -- a flat, really, it's the most beautiful bottom shelf ever -- so I should make it through the day weekend week. How's everyone else? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185511#Comment_185511 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185511#Comment_185511 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:09:33 -0700 mister hex
That Kait's not mental. She's a detective.

Love how the rain started. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185513#Comment_185513 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185513#Comment_185513 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:12:08 -0700 Kradlum
It's Notting Hill carnival this weekend. Going to check out Rico Rodriguez with The Trojans on Sunday and possibly Mick Jones with The Rotten Hill Gang on Monday, depending on how I feel and the weather. Got to decide whether to take a 9 month old baby along, or hope my wife decides to stay at home. Might take him up there for the quiet bit on Sunday, take him home and then head out again. Going to be poor this month as the first payment on my wife's new car is due and the nursery realised they hadn't charged us for the 3 weeks in July when my wife first went back to work, so another £400 to find. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185514#Comment_185514 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185514#Comment_185514 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:12:20 -0700 moali
so good.

hows you? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185515#Comment_185515 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185515#Comment_185515 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:17:09 -0700 hmobius http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185516#Comment_185516 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185516#Comment_185516 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:17:23 -0700 buddharhubarbbutter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185517#Comment_185517 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185517#Comment_185517 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:26:54 -0700 fionchadd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185518#Comment_185518 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185518#Comment_185518 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:38:30 -0700 Gekko
Great setting expected, soaked manhunting in the storm. Paul is gonna have a ball with that environment. Come on Paul, please don't die of exhaustion.

Hello Ariana. I was in Portsmouth this week but I couldn't find a bookstore with Avatar Press in it. Only a Waterstone, yet with Dynamite stuff (so I hope the Avatar books were already sold out there, I hope) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185528#Comment_185528 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185528#Comment_185528 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:07:45 -0700 Contumacy_Singh http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185532#Comment_185532 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185532#Comment_185532 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:29:01 -0700 Professor Imagine
@fionchadd and Gekko: think Mark. he's the storm that's been brewing since episode 1.

and my week has revolved around repeatedly listening to the Ballad of G.I. Joe and laughing my ass off! (at work I keep it cued to 2:45, the Destro and Baroness part. it has become my official celebration music when I make a sale). that's what passes for excitement since my girlfriend's out of town this week. can't wait until she gets back so we can go to out for Mexican again...

also, last night, started my little brother's education in Tarantino history with Reservoir Dogs. he exhibited the appropriate response, so now we know that a) the movie stands up over time, and b) my bro's got decent taste in film. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185539#Comment_185539 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185539#Comment_185539 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:18:29 -0700 remotepush
had short week at work after a week at the edinburgh festival. though knackered today.
was good for me that last week was a skip week, since i wasn't online that week at all.
and good to see new stuff this, good stuff, yum. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185542#Comment_185542 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185542#Comment_185542 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:25:38 -0700 LBA
I hope Kait survives, there's something about someone with a pathological drive for justice that is just so damned sexy! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185549#Comment_185549 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185549#Comment_185549 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:48:25 -0700 LokiZero
Lots of beer and vodka and d&d last night, feeling pretty awesome right now. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185550#Comment_185550 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185550#Comment_185550 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:53:27 -0700 fionchadd
Yeah Mark is the obvious choice, but I dunno...maybe a bit too obvious? It just seems that if he's got all of these powers, he'd maybe be going at this a different way. Who were the guys who attacked in force in boats - quite near the beginning? I remember they'd never attacked in such numbers before, but I don't think that went anywhere further at the time ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185551#Comment_185551 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185551#Comment_185551 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:56:44 -0700 cjtremlett
Looks like storms come in fast in this post-crash world. It's raining here right now, too, but a much gentler rain. It's been alluded to that the crash changed the weather - I wonder how much, and how? Was the flooding from the crash itself, or from fast, intense storms like the one that's hitting now in the comic? Or maybe I just have rain on the brain.

Wonderful stuff as always, folks! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185552#Comment_185552 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185552#Comment_185552 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:07:42 -0700 johnjones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185558#Comment_185558 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185558#Comment_185558 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:01:11 -0700 texture "a storm is coming."

well sombre.

Warrem, Paul - the darkness. BRING IT.

I'm my usual cheery self. Ariana - my advice is, drop some Jaegermeister into one of those Red Bull's, the sun's over the yard-arm. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185565#Comment_185565 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185565#Comment_185565 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:22:07 -0700 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185573#Comment_185573 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185573#Comment_185573 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:39:12 -0700 NoCleverUserName
Happy Birthday? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185575#Comment_185575 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185575#Comment_185575 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:50:43 -0700 Fan
I really admire the way Kait's delegating, too: she's assuming (probably rightly) that Miki, Karl, and this man are all willing and able to help this person (a bit like 'good cop/bad cop').

The wind is picking up: which feels thrilling. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185581#Comment_185581 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185581#Comment_185581 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:20:50 -0700 CorkOnTheFork
Things are alright here, caught in the rut of life as with anyone, but I'm alive and in good health :3 ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185590#Comment_185590 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185590#Comment_185590 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:37:25 -0700 FilmFan
Portsmouth (I'm assuming UK, but I might be wrong) is my neck of the woods, so I will recommend Ian's Books & Comics on Albert Road, Southsea.

They serve all my comics needs, and have plenty of Avatar stuff.

Got Fell in the Waterstones on Commercial Road, though, what did you find? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185592#Comment_185592 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185592#Comment_185592 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:44:48 -0700 kumokasumi
Did catch myself thinking "you know, Kait's got it this week" and then realized that it would be an awkward thing to think when someone was reading your mind. Think there was any sexual tension there at all? No?

Fan - I enjoyed your comments on rehabilitationary justice! Makes a lot of sense in Whitechapel -- interesting contrast to the Boston colony, where I think I remember reading once (something about Scarlet Letter?) that one of the first damn things they did was build a solid jailhouse, though that takes both material resources and staff. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185594#Comment_185594 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185594#Comment_185594 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:49:47 -0700 Berserker
I've been enjoying watching this storm blow in over the past few episodes, and share the feeling that it might not be entirely natural... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185596#Comment_185596 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185596#Comment_185596 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:55:21 -0700 warrenellis What drain...? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185601#Comment_185601 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185601#Comment_185601 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:16:36 -0700 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185612#Comment_185612 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185612#Comment_185612 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:51:13 -0700 Fan Did catch myself thinking "you know, Kait's got it this week" and then realized that it would be an awkward thing to think when someone was reading your mind. Think there was any sexual tension there at all? No?

The amount of midriff that she shows varies a few inches, more or less, sometimes. All of her talking this week was sideways-on or with her back to him (her never standing square-on facing him reminds me of various things including a video of Monty Roberts, that being a technique he uses to attract rather than threaten, when a horse that he's trying to gentle is confined into a lunging ring with him).

There were a couple of subtitles, I thought. When he said, "You know where they got put, right? Back Church Lane?" and she says "Yeah I know.": that's subtitled "Yeah well *now* I know: thanks for thinking of it."

[The other subtitle was when she said, "If she doesn't ... tell her no-one will find her body. Is that clear?": I thought that was subtitled by Mr Hex, saying "Yes, miss."]

I wonder what's behind her facial expression on the first panel of page 3? I read it as shadenfreude (Wikipedia says for what it's worth that "a 2006 experiment suggests that men, but not women, enjoy seeing bad people suffer"). Maybe it's a "shit-eating grin", a convention in a comic to illustrate confidence in one's ability to win a fight. Or maybe it's the chance to be avenging angel, karma's ambassador, without there being any subsequent repercussions/regrets/push-back from the community. Anyway, it looks like some or other pleasure being unleashed, but I don't know which. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185614#Comment_185614 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185614#Comment_185614 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:07:46 -0700 TyphoonCutter
Looks like important shit is about to happen... Whether it's Mark or not, I feel like things have been a bit slow in Whitechapel, so this should be an interesting few weeks. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185617#Comment_185617 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185617#Comment_185617 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:31:14 -0700 fionchadd What drain...?
Awesome ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185619#Comment_185619 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185619#Comment_185619 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:35:51 -0700 warrenellis I feel like things have been a bit slow in Whitechapel

People were getting shot in the legs a second ago! Heh. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185620#Comment_185620 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185620#Comment_185620 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:39:49 -0700 diello Looks like this is... *puts on shades* the calm before the storm.

Also, I hope Luke doesn't drown. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185628#Comment_185628 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185628#Comment_185628 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:45:51 -0700 Derekshepard http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185632#Comment_185632 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185632#Comment_185632 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:16:32 -0700 diello I noticed that too.
You should stick that Here. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185635#Comment_185635 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185635#Comment_185635 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:23:47 -0700 DatDude http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185639#Comment_185639 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185639#Comment_185639 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:38:21 -0700 rickiep00h
The week? Meh. Buggered about, mostly. Added a tiny bit to my shitty novel, applied for a library job. Next week, I'm sure, well be more of the same sort of garbage. Not complaining, just getting tired of eight months of monotony. I don't keep myself busy enough. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185648#Comment_185648 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185648#Comment_185648 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:25:20 -0700 Gekko you're not wrong at all!
Thanks mate, but i'm back in Old Frogland now. But gee, i wish i knew about your Ian's Books & Comics because I slept in a B&B in Granada Road which seems to not be far from this great bookshop of yours. Anyway, I'll be back in Portsmouth one day or another and try that store. Thank you.

About current episode, and Sir pOOh's comment: I'm haunted by that last panel too. I've been reading todayn, been watching my holiday pictures, been to ikea to buy more shelves, but that last panel has kept popping in my head. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185670#Comment_185670 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185670#Comment_185670 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:26:25 -0700 razrangel
It was beautiful watching the wind pick up and tousle their hair then, from one panel to the next - not even a different page! - the rain starts in sheets. lovely! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185680#Comment_185680 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185680#Comment_185680 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:15:27 -0700 James Puckett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185687#Comment_185687 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185687#Comment_185687 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:51:56 -0700 stsparky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185691#Comment_185691 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185691#Comment_185691 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:29:49 -0700 Prof Structure
As for me, it was my last day as head of dept yesterday - all a bit anti-climactic (no weeping or gnashing of teeth, no young women clutching my ankles begging me not to go ...) but the important thing is NO MORE MANAGEMENT MADNESS!!! At least not for the next two years as I indulge in a charity sponsored phil-fest. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185715#Comment_185715 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185715#Comment_185715 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:13:14 -0700 Berserker
And is it just me, or is Luke for some reason not able to bring up a shield the way the other Freakangels do? Over and over again he's getting his face smashed by someone, and never once has he stopped it.

Then again, he's usually not got pants on either, so maybe he just distracted a lot. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185724#Comment_185724 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185724#Comment_185724 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:27:48 -0700 johnjones And is it just me, or is Luke for some reason not able to bring up a shield the way the other Freakangels do? Over and over again he's getting his face smashed by someone, and never once has he stopped it.

Then again, he's usually not got pants on either, so maybe he just distracted a lot.

I think he's more oblivious than distracted. Like Conner has said, he spends too much time in his head. He's busy thinking about what he's going to do and the effects it'll have on somebody else. He's so wrapped up in himself that he doesn't consider what other people are thinking or doing. So he constantly gets surprised when people punch him in his face. Also, I think that Luke believes that the telepathic aspect of the Freakangels package is far superior to the other aspects, so he concentrates his efforts in that area. Which means he's less skilled in the aspects of the package that allow for physical actions and defense. Of course that also means that he's probably really, really good at telepathy. So, if Kirk gives him a chance, Luke could probably devastate or control him telepathically. Really, I'm waiting for the moment when Luke grabs Alice's mind and tells Kirk that he'll make her high-dive off the tower unless Kirk releases him. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185753#Comment_185753 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185753#Comment_185753 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:27:46 -0700 diello What Johnjones said, plus, I think it's easier to block when you can hear the shot before the bullet hits you, rather than at the same time (the other FAs blocked the bullets, but they also had some distance). Not sure why he didn't put up a shield to block further shots, though, since he still had that gun pointed at him. Maybe Luke can only do one thing at a time... like Kirk said... he's busy concentrating on that pain. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185756#Comment_185756 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185756#Comment_185756 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:23:46 -0700 johnjones
From what I saw, the FA's tended to employ shields in advance of being attacked. Figure that unless they enter Static Line, their reaction time are about the same as a regular human. Generally by the time a human hears a gunshot the bullet's either hit him or a second away from doing so. Either way there's not enough time to react. Though I could be wrong. Luke didn't seem to be fearful for Sirkka's safety regarding the mortor attack, though Jack did. Mortors are slower than bullets and Kirk sent a mass-call, so the FAs were able to organize a response. Sirkka actually used her own shield to protect Jack after she noticed people shooting at him.

Though you have to wonder why Luke hasn't simply turned off the nerves in his legs in order to focus his power elsewhere. Perhaps the storm will be a distraction to aid him... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185758#Comment_185758 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185758#Comment_185758 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:04:36 -0700 JP Carpenter Portsmouth (I'm assuming UK, but I might be wrong) is my neck of the woods, so I will recommend Ian's Books & Comics on Albert Road, Southsea.

HAR! Have just moved to Waterlooville, so guess that's now my local comic store.

awesome episode - the art was superb, and the last panel was fantastic. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185773#Comment_185773 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=185773#Comment_185773 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:22:34 -0700 IMCL http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186062#Comment_186062 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186062#Comment_186062 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:41:58 -0700 Dusty668
Also still don't see where Drew carried the dang thing...

Still loving the work and stories! Keep it Rawkkin! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186092#Comment_186092 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186092#Comment_186092 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:01:18 -0700 laurahulett
also, i really do think its mark out there but regardless, i was wondering if we know yet what mark's... forte is, in terms of his freakangel power since everyone has kind of an individually unique stronger skill/purpose they use to generally contribute to the community. i mean, other than his general ability of using people as puppets, killing, and pissing off the other freakangels. i can't remember if a specific skill for mark was previously discussed? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186105#Comment_186105 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186105#Comment_186105 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:34:13 -0700 Professor Imagine
remember, it was only a week ago he sent alice in after the 'angels. then, hot on her heels, the boat attack. it's likely that he expected at least one or two of the clan to get it in those attacks. now he's manipulated the homicide that's keeping kait busy, and I would even be willing to entertain the idea that he's "nudged" luke into breaking The Rule. all of which adds up to the perfect storm that we finally see literally materialize in this episode.

and like alice says on page 6, it's not going away any time soon. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186123#Comment_186123 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186123#Comment_186123 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:20:34 -0700 mister hex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186140#Comment_186140 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186140#Comment_186140 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:09:23 -0700 Berserker
In chapter 41, on page 2, Luke himself makes a statement that implies the 'shields' the Freakangels throw up are almost instinctual - a reflex. A few pages later Kait herself actually curves the trajectory of a bullet that's fired at her back.
Given that, it really does seem odd that Luke has used one at least once so far...

And for the record, if you hear the gun, the bullet has probably missed you - the bullet ALWAYS beats the bang.

@johnjones - I agree with you partially. Luke is probably always thinking about what he's going to do/get away with next. But rather than contemplating the effect that will has on others he's more likely trying to work out how to keep it from having any sort of ramifications on himself later.
And if he does spend a lot of time in his own head, then he's probably really one of the scariest people in Whitechapel, considering what that's done for Arkady, and he seems to know it. I imagine when that's finally revealed we'll all be a bit surprised.

Unless Kirk or the rain kills him here in a bit. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186171#Comment_186171 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186171#Comment_186171 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:39:16 -0700 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186312#Comment_186312 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186312#Comment_186312 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:45:56 -0700 marquezincinerado420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186470#Comment_186470 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186470#Comment_186470 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:49:36 -0700 PatrickBrown http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186589#Comment_186589 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186589#Comment_186589 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:16:12 -0700 Professor Imagine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186625#Comment_186625 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6679&Focus=186625#Comment_186625 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:56:06 -0700 johnjones a bad thing), the storm still functions as foreshadowing. It still sets out the drama that "a storm is coming" even when the metaphorical storm is an actual storm. ]]>