Chapter 25, Page 41
The following is an excerpt taken from Tashida Kom’s guide, Self-Defense Tactics 101.
Weaponize Everything: The Art of Improvised Combat
Protecting yourself from an attacker means you do not need to follow any kind of “fighter’s etiquette.” Your only goal is defending yourself and surviving.
Using your surroundings for self-defense involves turning everyday items into improvised tools to create space, disorient an attacker, or inflict pain to allow for an escape. Effective, readily available items include keys, pens, flashlights, NetPhones, bags, or heavy objects like fire extinguishers.
Objects such as canes, baseball bats, billiard cues, golf/hockey sticks, umbrellas, crowbars, mops, and brooms can allow you to strike, swing, or thrust at an opponent from a distance. These can be used to attack, defend, or block—all while preventing an assailant from getting close.
Knives, scissors, screwdrivers, broken bottles, razors, and forks are best used in medium-range engagement. To utilize these at maximum effectiveness, techniques such as the straight stab, ice-pick/downwards stab, upward/underhand stab, and the slash should be employed.
Small but heavy objects—billiard balls, NetPhones, glass ash-trays, small statues, books, laptop cases, beer glasses, rocks, etc—can injure an assailant if thrown at them. Aim at your opponent’s face, targeting their eyes, nose or mouth to inflict damage and/or disorient them.
Keys, coins, wristwatches, and similar objects are best used at close distance to strike at the face or other vulnerable areas. Even sand and dirt, which can be thrown or kicked into the attacker’s face may buy you valuable time to either flee or counter with a strike. Hot beverages like tea, coffee, or even perfumes, deodorants, and repellents can be splashed/sprayed in an opponent’s eyes, offering a momentary distraction.
Everything is fair game when it comes to survival and avoiding injury. You may not always be in a situation where an improvised weapon is at hand—but should one be available, it could be an invaluable tool.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
“Use every weapon you have, make any weapon you need”
– Imperial Roman Legionary Maxim.
Nice shot, Madison! Looks like that shook up Nihil. If the shaky legs and blood are any indication, the tide might’ve just turned.
The problem with not being able to feel anything is that you can no longer tell what’s still working in your body when your extremities aren’t doing what they’re supposed to.
Man do I love the reflection in the sunglasses!
Madison must have graduated from the John Wick school of combat.
“I once saw him kill three men in a bar… with a pencil. With a fucking pencil.”
The Joker made a pencil disappear once, the goon saw it going
That’s a magic trick you don’t want to see up close…
Hopefully a fractured skull and concussion will severely limit Nihil’s ability to continue the fight, although we don’t know just how well her gene mods allow her to ignore or even recognize the most severe injuries.
She may be able to ignore the injuries, her body can’t, not forever
Yeah, not feeling pain doesn’t mean she can’t get knocked out or feel dizzy and such.
Madison better double tap her while she’s momentarily stunned.
Madison is gonna introduce Nihil to the sink, quite forcibly I would imagine.
Blunt Force Trama and physical shock is what’s necessary to put down someone who can’t feel pain. Just beat on them until they can’t move anymore. Although, that’s easier said than done.
As for the defensive moves, the overhead downward stabbing motion is probably the easiest to block. Keep your weapon low and use the straight stab or the underhand/upward stab towards the belly. That can still be blocked but not as easily. However, the chance of killing your opponent is higher, as well as you being up on a murder charge.
Nihil’s got to have some serious blurred vision right about now. Smart move on Madison’s part. Toilet tank lids are usually very sturdy and made of porcelain or ceramic. Not something I’d ever want to get hit in the head with.
Well……………….at least she made her bleed. Just wished that she’d successfully give her a total concussion though.
Ever try to control someone on PCP ?
Six of us had our hands full…
And Madison has to worry about being accused of ‘unnecessary force’ IF she wins.
With the judge, jury and executior being someone who’s never been in a fight in their life, let alone fought for their life.
That was a porcelain toilet cover which the relatively thin bone of the skull cannot withstand. Even if she had metal implants in her skull, that’s still going to dent and deform, plus that kind of impact is going to cause the brain to bounce off the bone and cause bruising at the very least. Granted that she’s bleeding and staggering, but she should be going down, probably permanently.
That’s if it hit the head, and not the shoulder
The impact point seems more the shoulder
Yeah, but in the last panel you can see blood on her face coming from her head.
The impact also broke a part of her sunglasses in that 4th panel, so it connected with her face/head.
Yes, just wasn’t a full contact blow to the head
She can still be injured from flying debris, she just can’t feel it
Ooo, cybitch may not feel pain, butt she can still be hurt
Don’t stop Mads, use the bowl next (she could use a drink)
She should not have hit her with the flat, but the edge – axe style. That would have delivered more force, concentrated.
Using half-assed effort delivers half-seed results.
Doesn’t look like it has much of an ‘edge’, plus, Madi was lucky enough to get that blow in at all
Now that the porcelain broke, she has more weapons.
This is why modern prison toilets are one piece stainless steel, dodging chunks of thrown porcelain isn’t always easy.
Just because someone can´t feel pain, does not mean teir bones can´t break.
“When we fight, first we use the rifle. When our bullets are gone we use the bayonet. When the bayonet is broken we use the rifle barrel. When the rifle barrel is broken we use our fists. When our fists are broken we bite.” Old Chinese Army slogan
Believe the translation is off: it’s not the rifle barrel but the butt (or ‘stock’) that is used after the bayonet
A moment later and Dr Belanie might’ve needed some serious medical care of her own.