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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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03-04-2021, 11:49 PM
J James
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Look at all them handsome lookin' Snow Serpents on that cover.
General Crowther is back. Good character choice from around the same era as the most prominent Faoud storyline. Faoud has a background reboot. Now he's seen as a sympathetic figure instead of an incipient tyrant.
"The complexities of moral imperatives are no simpler to sort out in hindsight as they are in the moment. One person's righteousness is another person's mortal sin, and so the circle of violence continues." This is a great moment of dialogue. One of the strongest lines in the entire series. Except that there IS right and wrong, so some of this sentiment is based on modern moral relativity.
The slowest grenade ever is stopped by the heaviest car door ever. Roadblock is strong enough to push a door off a car from a sitting position and he has sadly lost his 50 cal.
I looked up the Night of Fire and Steel, the Obon Festival. In which the spirits of the dead return. It's a Buddhist festival which lasts for three days. Do we ever see Granny's sliced tattoo again after this? I think not but I'll try and remember to look for it.
To Bombstrike, money is no obstacle.
Cobra Commander is still calling it the "Cobra World Order" not being honest with himself that it's kinda all over. He's lost or given up his cities, the headquarters are all closed, Mindbender keeps reminding him about the financial shortfall problems, and the Astro-Vipers are being used to pilot helicopters.
"Dawn now has the sword known as Morning Light, and that sword will attract Arashikage ninjas to her like moths to a flame." Well, this has somewhat come true. Zartan is being pretty fatalistic though since Larry has probably forgotten about this little foretelling session by now. We can still hope, though.
Wade and family move into Springfield again. This must be the new replacement lifestyle and home for after their house got blown up, if I remember right. The whole family is feeling vengeful.
This stuff will Ellen Bogen and Granny in the back room, carving out a routine for Dawn is pretty good. This is the kind of slow formative growth that could have benefited many other characters who started out young in this series then aged up into some position of responsibility.
Okay I used math to try and figure out which real country Olliestan could be. Bombstrike starts out bargaining for the small box of rounds at $1000 "dinars" and ends up settling for $800 as a final price. So here are the amounts in American dollars that equal $1000 and $800 dinars in these currencies. (If it's only one number then I didn't bother to look up the exchange for the $800 and it's just the $1000).
Kuwaiti dinar
3,302
Bahrain dinar
2,651
Jordanian dinar
1,410
1,128
Tunisian dinar
367
Libyan dinar
225
180
Serbian dinar
10.24
8.19
Algerian dinar
7.49
6.01
So if it's a 50 round box of 9mm I'm going to say that none of these are a good match. Although maybe the prices are wildly inflated from a single man vendor in the middle of the desert, and so Libya makes more sense than Serbia. Best answer is probably that Olliestan is it's own country and we can establish that it's dinar currency value is in between that of Libya and Serbia somewhere.
In the letters page, someone requests an appearance from Tracker. (Did Tracker show up in Snake Hunt? I don't think he did). Larry fields a third complaint about the "Stalker is from Detroit" problem.
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