The Very First Tetsuko Story! - Page 4

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But if Tetsuko hoped that her throw would cause damage (or at least discombobulation) to the robot, she's about to be severely disappointed: some sort of auto-gyro-stabilization device enables the robot to land on its feet. Now it's the robot's turn: its shoulder-mounted turrets fire on the mighty maid! Fortunately, Tetsuko's body proves to be at least as invulnerable as the robot's own.* (Now we get the gawking crowd: if seeing Tetsuko toss this machine across the room was startling, watching bullets richochet off her chest and abs is downright incredible!) But the robot has more tricks up its sleeve: the rifles retract into the shoulder pods, and two multi-barreled weapons (similar to Vulcan cannons) emerge. Tetsuko realizes she'd better be braced for anything... and in the space of a few seconds hundreds of rounds of high-speed ammo blast our heroine!

*I believe I may have been toying, even at this early stage, with the idea that Tetsuko can render herself invulnerable to most injury by "bracing" herself, e.g. flexing all her muscles as hard as she can. Judging by her relatively relaxed stance in panel 3, it's possible I was positing that she was naturally invulnerable to most small-arms fire, and could by "bracing" herself increase her resistance to injury even from machine-gun fire and most explosives.

© 2004 David C. Matthews