THE GUN - THE ORIGINAL VERSION
Book 8: The Bridge At Berlin
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This story is unashamedly a tribute/ripoff of the "Commando" comics, the basic story here is that Stealth Force have taken over Berlin, and therefore Germany, and Wolf Force are trying to take it back. Presumably, because the German economy has been buggered up by the EU, Germany would be on the side of Wolf Force during the war. Anyway, The story starts with a convoy of enemy tanks, trucks and even a double decker bus going over a Bridge that leads out of the city (is there really a river somewhere on the edge of the city?). A Wolf Force spy radios in that they are going onto the bridge and a Wolf Force detachment attack the convoy. Two soldiers and a bike right at the front of the convoy get shot, but a tank is behind them and the commander on the top of it opens fire with a heavy machine gun, and doesn't seem to hit anybody. A wolf force soldier fires a mortar at some enemies clinging to the side of the bridge, and they get blown off it, but then the tank fires with its main cannon (the commander says "Zire" instead of "Fire", very witty), and the mortar guy gets taken out. |
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On the second page Gunn finally turns up, riding away from some guys on Skis with propellers on their backs on a motorbike, very James bond-ey. This section is set somewhere snowy (obviously), but where exactly doesn't get explained, though I suppose it could be another part of Germany. The bike he is on is a Wolf Force one, but it isn't one of the cool feet-first ones seen in other stories, in fact it looks like one from the early 70's. He goes "Come on fate, gimmie something to aim at!" before spotting a bus pulling out ahead of him. He shoots the driver of the bus (who is a Stealth Force private, not an ordinary guy). Behind the driver there is a sign saying "Do not shoot driver whilst bus is in motion", ha ha haaa. The bus roars across the road, and one of the Ski guys smashes into it, the other one carries on following Gunn into the yard of a building, which is a Wolf Force base, one of their soldiers jumps out and blows away the second ski guy. |
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Gunn walks into a briefing room and a very hairy commander tells him he has a new mission. He is being shown the bridge, presumably on some computer screen, the commander informs him that Berlin was lost 4 weeks ago, and says he will give Gunn a force of 2000 men to re-take the city. Er, I thought Gunn was only a Sergeant, and surely someone of a higher rank would mastermind re-taking a whole capital city. Plus wouldn't closer to 200,000 men be needed to capture a whole, large modern western city? Maybe the commander means that Gunn will be one of the higher-ranking members of one squad, which is part of a much larger force, going to take over the city. Anyway, now it gets very "Commando", some German stealth force people are watching the wolf force army approaching, one goes "Herr general, Englanders coming!", isn't wolf force an international army, how do you know the entire force is English? (Which it does actually seem to be, by the way), the commander tells them to "Ready the charges", which in a page and a frame's time are revealed to be under the bridge. The wolf force squad start their attack, Gunn shoots a grenade randomly and manages to blow up a burnt out car, while another guy decides it would be better to shoot the enemy soldiers, a Gunner on a tower with a heavy machine gun shouts "Himmel!", whatever that means, the Germans in Commando used to say it all the time. He begins blasting away and blasts bullets right through one wolf force guy, Gunn hides behind a burnt-out bus and deliberates for half a second before blasting the tower with a fireball, despite the fact that the fireballs are tiny, the whole tower catches on fire. Meanwhile the enemy commander activates the charges, as an 'attack bus' comes onto the bridge, this is just a normal single-decker bus, with a guy standing out the middle sunroof with a machine gun, which is a highly silly concept, for a start if someone runs right up to the front of the bus and shot the driver the gunner wouldn't be able to see them, and second its just a stupid concept anyway. Gunn throws a normal hand-held grenade under the bus and it explodes. The charges under the bridge get down to one second and then the timer malfunctions, so the enemy commander decides to fly away in his helicopter, then shoot the bridge with missiles. The terrible artwork shows the missiles getting bigger as they get further away from the helicopter, and also only the very last 'row' of them looks like its going to hit the bridge anyway. Still something hits it because it tips to one side and sinks, causing a tidal wave. The helicopter swoops in, shooting a wolf force guy with really curly hair in the process. Gunn fires a grenade at it, but (I drew this in later) the tidal wave is heading towards him, the reason I drew the tidal wave later was because I made the next page at school, and couldn’t remember how I had finished the previous one XD. Gunn comes around to see feet upside down again, except this time he is in a net being held up by a zombie. But these are the 'super strong beserker' zombies like the one seen in book 1, rather than "Real" zombies, as will be seen in the re-makes. |
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At the Bridge some wolf force soldiers are crossing the river in small boats, for two frames they are drawn with necks and more realistic bodies, in the way that people are drawn in the first issues of Felney. A bullet bounces off the boat at the front, and the guy in it goes "You effing idiot we're British", the shooter goes "Sorry Johnny" ...I cant think why the hell I made that sequence, but I did. When they cross the river a bloke with a Hitler moustache, who seems to be on the side of Wolf Force, is showing the soldiers a cool-looking buggy with a heavy machine gun on it, and mentions he has 20 of them, what, just 'hidden away'? In an occupied city? Well I'm not arguing, it gives the wolf force guys some cool transport XD. |
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Meanwhile, in jail, Gunn finds a bit of glass and cuts the wire to the security camera in his cell. A guard comes in and asks what he did to it, when Gunn throws the bit of glass into his eye, before getting the guard's gun and walking into the hallway, shooting another camera as he goes. Outside one of those buggies stops, and the driver assumes Gunn is in the jail, so bursts in with a minigun. The next frame is one of the goriest moments in The Gun, as he totally fills a guy at the desk with lead, there is blood all over him, silly string blood coming out of him at all angles, drops of blood and bits of skin as well. He falls to the floor with his ribcage exposed, and rats start to eat him (Must have seen South Park around this time too). Gunn is making his way through the jail as well, blowing away a guard with curly hair. |
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Somewhere else in the city, some wolf force guys arrive at a train station, and come under heavy fire, yet another wolf force guy with a Hitler moustache (or is it the same one?) gets blown away with some cool exit wounds. The others take cover behind a truck and start shooting back, taking out one enemy. Gunn arrives at the station and fires in a grenade, taking out the rest, a survivor is laying there with terrible wounds, along with a 'drawn in after' knife and grenade, Gunn points a pistol to him and says "Where's your boss?", the guy says "Here" and Gunn blows his head apart, the reason he had the 'drawn in after' knife and grenade was some young kid at school, where I was drawing this page, thought that blasting an unarmed, wounded guy was too brutal XD. Gunn runs onto the platform and spots the train about to leave, so jumps on the back of it and climbs onto the roof. He gets inside the train, and hides behind some seats as someone else comes into the same carriage as him (they are otherwise empty), the General comes in, with some other guy, and talks with him about getting to the heliport to escape. Outside the train a rooftop battle on some hi-rise buildings can be seen in the distance. |
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At the heliport, one of those 'pointy Chinook' choppers is there, its another stealth force one, maybe both sides have them?. The enemy general walks onto the pad and exchanges salutes with the pilot before they take off. The third guy is left behind, as the 'copter leaves someone calls him on his communicator and says "This is saint nick, merry Christmas" before shooting him, I dunno what the point of that stupid sequence was... Gunn, meanwhile, is in another part of the airport and finds a Wolf Force jet, like the one he had in book 3, he takes of after the chopper and locks his missiles on, he goes to fire but finds there aren't any loaded. But at that moment the chopper is flying over the river, where the bombs on the bridge still haven't gone off. Water gets into the timer and makes it count down the last second. The bombs go off and a HUGE fireball erupts over Berlin, I mean this thing makes a nuke look pansy, for some reason, though, the blast only goes upwards and not outwards, and none of the buildings are destroyed, well, mainly XD. Gunn turns his jet away going "Yippie ki yay", straight out of the Die Hard movies there XD. |
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Back in the streets of Berlin there are scenes of burning Mercedes cars, broken windows and dead people, as well as patrolling wolf Force tanks, the battle is over and Berlin has been won, and Germany has re-joined wolf force. Gunn lands his jet and someone comes running up going "YOU DID IT!", Just keep quiet about the whole "The general died as the result of an amazing coincidence, and I didn't shoot him with missiles, I just never had any loaded" thing, Gunn XD. Gunn meets up with the very hairy commander again, who says he is promoting Gunn to "An officer", what kind of Officer? The lowest officer rank in the British Army is Second Lieutenant, so I'll assume that's what Gunn is now. He later rides on one of those feet-first bikes down to a convoy of Tanks and Trucks driving out of the city. The last frame is terribly drawn, and for some reason there is a line painted on the road with "Limit", indicating the edge of the city, which is just stupid. Gunn rides off into the distance, and book 9, the end! |
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