Waiting in line to check in at the ENT for allergy stuff, notice a guy sitting in a chair with a gauze patch over one eye. He notices my shirt (I was going to work after this appointment) and we get to a little small talk. I tell him I work in the manufacturing department, and he asks if our repair group is open for doing repairs.
I tell him they are, look up the number on my phone and give it to him, and ask him what happened. He said he had a round in backwards and it went off, and some shrapnel hit him in the eye. (That's why he was there.)
Alarm bells are going off in my head, but I think I managed to maintain a good customer service outward appearance and tone, as I managed to get more info out of him:
Apparently he loaded the rounds into the magazine backwards, and that's how he managed to chamber one backwards. His idea of resolving the issue was to get something long and poke it down the muzzle to try to knock the round out of the chamber. He probably hit the primer while he was doing that, and that's what caused the ND.
The only thing I can figure is that he was using the wrong caliber. Like, whatever model he had, he was using a caliber smaller than what he should have been using.
I almost feel like we need to edit that Simpsons bit where Groundskeeper Willy is talking about all the great enemies of the Scots, ending with the Scots being their own greatest enemy, but have him be chudbuds and talking about other fedi instances.
The Sandman is really good. There's even an issue that won an award, and that award changed its rules afterward so comics could never be nominated for it ever again.
What I really want to know is what's stopping a magic person from doing something like this to the regular people? Surely someone must have been unhinged and uncaring enough to try something like this in the past. They're people, too, just like the non magic people.
There is, quirk, yes, but less kiddy-show than Zim. (Everyone who knew Vasquez from JTHM was astonished that he got a show in Nickelodeon.)
Going back to Ill Will, I was wondering if he was inspired by Vasquez, and that appears to be the case:
> The [Neurotically Yours] comic book series was created first. It focused solely on Germaine; Foamy only made random comments about the current situation. Germaine's design was noticeably based on Devi D's design from Jhonen Vasquez's comic I Feel Sick, and Mathers admitted she was a source of inspiration.
No, that's from "I Feel Sick: A Book About a Girl" by Jhonen Vasquez. It's kind of a sequel/spinoff/side story of "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" (in the same vein that "Squee!" is - a character that interacted with Nny and survived).
And in case you weren't aware, this is all from the same guy that later brought us Invader Zim.