@Jules I am not sure what you are getting at here. Back when I was in the military my WO taught some of us some Hand to Hand, one of the moves he showed was a disarm. Grab the rifle with one hand and smash in the guys face with the other. Your close enough to do it, I have seen it numerous times.

On this page, Talos grabs the rifle and pushes it up and over, the guy shoots misses obviously, giving Talos more then enough leverage to bring up his other arm to Kill him.

But who am I eh?lol This is just something some of us were taught and I figured I would mention it.

@Drew & @Jules : I’m trained in unarmed combat and melee weapon combat and the move is a valid one but in my experience its better to push with the other hand and break the elbow with a sharp blow up with the other. Disables a limb and usually makes them drop the weapon. (And no I haven’t broken the elbow during practice but a sharp blow does the same effect with less damage)

Either way. Love the comic!

@Donlten you meen like the kick on the previous page?

anyone else think this fight scene is like assasins creed? – all politely queued up single file, although I suppose it shows the racial prejudices but still 3v2 or one at a time: silly mercs 😉

also didn’t mister purple have his knife out on the last page? when/why would he put it away?

The start position of the alien is directly infrom of the gun man. He alien moves does a wing movement, and due to that he moves to the right-his deflection options in this case are his right inner-forearm OR left outer-forearm.
In Ninjutsu is is said, and I share that view, when you strike above your elbow, a deflection with your inner forearm is the fastest. now when he strikes he strikes he moves both the left leg and it arm to deliver a powerfull strike.
my only issue is that he strikes high, and it is not easy to use one hand against 2 irrespective of the strenght ratio, and mostly th hand he uses and the position it ends would mean he had to pass the gun throught his chest and puts himself
in direct line of fire.

Well I suspect that this fella dies and agripa & co, saves his sister and she becomes a fierce supporter of the rebels.

@ Jules Your suggestion makes sense, but that is assuming he’s thinking completely logical. It’s possible he got a bit surprised and froze up, responding with the less than optimal push with the right hand, and better remembered his training after the initial push to continue, unfortunately again less than optimally, striking with his oppposite arm. He’s a mere mortal – they make mistakes, of course!